Silage

majormonty

What is the going rate for growing silage in the bandon West Cork area

K.G.

It wont be long before you pm box will full😁.300?.i wouldnt pay it mind

Dinzee Conlee

K.G. wrote: »

It wont be long before you pm box will fullðŸ˜.300?.i wouldnt pay it mind

Jesus, 300 / acre??????

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K.G. wrote: »

It wont be long before you pm box will fullðŸ˜.300?.i wouldnt pay it mind

Is that with the farmer fertilising etc?

Have a local offering me €200 /acre for growing spuds/swedes.
Considering it as he'll do all the work and it will get the soil back into a decent condition after a few years of fertiliser. It's been in grass since the famine!

K.G.

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Jesus, 300 / acre??????

thats ready to cut.bandon barryroe innishannon kinsale clon is serious country-some land is going 400/ac a year.

Dinzee Conlee

K.G. wrote: »

thats ready to cut.bandon barryroe innishannon kinsale clon is serious country-some land is going 400/ac a year.

I suppose 300/acre is around 200/acre after fertiliser? Still mad dear I would have said...

Do you mean 400/acre long term, or con-acre?
I’d be fairly slap bang in the middle of where you called out there. We have good ground all right, be all dairy and tillage around us... but I would have thought no one would be paying 400/ac? Seems madness...

K.G.

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

I suppose 300/acre is around 200/acre after fertiliser? Still mad dear I would have said...

Do you mean 400/acre long term, or con-acre?
I’d be fairly slap bang in the middle of where you called out there. We have good ground all right, be all dairy and tillage around us... but I would have thought no one would be paying 400/ac? Seems madness...

im a bit west farther but you hear theses stories.land made 28000 an acre in a sale in darragh this spring

tabby aspreme

Lucille Fierce Jig wrote: »

Is that with the farmer fertilising etc?

Have a local offering me €200 /acre for growing spuds/swedes.
Considering it as he'll do all the work and it will get the soil back into a decent condition after a few years of fertiliser. It's been in grass since the famine!

Potato ground usually makes 400 plus.

Dinzee Conlee

tabby aspreme wrote: »

Potato ground usually makes 400 plus.

Are potatoes very hard on ground?

tabby aspreme

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Are potatoes very hard on ground?

I believe a commercial crop can be, especially with the destoning process, which can have a long term effect on drainage and worm population.

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tabby aspreme wrote: »

I believe a commercial crop can be, especially with the destoning process, which can have a long term effect on drainage and worm population.

Please explain

tabby aspreme

Lucille Fierce Jig wrote: »

Please explain

Take a look at Agriland , there is an article today about potato planting , it explains destoning better than I can.

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tabby aspreme wrote: »

Take a look at Agriland , there is an article today about potato planting , it explains destoning better than I can.

Interesting article. If potatoes leave fertiliser behind them in the ground it looks to be a good thing.

My field (4acres)is in poor condition. Put nearly 500 euro in fertiliser on it in April between v18-6-12 , urea and granular lime.
Hopefully the silage I get pays for it.


If he puts a load more on it for a few years and pays me for the privilege, what's not to like.
Plus it gets ploughed up for the first time in decades and levelled off.

Am I wrong?

It was easier living in Dublin

tabby aspreme

An old lea like yours will give up a lot of valuable organic matter in the first two years, with sod rotting down. An 18/20 tonne crop of potatoes won't leave much fertiliser behind.