How's your grass looking?

yellow50HX

Been walking the grass fields over the last few days, nice cover and it's growing well, however the ground is soaked. Only have about 20 of the cows and calves out on grass until it drys up. No point sending the rest out to cut up the place as I still have silage and beet for feeding. This week is supposed to dry up so that will be well needed

moy83

Same as yourself , I'm happy with the grass but land is well wet still . Ideally I'd let them out this week but I'm afraid they would get messy if we get a bad day .
Ill let a few out at the weekend I think if its dry all this week

KatyMac

Likewise. the grass is actually growing but the fields are awful soft. You can see your breath outside this evening.

Reggie.

Yeah good covers here and ground is damp but a few days of wind will cure that. Hope to have cattle out this sat if the weather stays dry like it's supposed to

bbam

Grass cover is nice enough here, last 7 days made a great growth, but ground very soft... Have stock out but ground definitely could do with being drier !!

Farrell

Bit of a difference to last year, good cover possibly too good

blue5000

It's green anyway, not like this time last year:pac::pac:

Often had more of it this day of the year though. I see a huge difference in newly re-seeded ground, also any where that got slurry has responded well. Land is a bit wet still in places, but able to do a bit of ploughing today and OH was able to drive into stubbles with the car to collect me this evening.

moy83

blue5000 wrote: »

It's green anyway, not like this time last year:pac::pac:

Often had more of it this day of the year though. I see a huge difference in newly re-seeded ground, also any where that got slurry has responded well. Land is a bit wet still in places, but able to do a bit of ploughing today and OH was able to drive into stubbles with the car to collect me this evening.

Was she able to drive out again though ? :P

blue5000

Ya no bother.

Reggie.

moy83 wrote: »

Was she able to drive out again though ? :P

That's the clincher

Timmaay

I'll go out and finish the grass walk tomorrow, but I'd guess we are well into the 50s with growth this week. I'm 1/2 thinking of taking out another field for silage and bumping up the SR even further, as some strong paddocks are still too wet to graze. The cows had to walk through a wet patch to get to a nice dry field they were grazing last two days, it utterly bucketed rain yesterday, and I totally beached the quad in the wet patch, it had turned into a ft of soup ha. Still once the farm dries up I'll be laughing.

Reggie.

Timmaay wrote: »

I'll go out and finish the grass walk tomorrow, but I'd guess we are well into the 50s with growth this week. I'm 1/2 thinking of taking out another field for silage and bumping up the SR even further, as some strong paddocks are still too wet to graze.

You can never have enough silage. You could be damn glad of it this time next year

Timmaay

Reggie. wrote: »

You can never have enough silage. You could be damn glad of it this time next year

Yeh would be nice to build up a rolling stock of 150 bales for droughts etc. I'm hoping to leave 50ton or so of silage in the pit from last summer, which would be good going considering how little silage we made last year with the drought, very poor 2nd cut and no 3rd.

Reggie.

Timmaay wrote: »

Yeh would be nice to build up a rolling stock of 150 bales for droughts etc. I'm hoping to leave 50ton or so of silage in the pit from last summer, which would be good going considering how little silage we made last year with the drought, very poor 2nd cut and no 3rd.

Well while the sun is shining and all that

jack o shea

lads there was a never a drought in this country for gods sake!!!

frazzledhome

jack o shea wrote: »

lads there was a never a drought in this country for gods sake!!!

May, July and Sept 2013 that's 3 in the last year

Martina82

Somebody used this as a chat up line on me before

Reggie.

Martina82 wrote: »

Somebody used this as a chat up line on me before

Oh lord

jack o shea

a few days without rain would you cop on to yourself, a drought is what they get in australia when it doesnt rain for a year and cattle die in the field from no water or feed and the farmers commit suicide, laughable for anyone to even mention the word in this country we have never went more than 2 weeks without rain.

frazzledhome

jack o shea wrote: »

a few days without rain would you cop on to yourself, a drought is what they get in australia when it doesnt rain for a year and cattle die in the field from no water or feed and the farmers commit suicide, laughable for anyone to even mention the word in this country we have never went more than 2 weeks without rain.

Does this mean you'll stop going on about the rain as I've seen nobody building an Ark yet

jack o shea

i hope we get what would be called a decent summer in other countries, like 1995,theres enough moisture in the ground in this country to last us till xmas day.

Timmaay

Ya can call last July and Sept whatever you like, glorious sunny days, I don't care, simple as is grass growth was zero, the cows ain't going to survive on fresh air so a rolling stock of fodder is almost vital.

jack o shea

exactly tim sure feeding out a few bales while the sun is shining aint hardship when you consider 2012 and everything back in on concrete and the land is scutter.there seems to be a few on here who are lucky to be on dry land but for most of us we dont want rain only the odd time.