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Gran Lime after Slurry

  • 22-04-2015 9:02pm
    #1
    TPF2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭


    Hi, was looking for information on any issues with applying gran lime after slurry. I could find info on ground lime, I believe a week interval is required after slurry before you can put out ground lime, but not sure about Gran lime?


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  • #2
    Connemara Farmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭Connemara Farmer


    Gran lime is lime too, one week would be my vote.


  • #3
    onyerbikepat
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    TPF2012 wrote: »
    Hi, was looking for information on any issues with applying gran lime after slurry. I could find info on ground lime, I believe a week interval is required after slurry before you can put out ground lime, but not sure about Gran lime?

    GranLime and ordinary ground limestone are essentially the same thing. Granlime if just ground finer and so gets to work quicker.... but you have to pay for the fancy packaging.


  • #4
    tanko
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    onyerbikepat wrote: »
    GranLime and ordinary ground limestone are essentially the same thing. Granlime if just ground finer and so gets to work quicker.... but you have to pay for the fancy packaging.

    How soon after putting on gran lime can you cut silage off a field?


  • #5
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    tanko wrote: »
    How soon after putting on gran lime can you cut silage off a field?

    I reckon you're still better to put it out after the silage is cut.


  • #6
    TPF2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭TPF2012


    Thanks for the replies. Will wait for now till next week for gran lime, hope doesn't rain too much. On slight side note, I just went through the figures for NPK recommended application rate that Teagasc has up on their website. For my silage ground and one of the pasture fields, taking into account approx 20,000 gallons of slurry I generate, to apply the recommended rate of NPK from chemical fertiliser, would cost approx €100/acre. Nowhere near that here- extensive suckler operation, but would that kind of spend on fertiliser be normal enough?


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