Dairy chit chat II

If it's just on your eye lid then wash it
with washing up liquid and water and rinse and dry with a clean towel.
Then you can rinse all you like after if you wish.

Water on it's own won't take it off.

yosemitesam1

http://www.rsis.co.uk/workplace-safety-c482/first-aid-c833/eyewash-c835/diphoterine-eye-wash-500ml-p12661

Everyone should have some of this eyewash, neutralizes both acids and bases an awful lot faster than water can

Buford T. Justice XIX

I was just reading an article on Cargill, a huge, family owned cereal and beef trader in the US and how the internet allowing farmers access to pricing information from all over the world is putting their business model under pressure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/america-s-largest-private-company-reboots-a-153-year-old-strategy

I'm seeing a lot of similarities with milk purchasers there.

Gawddawggonnit

Was away for a couple of weeks on a busmans holiday. I got a couple of calls from guys that have grass burning up from drought...

1. If you’re thinking of irrigating with a slurry tanker....25mm of water per acre is about 25k gallons per acre!

2. If grass is showing drought stress don’t spread fertiliser.

3. 10units/acre of liquid urea sprayed on at night/late evening works well.

Had cows in by night a few weeks ago for four nights. Gave grass 40mm of water...baling some paddocks Wednesday.
Some second and third cut to be pitted also on Wed.

straight

Changed my electricity supplier today. 16.4 cent incl vat per kWh. My last deal was for 13.5.

straight wrote: »

Changed my electricity supplier today. 16.4 cent incl vat per kWh. My last deal was for 13.5.

Who are you with now?

straight

whelan2 wrote: »

Who are you with now?

Energia. Actually shopped around first and went back to them and they matched so same supplier with a new 12 month contract

straight wrote: »

Energia. Actually shopped around first and went back to them and they matched so same supplier with a new 12 month contract

Was going to go with them but they had a quota of what you could use at the low price, when that was used up it went back up to full price. I was within the cooling period so was able to change

Timmaay

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Was away for a couple of weeks on a busmans holiday. I got a couple of calls from guys that have grass burning up from drought...

1. If you’re thinking of irrigating with a slurry tanker....25mm of water per acre is about 25k gallons per acre!

2. If grass is showing drought stress don’t spread fertiliser.

3. 10units/acre of liquid urea sprayed on at night/late evening works well.

Had cows in by night a few weeks ago for four nights. Gave grass 40mm of water...baling some paddocks Wednesday.
Some second and third cut to be pitted also on Wed.

What about maize? At what point does it need irrigation? Apparently we are at "70mm" water deficit at the min in the east coast, do you know what figure you experience over there?

Gawddawggonnit

Timmaay wrote: »

What about maize? At what point does it need irrigation? Apparently we are at "70mm" water deficit at the min in the east coast, do you know what figure you experience over there?

Had 11mts in a row last year where deficit never went under 80mm.
It gives a good idea of the overall severity of the drought. Your individual fields will vary hugely. Shallow land suffers the most...
Maize needs water when leaves go curled and spikey. Grass would look like it was dead and burned with round up at that stage...
Adequate water at flowering is imperative.

Contractor booked for Thursday to mow 25 acres of grazing platform for bales.

older by the day

Off subject a small bit, I gave 20 Euro per round bale of straw delivered last Sept. Anyone guess straw price this year. I have a couple of fields of rush I was going to top, but was thinking of mowing turning and drawing in loose, as you can't bale it, too rough. But if straw will be dear it might be worth the bother

Buford T. Justice XIX

older by the day wrote: »

Off subject a small bit, I gave 20 Euro per round bale of straw delivered last Sept. Anyone guess straw price this year. I have a couple of fields of rush I was going to top, but was thinking of mowing turning and drawing in loose, as you can't bale it, too rough. But if straw will be dear it might be worth the bother

Straw WILL be dear this winter.

Cereal area is back and the man I buy straw off reckons straw yields/acre will be back as well.

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Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

older by the day wrote: »

Off subject a small bit, I gave 20 Euro per round bale of straw delivered last Sept. Anyone guess straw price this year. I have a couple of fields of rush I was going to top, but was thinking of mowing turning and drawing in loose, as you can't bale it, too rough. But if straw will be dear it might be worth the bother

Straw WILL be dear this winter.

Cereal area is back and the man I buy straw off reckons straw yields/acre will be back as well.

