Do you have enough feed for winter 2016?

whelan2

Hopefully have enough here.

Who2

I've plenty here for a normal winter, but it looks like it's going to get an early start this year.

simx

Yeah have plenty, stuff left over from last year and took an extra 14 ac to have a reserve built up

Icelandicseige

Have some on the ground at the minute because we didn't want to leave it over the winter. But yeah I'd say we have plenty

Mooooo

Should be okay. Going clear in test next week would be a big help. Have bales left over from last year, but quality of pit this year will likely be back, haven't tested yet, so they may go thru it faster. Maize to come in yet

Lady Haywire

Plenty, feeding the stuff that wasn't wilted first, quite wet but decent quality. Followed by the remainder of last years bales & then the good stuff wilted 2 days. First calvers will get some concentrate of sorts, yet to decide on it, might chance those precalver nuts. Or maybe just oats if i feel the silage is good enough.

Hoping to keep them out til mid Nov if possible cause nothing really gets out again til late March/early April.

_Brian

Plenty here, will get it tested when it's open to see how it is, should be ok.

Muckit

Spring 2013 is still clearly etched in many lads heads. See plenty of silage cut in the last week.

Inside my own gate I came close to not saving any silage this year at all but got it thankfully at the end of August.

With the way the weather has come it's a case of save it when you can and feed it when you have to. Calendar farming is out the window.

Mac Taylor

Plenty here thankfully. Had some left over from last year. Got 90 round bales of hay which was a big plus. Should last us a few years

Base price

Have enough here to cover us but I'm hoping to keep the cattle out most of the winter with access to sheds. OH made 87 round bales of silage from a field that got too strong so that is additional to what I mow. Straw and hay is in the sheds.

Reggie.

Maybe the last week has changed things but i reckoned silage was going to be scarce around here this year as so many waited for gay and made it late instead of silage

Lady Haywire

Reggie. wrote: »

Maybe the last week has changed things but i reckoned silage was going to be scarce around here this year as so many waited for gay and made it late instead of silage

:pac:

Mac Taylor

Reggie. wrote: »

Maybe the last week has changed things but i reckoned silage was going to be scarce around here this year as so many waited for gay and made it late instead of silage

Reggie, your banged head is impacting on you or your spell checker doesn't recognise hay:D:D

Limestone Cowboy

Don't have enough of our own but I booked 40 bales bought off our contractor and it should see us through.

Reggie.

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Reggie, your banged head is impacting on you or your spell checker doesn't recognise hay:D:D

Well you did didn't you

larthehar

Best yr we ever had for grass.. still growing strong.. have extra 200 bales to sell i.d say the way things are going..

RedPeppers

It will all depend on turnout date for me next spring but already have fed 40 bales to the milkers that in a normal year I wouldn't have. If its a late spring I'll be very tight I'm hoping the 1st pit of silage lasts well tested and came back at 73% DMD 25% dm so happy with that. Must look at renting a bit of silage ground next year would be great to build up a surplus.

Base price

I saw a lot of baled silage made in the last few days as I travelled around Longford/Cavan/Leitrim. Quality wouldn't be great but it will fill bellies and in most cases the only opportunity to mow as ground conditions became good.
My brother mowed about 6 acres on Thursday and some of it was nearly too dry for bailing on Saturday. A neighbour bought it (per bale) when it was knocked.

kowtow

Muckit wrote:

Spring 2013 is still clearly etched in many lads heads. See plenty of silage cut in the last week.

Still etched in mine, bad winter to inherit a bunch of cows and no silage.

We have enough bales... took a third cut on Thursday of silage ground... wilted 24hrs and came in much drier than I thought.

Still waiting on straw, have some hay up the road if we need it.

Bass Reeves

Expect that I have enough. I am back about 25-30% in bale no's on other years. However I am finishing less cattle this winter and silage is higher DM than last two years. I am easy about buying stores as well. Have only 50% of the cattle that I have had this time last two years. If year and a halfs drop in price I might buy if not I will let someoneelse winter them for me.

KatyMac

I've enough, but out of 16 lads at our KT meetings the other week about 10 of them were very short once we did our calculations. One reasoned he was going to be nearly 400 bales short as he'd gone down with TB - a lot of hoping for a short winter going on here.