best time to spread slurry

viztopia

As the title says when is the best time in the spring to spread slurry? If it was spread this week is there a chance that it would be a waste of time because of frost or rain washing it all away?

tanko

viztopia wrote: »

As the title says when is the best time in the spring to spread slurry? If it was spread this week is there a chance that it would be a waste of time because of frost or rain washing it all away?

If you are lucky enough to be able to get slurry out this week I'd be lashing it out. It's an ideal time to be spreading it.

Miname

Just before it hits the top of the slats would be ideal.

get a room

Im not a farmer so i couldent possibly advise, but around here, the farmers seem to spread it
1. when our windows are open.
2. when theres clothes on the line
3. when im sitting in the garden,

So all I can say is watch what your neighbours are doing. If they are enjoying their garden thats the time to spread.

djmc

Can't beat living in the countryside
Wake early in the morning with the birds singing the sun shining and the sweet smell of pigs ****e in the air.

frazzledhome

get a room wrote: »

Im not a farmer so i couldent possibly advise, but around here, the farmers seem to spread it
1. when our windows are open.
2. when theres clothes on the line
3. when im sitting in the garden,

So all I can say is watch what your neighbours are doing. If they are enjoying their garden thats the time to spread.

Lol

frazzledhome

Tanking slurry today. 2500 gals per acre
This and autumn is the time to get best bang for your buck

Limestone Cowboy

get a room wrote: »

Im not a farmer so i couldent possibly advise, but around here, the farmers seem to spread it
1. when our windows are open.
2. when theres clothes on the line
3. when im sitting in the garden,

So all I can say is watch what your neighbours are doing. If they are enjoying their garden thats the time to spread.

It's a bit of a coincidence you wouldn't be doing any of those 3 things if it was lashing rain maybe?

get a room

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

It's a bit of a coincidence you wouldn't be doing any of those 3 things if it was lashing rain maybe?

Yes were a very healthy family

blue5000

viztopia wrote: »

As the title says when is the best time in the spring to spread slurry? If it was spread this week is there a chance that it would be a waste of time because of frost or rain washing it all away?

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patsy_mccabe

get a room wrote: »

Im not a farmer so i couldent possibly advise, but around here, the farmers seem to spread it
1. when our windows are open.
2. when theres clothes on the line
3. when im sitting in the garden,

So all I can say is watch what your neighbours are doing. If they are enjoying their garden thats the time to spread.

Musthavanegg

Some of these boys literally don't give a shi.......My understanding of Slurry spreading is that it's normally done in fine weather by driving up and down the field with a low trajectory splash plate. Well yesterday while driving on the N24 outside Cahir this boy with his big tractor and Slurry tanker was actually driving along the main road and firing the Slurry up in the air over the ditch because the field itself was water logged and too soft to drive on with such a machine.
Don't know if this is permitted or not but one very unhappy lady living there filmed and reported it.

keep going

Musthavanegg wrote: »

Some of these boys literally don't give a shi.......My understanding of Slurry spreading is that it's normally done in fine weather by driving up and down the field with a low trajectory splash plate. Well yesterday while driving on the N24 outside Cahir this boy with his big tractor and Slurry tanker was actually driving along the main road and firing the Slurry up in the air over the ditch because the field itself was water logged and too soft to drive on with such a machine.
Don't know if this is permitted or not but one very unhappy lady living there filmed and reported it.

Ah thats not fair fellas do give a **** , in fact they, d give you loads of it at the moment.

Shannon757

Musthavanegg wrote: »

Some of these boys literally don't give a shi.......My understanding of Slurry spreading is that it's normally done in fine weather by driving up and down the field with a low trajectory splash plate. Well yesterday while driving on the N24 outside Cahir this boy with his big tractor and Slurry tanker was actually driving along the main road and firing the Slurry up in the air over the ditch because the field itself was water logged and too soft to drive on with such a machine.
Don't know if this is permitted or not but one very unhappy lady living there filmed and reported it.

A rain gun? Illegal?

jfh

was hoping to get slurry out in the next couple of day on a silage field that been grazed. we're promised some heavy rain the weekend, would that matter should i hold off until afterwards?

Bass Reeves

The ideal time to spread slurry is in misty weather or before light rain. It really depends on how heavy the rain you get. If you get lightish rain for first hour this will wash in nitrogen. Rain will wash the N in the slurry into the ground and increase the N that you get from the slurry.

The danger with heavy flash rain is that it will wash the N away along the surface of the ground. At present good ground will soak the slurry. I use a weather forecast that gives forecasts for ports and airports as well as city's.

http://www.weather-forecast.com/

It is usually fairy accurate. For my area it is Friday night when the rain is arriving. I be happy to spread slurry until Wednesday evening from the forecast, If it was not spread by then you get a more detailed forecast from looking at weather maps and if it looked like first of the rain was light I consider spreading Thursday.

You can get serious N uptake in the spring after misty or showery weather it can hit 20 units/100 gallons I think. That is worth 10 euro I be spreading at the moment if it suited.

jfh

Thanks bass, thourough answer