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How to plan your grass ahead??

  • 16-07-2014 10:20am
    #1
    farmers101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭


    Hi everyone, any tips on how to plan my grass for next spring, as I'm going to be lambing after Xmas, and want to finish the lambs ASAP them. How would I plan to max my amount of grass for them? Eg wen to spread fertiliser an what fert? Etc?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    ganmo
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    Best tip I can give you is look up advice given to dairy lads about closing paddocks in the autumn.
    It's all about getting the balance of not leaving too much grass on them so it rots in but enough so that it's not damaged by the elements.


  • #3
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    farmers101 wrote: »
    Hi everyone, any tips on how to plan my grass for next spring, as I'm going to be lambing after Xmas, and want to finish the lambs ASAP them. How would I plan to max my amount of grass for them? Eg wen to spread fertiliser an what fert? Etc?

    Thanks

    As gammo said, close up paddocks in time.

    If new reseeds, I would say close em for 3 months, if older pasture you might want to leave it a bit longer. Close em up in the order you want to graze em in next spring. (Close up the nice sheltery one first, that the small lambs will go into first, etc) don't graze em to the bone either as you close em, leave a small bit of grass to 'grow more grass' as they say...

    Get a soil sample for fertiliser, I found I was lacking in P, and one bag of 0-16-0 / acre made a savage difference to paddocks in terms of early spring growth.

    I don't really spread much in the way of dung, but I woul imagine putting the dung out on paddocks as you close em would be good, as twould have the 3 months to work away.

    I assume you have paddocks, and can move the ewes on after a bit, so the paddocks can start growing a bit of grass again.


  • #4
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Any else finding their grass supplies tightening up a good bit ? The dry weather has reduced my supplies down significantly. Could do with some rain


  • #5
    Cran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Cran


    Green farmer wrote: »
    Any else finding their grass supplies tightening up a good bit ? The dry weather has reduced my supplies down significantly. Could do with some rain

    Growth has defo reduced over past week, but I've never had as much grass as this year. Combination of additional land which only got in May that I didn't get a chance to stock correctly for and brillant growth rates.
    Have a walk here in couple of weeks and one topic is grass management, advisor picked perfect year to show how not to do it :o


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