fertilizer advice and when are ye spreading silage ground

primary 2

just wondering when will people start spreading on the silage ground? and what type of fertilizer will ye be using, do many people spread cut sward now? also what would people reconmend to spread on old pastures 18 6 12 or pasture sward?

The part time boy

Really depends on what soil index you have . Do you soil test ? Does it get slurry

I spread 2000 gallons of slurry and 4 bags of 21 2.5 5

einn32

Get the soil tested. Then you can form a plan for the soil to get it to a good fertility etc.

stanflt

Silage ground index 2-3s

Jan spread got 3 bags 0-8-25 with sulphur
And a bag of superstart 34% n

Last week another bag of superstart 34%n

And will get a bag of urea 40%n with sulphar next week

Also got 3-4K slurry

99nsr125

2 bags of Urea and
3 bags of 0-7-30 per acre

That's for silage crop take off
Silage fields are rotated and slurry ground also to
reduce compaction, 2 years between Slurry and silage.
So
Year 1 Slurry
Year 2 Graze
Year 3 Graze
Year 4 Silage
Year 5 Graze
Year 6 Graze
Year 7 Slurry and so on

We changed to rotation after some fields
were taking all the hit both with nutrients and compaction

Muckit

Can mop be used now on silage ground? It's 4 for P and index2 for K.

I'm not putting out slurry until after it cut.

Recommendations? 2bags of urea and 2 mop?

Mooooo

3.5k gallons slurry in Jan /Feb, 46 units N out, graze another 3.5k gallons slurry and 3 bags can + S for first cut. Slurry after again and 75 units N+S and maybe 0-7-30 for second cut

Farrell

Mooooo wrote: »

3.5k gallons slurry in Jan /Feb, 46 units N out, graze another 3.5k gallons slurry and 3 bags can + S for first cut. Slurry after again and 75 units N+S and maybe 0-7-30 for second cut

If you're only doing 1 cut, what Fertilizer would you use for grazing?

Count Mondego

Farrell wrote: »

If you're only doing 1 cut, what Fertilizer would you use for grazing?

Usually a bag and a half of 18-6-12

Mooooo

Farrell wrote: »

If you're only doing 1 cut, what Fertilizer would you use for grazing?

If it was only one cut would slurry after the silage and go with with 27 units of N every 3/4weeks or so. Usually do a round of 18.6.12 in that. I'd be stocked high enough was 238kg/ ha last year on the books.

mahoney_j

Farrell wrote: »

If you're only doing 1 cut, what Fertilizer would you use for grazing?

2/2500 glns slurry Jan/Feb .bag urea mid late Feb and 3 *18 6 12 with 5% s around Paddy's day and aim to cut 2/3 week mAy at latest

freedominacup

mahoney_j wrote: »

2/2500 glns slurry Jan/Feb .bag urea mid late Feb and 3 *18 6 12 with 5% s around Paddy's day and aim to cut 2/3 week mAy at latest

That gets it done for you mj? I have something similar done but 10-10-20 instead of 18s. Mine will all have been grazed. I will be going with a 75kg of ASN first week of Apr but was thinking I might need a bit more N?

mahoney_j

freedominacup wrote: »

That gets it done for you mj? I have something similar done but 10-10-20 instead of 18s. Mine will all have been grazed. I will be going with a 75kg of ASN first week of Apr but was thinking I might need a bit more N?

Yep that would be my plan for early silage where quality will always trump bulk .most of my ground index 3/4 and bang on for ph.late may early June silage would get an additional 2 k slurry and bag urea .mop spread across a25% section of farm every back end and 2 more bags 18s spread in July .slurry also added during year

charolais0153

How much p and k does a silage cut take off the land that needs replacing. 8 bales to the acre kind of grass,6/7 weeks growing

Who2

I went with 5k gallons to the acre in mid feb after I got light weanlings to clean it. I've put nothing on it since and I've a nice cover. I was just going to go with 2 bags to the acre of urea this week. Ph at 6.5 average. Ps mostly 3 some 2 and k's at 4. First year doing it this way but do lads think it'll be alright for late May.

mahoney_j

Who2 wrote: »

I went with 5k gallons to the acre in mid feb after I got light weanlings to clean it. I've put nothing on it since and I've a nice cover. I was just going to go with 2 bags to the acre of urea this week. Ph at 6.5 average. Ps mostly 3 some 2 and k's at 4. First year doing it this way but do lads think it'll be alright for late May.

Ok n wise but light on p k and sulphur

larthehar

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Useful document imo..