Straw will be scarce in tillage areas never mind being put on a lorry from what guys are saying. Saw Sbarleyb headed out at 40cm tall st friends place In S Kilkenny
Be the first year since 2012 straw and grain will be worth something this year as finally passed consumption being greater than stocks.

freedominacup

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Straw will be scarce in tillage areas never mind being put on a lorry from what guys are saying. Saw Sbarleyb headed out at 40cm tall st friends place In S Kilkenny
Be the first year since 2012 straw and grain will be worth something this year as finally passed consumption being greater than stocks.

And in typical Irish form it's the two years yield potential is most compromised in this country. 2012 was a poor harvest. Crops that looked well a thus stage of the year had a poor return after harvest. That said I was in Callan last night and saw some winter crops that looked like they would be pretty good.

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freedominacup wrote: »

And in typical Irish form it's the two years yield potential is most compromised in this country. 2012 was a poor harvest. Crops that looked well a thus stage of the year had a poor return after harvest. That said I was in Callan last night and saw some winter crops that looked like they would be pretty good.

Same at work regards Winter crops, potential to do a record crop for farms growing feed crops pushing yield. Spring crops if they reach averages will be a miracle.
Did ok financialy in 2012 it was the collateral damage the following year that ruined it. Feed wheat today is about what good spec milling wheat was selling for 2 years ago.

Any sbarley crops around here that were "mucked" in are flying it.
Any that were sown in what would be the perfect seedbed in a normal year are under pressure.

charolais0153

Say my name wrote: »

Any sbarley crops around here that were "mucked" in are flying it.
Any that were sown in what would be the perfect seedbed in a normal year are under pressure.

Ya a man near here made an absolute mess of the headlands last november getting winter barley in. A fine crop now and the headlands arent great but are still alrite

charolais0153 wrote: »

Ya a man near here made an absolute mess of the headlands last november getting winter barley in. A fine crop now and the headlands arent great but are still alrite

Well the excess rain over the winter probably affected the headlands in the wb coupled with....

A plough pan from ploughing in wet conditions.
That's what I mean by "mucking" in.
Any of the land that ploughed up shiny is growing great crops.
The plough pan layer seems to have trapped any moisture from going down into the soil. It definitely wasn't intended but there you go.

Mooooo

Opened a bale out in the field for the cows, other lads zerograzing grass into the shed then, tis a strange year

Buford T. Justice XIX

Just going through the new milk recording report and it's very well done, tbf.

All cows ranked in order and divided into top performers, average and poor. Should be easy to pick ones not going to stay around next year.

The scc report is well done also, some sorted since the recording but always a few more to sort out.

Just wondering if I got pig slurry spread with a dribble bar would it help with moisture on bare paddocks or would it be a disaster??
Things getting abit hairy here

visatorro wrote: »

Just wondering if I got pig slurry spread with a dribble bar would it help with moisture on bare paddocks or would it be a disaster??
Things getting abit hairy here

Was wondering about that yesterday, neighbour has very dry farm, feeding bales this week or 2 and he had slurry lads in yesterday. Would it just makes things worse when it turns warm again? Are you feeding silage?

Reggie.

visatorro wrote: »

Just wondering if I got pig slurry spread with a dribble bar would it help with moisture on bare paddocks or would it be a disaster??
Things getting abit hairy here

How's that reseed doing?

visatorro wrote: »

Just wondering if I got pig slurry spread with a dribble bar would it help with moisture on bare paddocks or would it be a disaster??
Things getting abit hairy here

I went out with slurry today on paddocks for that very reason. The ground will stay damp under the slurry.
The dribble bar is the right job.

Spread away.

whelan2 wrote:

Was wondering about that yesterday, neighbour has very dry farm, feeding bales this week or 2 and he had slurry lads in yesterday. Would it just makes things worse when it turns warm again? Are you feeding silage?

No silage yet, either zero graze second cut or open first cut next week. Did he spread with splash plate or dribble bar?

Say my name wrote:

I went out with slurry today on paddocks for that very reason. The ground will stay damp under the slurry. The dribble bar is the right job.

I don't have much slurry that's why I was on about pig stuff.

visatorro wrote: »

No silage yet, either zero graze second cut or open first cut next week. Did he spread with splash plate or dribble bar?

splash plate

Reggie. wrote:

How's that reseed doing?

Am afraid to look at this stage!!