Cold for Fertilising?

Western Pomise

Only ever put out one go of fertiliser each Spring,ground just trafficable now,very cool last few days.Would it be as well to wait till temps increase a bit to put out fertiliser (18:6:12)?.... or just get it out?

What are growth rates like at the mo?....feck all growth here at mo(Mayo).

White Clover

Western Pomise wrote: »

Only ever put out one go of fertiliser each Spring,ground just trafficable now,very cool last few days.Would it be as well to wait till temps increase a bit to put out fertiliser (18:6:12)?.... or just get it out?

What are growth rates like at the mo?....feck all growth here at mo(Mayo).

Get it out. It's of no use in the bag.

Dunedin

White Clover wrote: »

Get it out. It's of no use in the bag.

+1

lab man

I'm in clare an went out with some today going again tmrw with more and as luck will have it water pump goes in the main tractor , jeebus! Worried that it's too cold though but I've no grass at all..

ganmo

Once the ground is above 7 degrees and ground is trafficable get it spread

Wildsurfer

Ah lads come on. It's nearly the middle of April will ye get the fertilizer out. Next thing it'll rain and ye'll say its too wet again! Grass is obviously growing, there's lads have grass cut for bales near me. Ye probably have the lawns cut? Growth rate of 50 here last week but wouldn't have that if I'd left fertilizer in the bag.

lab man

Well u must have good land my home place a snipe wouldn't walk it . An I can't keep bales delivered!

Western Pomise

Suppose I don't want to 'waste' the stuff...it's too dear for that,hope to get some out from Thursday on.

lab man

At 750 a pallet

ganmo

lab man wrote: »

Well u must have good land my home place a snipe wouldn't walk it . An I can't keep bales delivered!

Flip!
I'm wondering will I be able to cut the amount of silage I'll make this year.

yewtree

Western Pomise wrote: »

Only ever put out one go of fertiliser each Spring,ground just trafficable now,very cool last few days.Would it be as well to wait till temps increase a bit to put out fertiliser (18:6:12)?.... or just get it out?

What are growth rates like at the mo?....feck all growth here at mo(Mayo).

Farning in mayo aswell have 90 units of Nitrogen on about 20% of the farm and 70 units on the rest. Most of the silage fertiliser is out aswell.
Growth rates are good grew 40 last week. Cows are 4 days into second rotation.

charolais0153

yewtree wrote: »

Farning in mayo aswell have 90 units of Nitrogen on about 20% of the farm and 70 units on the rest. Most of the silage fertiliser is out aswell.
Growth rates are good grew 40 last week. Cows are 4 days into second rotation.

Mayos a big county...

yewtree

charolais0153 wrote: »

Mayos a big county...

Very true but we could be farming beside each other aswell.
In fairness soil type has a bigger effect than location and there are some very difficult soils in mayo.

Limestone Cowboy

Put it out a fortnight ago on some of our ground in North/west Clare and its growing mighty now. Sorry I hadn't a bit more ground covered to be honest.

charolais0153

yewtree wrote: »

Very true but we could be farming beside each other aswell.
In fairness soil type has a bigger effect than location and there are some very difficult soils in mayo.

That's truego mile and a half from my house and there's a bog and go the other way and there's a quarry. A half mile in front of my house there's a river and a mile behind there's a lake. our land is rock solid now and waiting on warmth and a small drop of rain;)

Bigbird1

Got urea out on saturday and not a drop of rain since. Lads tell me ya need rain within 2 days or else half of it will be lost😓

lab man

I've never spread urea but was on nights with a week and there was a lot of heavy dewy/ wet grass each morning about 5 am so I'd say yer grand

Bass Reeves

Bigbird1 wrote: »

Got urea out on saturday and not a drop of rain since. Lads tell me ya need rain within 2 days or else half of it will be lost��

When you kneel down to say you morning prayers ( the ones you forgot when you got out of bed) if your knees get wet out in the field keep spreading urea. When I buy straight N Can and Ureal on a N basis I buy 80% urea to 20% Can. After that I but another 20%N in the form of compound 18-6-12

Never wrestle with pigs

Bigbird1 wrote: »

Got urea out on saturday and not a drop of rain since. Lads tell me ya need rain within 2 days or else half of it will be lost😓

Very heavy due out the last few days, your grand.

Capercaillie

yewtree wrote: »

Very true but we could be farming beside each other aswell.
In fairness soil type has a bigger effect than location and there are some very difficult soils in mayo.

Location is important as well. I'm in coastal NW Mayo, where growth is generally 3-4 weeks behind more sheltered areas. That's even with high soil index ground.
Salt spray has a big effect.

farawaygrass

I have been putting it out for the last 3 weeks. Almost blanket spread the farm in January with 10-10-20. The fields are very green. It no big flush of grass yet though. Still feeding bales out to cows. We out winter all the sheep here so the ground was very bare. Hoping to house them in the next year or two so I have more spring grass

lab man

Great username you have! I suppose tis always greener!!

farawaygrass

lab man wrote: »

Great username you have! I suppose tis always greener!!

Relevant to this thread alright I suppose!