Grazing 2025

endainoz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123589345#Comment_123589345

I find the white clover in particular has skyrocketed this year.

Kevhog1988

Notice some lift in grass the past week. Lambs went back a bit as orf went through them. Horrible virus

Young95

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123592836#Comment_123592836

have it started here now too , hopefully it won’t be to bad , but it’s a horrible thing

limo_100

got a lot of slurry out over the last few days between my own spreading and spread the meadows aswell. This is all for grazing is it worth spreading some fertilizer on this now aswel or is the slurry enough? Good cattle slurry and pig slurry mixed. About 2000-2500 gals to the acre.

Cavanjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123661155#Comment_123661155

All depends on how heavy you are stocked and how good your ground is.
We’ve grass growing across the hedges here.i put out urea last week on some land where we were getting tight on grass. Grass will fly with all the rain, add in the slurry and you’ll have a lot of grass.

limo_100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123661171#Comment_123661171

gone little tight here but will all the slurry out now that should change. No im not overly heavy stocked this back end so maybe il manage without any Fert so

funkey_monkey

Anyone here so strip grazing? Do a bit here and it has gone okay this year, the decent weather has helped prevent poaching.

Ground is firm but I can still feel last years poaching underfoot. Will put some sheep on it over winter and hopefully they'll sort it the worst of it.

Lime Tree Farm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123592836#Comment_123592836

I helped a neighbour vaccinate his sheep against orf a while back, I think they were ewes. He held them up while I used some type a double blade on the skin of the inner thigh to innoculate them. I don't know whether it was effective or not

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123675788#Comment_123675788

That's the scabivax vaccine. I might look into using that next year

Kevhog1988

Some growth the past few weeks. Some of fhis was like a snooker table 2 and a half weeks ago

I says

strip grazing here. I put slurry on silage ground last week umbilical spreader you can’t see the lines here after five days with the regrowth.

endainoz

I've never seen an August like it for grass anyway. The compensatory growth seems to have far exceeded the grass we missed out on at the start of the grazing season. Animals seem very content.

Tileman

best grass growth in last 7 years here I’d say. Unreal growth. Once it status dry for the autumn so we can utilise it.

memorystick

I’ve corners of thistles. Will topping remove or will I have to spray and when? Also if I do spray, how long before I can graze? Thanks

endainoz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123724801#Comment_123724801

Topping all the way, cut up thistles are a fantastic green manure, I know sheep men hate the sight of them but cattle aren't remotely bothered by them

memorystick

How often would I have to top them to kill them?

endainoz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123725358#Comment_123725358

One good topping around June/July will get rid of them for the year, not sure about prevention tbh but like most weeds if they get cut before going to seed it should weaken them and prevent spread over time.

Castlekeeper

Leave a few here and there for the birds and the bees.

memorystick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123728964#Comment_123728964

I topped them last June and they’re back. On a different note I sprayed a drain bank beneath the electric fence with Grazon 90. Burnt and killed everything but the amount of wild flowers there now is incredible. Once the briars and furze were burnt, the smaller stuff took over.

Castlekeeper

A case of live horse and you'll get grass I suppose?

Yeah just to leave a few in the meantime as flowering plants the pollinators and dependant butterflies etc.amd subsequent seeds provide winter food for finchesand other birds. As you said, they'll come back anyway so here is no advantage to wiping everything out at once.

On the spraying of a drain bank, it's really poor practice and the kind of thing that gives herbicides a bad name.

Of course early succession annuals are going to recolonise and vegetate the bare ground. However the pity is once things start looking "dirty" the spray will be out again.

memorystick

Grazon 90 won’t kill the grass. The amount of wild flowers there now is unreal. Briars and furze are suffocating the smaller flowers. Maybe I’m wrong

endainoz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123731236#Comment_123731236

I think their main point was that it's bad practice to be spraying so close to a water course, whether it's a drain or a river it all contributes to contamination of our drinking water.

funkey_monkey

I'm getting tight with grazing now. I've limed a block of ground a few weeks ago but there hasn't been any rain on it since.

Is it okay to put sucklers and calves onto it now or must I wait for the rain to wash it in?

Dunedin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123749288#Comment_123749288

I’d wait till the rain has washed it in.

Kevhog1988

Nice drop of Rain here today in Leitrim. Probably needed it a bit tbh. Notice the lawn was getting very burnt.

Is there much addition to spread a bit of fertiliser after grazing this time of the year?.

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123753131#Comment_123753131

I always spread a bag of CAN 27%N to the acre this time of year to keep the grass growing, I always think it's worthwhile

Cavanjack

Same here, after spreading a few bags of urea yesterday and will keep spreading after the cattle as they graze for the next two weeks.
All depends on your stocking rate too. No point putting out fertilizer if you’ve nothing to eat the grass.
On a side note the place is destroyed in “brown rust” due to lack of rain I hope.
Cattle are eating it but not sure if there is much feeding in it.

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123760657#Comment_123760657

I go with half a bag of ordinary urea 23 units N/ acre approx

Hershall

Would normally spread a bag of sweetgrass to the acre this time of year but i have so much grass now i won't

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123760829#Comment_123760829

I do the same, I think the sweet grass helps with the palatability and also improves the grass coming back in the spring.