will you have enough fodder for winter?

whelan1

yes another poll:o

RaggyDays

Plenty with a surplus that will be kept from now on.
Expensive lesson learnt thank you

td5man

Plenty done plus whole crop and 1 months of silage left over from last year.

whelan1

my da was at a funeral today was talking with a local farmer, my dad was saying he never saw so much grass on our farm at this time of year as this year, other farmer said he is feeding this last 3 weeks, no growth and wont have enough feed for the winter:eek:

Viewtodiefor

whelan1 wrote: »

my da was at a funeral today was talking with a local farmer, my dad was saying he never saw so much grass on our farm at this time of year as this year, other farmer said he is feeding this last 3 weeks, no growth and wont have enough feed for the winter:eek:

Can't beat those wetter fields this year Whelan!

whelan1

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Can't beat those wetter fields this year Whelan!

had enough hardship last year and this spring, still paying for it:mad:

hoseman

Will have as I will offload some cattle in the next 2 wks plus I have a good grass wedge of quality due to taking out paddocks for bales also due to a better summer,but it was really down to pure luck!!!

kevthegaff

whelan1 wrote: »

had enough hardship last year and this spring, still paying for it:mad:

same meself, lots of bills from last year due to s""t silage. Lots of good quality stuff this year and ill have to buy 50-100 bales off my neighbour as i get them off him every year so should have enough till April:)

moy83

I voted yes and I hope I'm right . We will be carrying about twenty less than last winter and at the moment we have heaps of grass , its growing aswell now as it did most of the summer .
If the weather turned bad now and stayed that way things wouldnt be long changing though and if next spring is like this one alot of people will be in trouble again I'd say .
Silage isnt in abundance still on alot of farms and couldnt be considering last year

yellow50HX

Well that depends on how long winter lasts?

Have 6ac of beet, 300 silage bales and about 100 straw bales and a bit of hay. That should be more then enough most years.

jersey101

Im not too sure yet. I have 12 acres of forage rape sown about a month and it needs rain if it gets it i will be okay. I walked it today and it looks like its starting to move. It got fert 2 weeks ago and its still on the ground

delaval

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Can't beat those wetter fields this year Whelan!

Sheep must be good for grass

jersey101

Be right craic now if we get a good spring and we wont need half the silage we have

mahoney_j

jersey101 wrote: »

Be right craic now if we get a good spring and we wont need half the silage we have

It's Money in the bank though jersey ,I'd prefer be looking at a heap of bales or a pit of silage next march than looking for it and having to pay through the nose for it.

Timmaay

Agreed fully, the 6yr old pit silage that we ended up feeding this year was preserved very well. Moving forward I hope to be able to carry at least a month extra of silage. And from contrasting this year to last year, we need it moreso in dry years. I'll be throwing up a new silage pit next year, and I'll be leaving it plenty big enough!

Actually crazy to think that last May, when there wasn't a bale in the country, I was debating weather I should push on with the fertiliser and try get a bumper crop of silage, in a normal year we'd have well enough for a 6month winter (never needed here), whatever extra I'd be selling on. With the drought there was never a chance of that happening, but on hindsight I could have struggled to sell it on anyways!

blue5000

Am in the 'don't know' category, will know more this time tomorrow, mowed 14 acres fri and sat, still spreading N behind the cows, making the most of it for another week. Then a bit of slurry on ground that will be grazed in feb. I hear that NZ expert is predicting a white December. :eek:

Timmaay

blue5000 wrote: »

I hear that NZ expert is predicting a white December. :eek:

Here or in NZ :cool: Would be good for us if they got snow in the middle of their summer!

TEAT SQUEEZER

whelan1 wrote: »

yes another poll:o

havent seen as many polls since the building boom:)

td5man

TEAT SQUEEZER wrote: »

havent seen as many polls since the building boom:)

Maybe its a sign of an upturn in the economy.

bob charles

im in the no camp, have less than months feed in the yard so far, have way too much of winters grub eaten during the summer, but I aint worried

Sharpshooter82

mahoney_j wrote: »

It's Money in the bank though jersey ,I'd prefer be looking at a heap of bales or a pit of silage next march than looking for it and having to pay through the nose for it.

enough of that done earlier this year

Sharpshooter82

blue5000 wrote: »

I hear that NZ expert is predicting a white December. :eek:

cant see it once there isnt a major change in the rainfall levels from now till winter

Sam Kade

blue5000 wrote: »

I hear that NZ expert is predicting a white December. :eek:

Do you still believe in him?

whitebriar

blue5000 wrote: »

. I hear that NZ expert is predicting a white December. :eek:

He has been shown to be wrong over on the weather forum,where people have the stats to challenge him,that I've lost count.
Latest was 2 weeks ago when he said there would be no more warm weather...
Saturday it was 24c in Cork and Dublin.
Last night it was 18c in valentia at midnight.
Right now its 16c here in Wickliw at 630am.

I've more 2nd and 3rd cut than ever this year,that's my concern,but foods food I suppose,I'm happy with the quantity

whelan1

Sam Kade wrote: »

Do you still believe in him?

he was fairly accurate up til a few weeks ago, think its all gone to his head now, any word from the postie from donegal?

td5man

Nice morning here now hopefully it stays that way discussion group today dont want to get wet .

simx

td5man wrote: »

Nice morning here now hopefully it stays that way discussion group today dont want to get wet .

Hosted my one there 2 weeks ago, good day and all went well and have mune done so happy about that too

reilig

whelan1 wrote: »

any word from the postie from donegal?

He has a parcel for you that won't fit through the letter box

I honestly don't think he has a clue.

Timmaay

td5man wrote: »

Nice morning here now hopefully it stays that way discussion group today dont want to get wet .

Lovely damp day here, keep it coming, its all badly needed, I don't give a sh#te if I get wet!

td5man

simx wrote: »

Hosted my one there 2 weeks ago, good day and all went well and have mune done so happy about that too

hopefully I will get didn't miss one yet , 3 cows going to calve oh can usually manage but after her accident last week she s still a bit afraid.

bbam

reilig wrote: »

He has a parcel for you that won't fit through the letter box

I honestly don't think he has a clue.

I'd be with you on that..
I feel embarressed for him when he's on the radio as he doesn't seem to relaise he's on as a bit of a skit rather than anything serious...

whitebriar

whelan1 wrote: »

he was fairly accurate up til a few weeks ago, think its all gone to his head now, any word from the postie from donegal?

No he wasn't.Its easy to say it will be fine in July (unless it was last year) and that there'll be frost in November lol...Basically he charges people for to supply them with broad statements like that.
He started posting on the weather forum on boards here and he has been caught out many many times .Temps were according to him for example to be back in the 30's for the last 2 weeks of August.
To quote Evelyn Cusack on the ray Darcy show 'Ah..ya didn't have him on did ya..you know he uses astrology don't you?'
I'm Taurus by the way.

keep going

Have plenty here and not looking like start feeding silage until December. Caterpillars have started working the beet but still a finecrop.ken is a bit like god-if you believe him he is always right , but if you dont he uis always wrong

grazeaway

keep going wrote: »

Have plenty here and not looking like start feeding silage until December. Caterpillars have started working the beet but still a finecrop.ken is a bit like god-if you believe him he is always right , but if you dont he uis always wrong

yeah for me lionel messi is always right

bogman_bass

grazeaway wrote: »

yeah for me lionel messi is always right

what sort of forcast is he giving?:D