Dairy chit chat II

GrasstoMilk

Is it too late to spray ragweed?

Gawddawggonnit

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Stopped raining just now.
On cue a neighbor rings asking for the telescopic to load fert...that should be fun. Land is totally sodden. Madness spreading it really.

I’ll post pics of a tractor and fert spreader buried to the oxters.

Ammm...bit of a job to bury this.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Ammm...bit of a job to bury this.

Is that a challenge? :P

Waffletraktor

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Ammm...bit of a job to bury this.

Auto greaser on loader?

Gawddawggonnit

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Auto greaser on loader?

Yep. For sale, if you know anyone interested...
1200hrs, needs tyres, July 16 reg and one careful owner!

Gawddawggonnit

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Is it too late to spray ragweed?

No.

Gawddawggonnit

Timmaay wrote: »

Assuming you are in the suitable area (southeast ideally), have the suitable dry sunny sheltered field, and can feed it out easy enough, then it's a good way to help build back up fodder reserves, grass silage is hard to compete against getting the likes of 20ton+ of maize out of the same field.

20ton+ ??
South east France?

Gawddawggonnit

Got him to spread 200ha of winter rye/crimson clover, cover crop mix with 10-0-0-24S. At €9/ha I couldn’t go wrong.

The machine is a 4cyl 170hp Mercedes engine, fully hydrostatic and is made for ski slopes.
He works between 23-25kmh at 36m and covers between 25 and 30ha per hour.

Panch18

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Got him to spread 200ha of winter rye/crimson clover, cover crop mix with 10-0-0-24S. At €9/ha I couldn’t go wrong.

The machine is a 4cyl 170hp Mercedes engine, fully hydrostatic and is made for ski slopes.
He works between 23-25kmh at 36m and covers between 25 and 30ha per hour.

holy crap that's some output

Does he have extra wide tramlines for the tracks or just accept any damage that happens?

whelan2

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Is it too late to spray ragweed?

Once there's no frost forecast work away

GrasstoMilk

whelan2 wrote: »

Once there's no frost forecast work away

What's the spray for them?

whelan2

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

What's the spray for them?

We used d50. Didnt spray yet this year as land is too wet. There are other sprays .

Mooooo

Have contractor booked to come if it's dry any day to spray as well. A lot of docks shooting up as well would the d50 knocked them as well?

whelan2

whelan2 wrote: »

We used d50. Didnt spray yet this year as land is too wet. There are other sprays .

We used it for thistles and ragwort

Waffletraktor

Panch18 wrote: »

holy crap that's some output

Does he have extra wide tramlines for the tracks or just accept any damage that happens?

Running 650 wide tyres at 36m leaves more cropped area than standard 380/420's on 24m tramlines.

Neddyusa

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Got him to spread 200ha of winter rye/crimson clover, cover crop mix with 10-0-0-24S. At €9/ha I couldn’t go wrong.

The machine is a 4cyl 170hp Mercedes engine, fully hydrostatic and is made for ski slopes.
He works between 23-25kmh at 36m and covers between 25 and 30ha per hour.

Nice - what's the capacity of that spreader?

straight

3 the square wrote: »

Anyone thinking of switching from urea to pasture sward with sulphur on the grazeing ground with fine weather coming ??

I put out 2 ton of pasture sward before Easter. Getting a good response from it.

Burning Tires

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Yep. For sale, if you know anyone interested...
1200hrs, needs tyres, July 16 reg and one careful owner!

A careful owner... but 2 lunatics driving it

kowtow

Gawddawggonnit wrote:

The machine is a 4cyl 170hp Mercedes engine, fully hydrostatic and is made for ski slopes. He works between 23-25kmh at 36m and covers between 25 and 30ha per hour.

It's a kassbohrer more or less isn't it?

Water John

You can spray the ragwort, at this time, but you'll lose any clover. That was my experience last year.

Mooooo

Water John wrote: »

You can spray the ragwort, at this time, but you'll lose any clover. That was my experience last year.

No harm

Water John

Have a family member who'll be delighted to hear you, say that. But then for him, it's business!!!

charolais0153

Mooooo wrote: »

No harm

Cant beat a good monoculture:rolleyes:

Mooooo

charolais0153 wrote: »

Cant beat a good monoculture:rolleyes:

Clover down here only leads to cut up paddocks in spring and weeds in summer. Not enough cover in shoulders

GrasstoMilk

Mooooo wrote: »

Clover down here only leads to cut up paddocks in spring and weeds in summer. Not enough cover in shoulders

I think I'd prefer no clover over clover and ragweed in my silage

whelan2

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

I think I'd prefer no clover over clover and ragweed in my silage

Just make sure they die properly.

freedominacup

whelan2 wrote: »

Just make sure they die properly.

You might have to resort to one of these.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQNYPYFq1c

Mooooo

Had very few night time calving last year id say this year half em have been at night. Lad working with me 3 days aweek and he has only seen about 5 calves born

yosemitesam1

Mooooo wrote: »

Clover down here only leads to cut up paddocks in spring and weeds in summer. Not enough cover in shoulders

I wonder if a moderate amount of red clover could be maintained cost effectively, mightn't choke the grass as much but still give some benefit

K.G.

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Not exactly.
Maize price has risen fairly sharply and dragged barley price with it. Looks like yank farmers might plant more soya than corn.
It’s going on 6yrs of dirt cheap feeds also and commodity cycles usually turn on years 7-8...

It’s only my opinion btw.

sometimes you are a right pain in the arse but every so often you throw a little nugget like this that gets me thinking.