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Spreading fertiliser in October?!

  • 08-10-2015 9:58pm
    #1
    farmers101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭


    Is spreading fertiliser any addition at the minute(October), will it grow grass? Or is it to late?

    What would be the best to spread?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    farmers101 wrote: »
    Is spreading fertiliser any addition at the minute(October), will it grow grass? Or is it to late?

    What would be the best to spread?
    Thanks

    Closing date was sep 15th. Only allowed spread potash and lime now. Pointless this late in the year goin with n anyway as long nights and temp drops. If ph is an issue lime would be beneficial. Best for now would be slurry or fym. Closing dates slurry is oct 15th. Grass growth this time of year depends on temp really.
    If you allocate grass based on a certain area each day between now and when you will be housing and don't go over the area allocated once it's grazed it may allow you to build a bit of a cover to get out early in spring


  • #3
    greenfield21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭greenfield21


    U can only spread lime or k fertiliser now, the 14th sept was the deadline. The N value in slurry increases when spread in autumn so its probably your best option. The cold nights are beginning to slow growth down fast though.


  • #4
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    Nitrogen would of got a great response well after these daft dates this year.. Then the experts know it all. Ground is warm and dry now. Interesting to see what it will be like in February.


  • #5
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Willfarman wrote: »
    Nitrogen would of got a great response well after these daft dates this year.. Then the experts know it all. Ground is warm and dry now. Interesting to see what it will be like in February.

    It'll be cold and waterlogged in February but shur we'll be allowed spread away then


  • #6
    Sacrolyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 877 ✭✭✭Sacrolyte


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    It'll be cold and waterlogged in February but shur we'll be allowed spread away then

    It's crazy.


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  • #7
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    The slurry deadline is the craziest if all, unless you spread it before heavy rain it isn't going anywhere other than in the topsoil. Any water that will soak through will be filtered so much passing through the bedrock that it'll be fit to drink by the time it reaches under ground streams. Before that nonsense came in there were farmers on drier land with only 1/3 of the slurry storage they have now and they worked away fine.


  • #8
    shepherd41
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭shepherd41


    The slurry deadline is the most unfair, unnecessary piece of bureaucracy ever to come out of the EU. It has caused significant financial hardship to farmers and there is no evidence that pollution is less now than prior to this ludicrous rule. We've now had years of unseasonable weather in all seasons - wetter springs and summers and cold dry periods during the closed period in autumn and winter. Most alarmingly (and this really needs to be examined) has there been a marked increase in slurry related accidents/fatalities as farmers, many who are part time, struggle to abide by deadlines? Certainly in the north this seems to be the case. On the home farm, a little and often approach to slurry spreading worked perfectly for farmer and the environment. I think now is the time to push the farmers unions, North and south of the border, to lobby Brussels hard to reverse this rule. Farmers know their land and certainly know the weather suitable for spreading slurry - please give us a chance to show that we can act responsibly.


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