Gawddawggonnit wrote: » I’ve been giving this a lot of thought BP. I’ve never seen an umbilical in action, but what I’ve seen in photos looks to be the exact same pump (Bauer) that I use to pump from rivers. No bother pumping sufficient amounts of water with that pump. It’s the application that’s the issue. I just can’t think of any way of getting the water out without an irrigation reel. The rain gun is important because it cuts out a tractor and reel being involved in the process, and it’s properly and evenly applied 80m at a time... I spoke with my irrigation guy this morning about finding something to replace a reel and he’s stumped. If ye can collectively think up of some way of applying the water in the field...?? The pump needs about 120hp to drive it. (Also it’s insane to pay €100+/hr just to pump water) 30mm is enough to get grass growing at any one time. If you could get 30mm out in sub 30* temps grass would explode. The feed value would be poor but you’d have plenty of it. The only solution for applying the water in the field that I can think of is buying a second hand reel...€2-4K. Big shout out to a former boardsie that spent a day of his holidays hauling grain yesterday and again today!
dar31 wrote: » The slurry lagoon here is over half full and hasn't been agitated in the last month, so the crust is well settled. Would spreading the water slurry sucked off the bottom be of benefit spread with traling shoe at say 3000gl ac on some better fields.?
Keepgrowing wrote: » https://www.teagasc.ie/rural-economy/farm-management/farming-in-difficult-weather-conditions/
Brown Podzol wrote: » Thanks for that Dawg. One contractor I spoke to suggested using a dribble bar behind a second tractor placing the water directly on the ground starting late in the evening and working through the night. Looks like costing c. €120/ha to apply 30mm, now if I thought I could grow 100 kg dm say over 10 days that's a ton costing 12 cent a kg for the water. Expensive. But the alternatives are also expensive. Depending on how long this drought lasts its not how expensive the the alternatives are its will they be avalaible at all. Doing half of the farm would allow me to allocate 8 to 10 kg dm assuming no growth on the rest of the farm. Ok for now as we have 2 bales per cow quality silage and half ton fresh weight maize silage/beet avalaible. We are currently z grazing grass that was destined for bales.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Quick read of that and seems pretty good advice...except the spreading of N. Spreading N is NOT a solution to drought and could cause a lot more problems...
stretch film wrote: » tell us more........the 60mm soil deficit threshold is unlikely to have been breached on alot of areas yet.. Met Eireann have my area at 60-80mm.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » The difference between low and high organic carbon in the ground is fairly obvious. And a bit of drought thrown in for good measure.
Say my name wrote: » Tow And Fert Ireland (@TowAndFert) Tweeted: Applied 20 units of liquid urea & 8 L/ac of our test formula "Fortified Seaweed" to this ryegrass field on Tuesday 19th June at 3pm in the scorching sun - it was cut 3 weeks ago for haylage. This part of South Wexford has had no rain in 3 weeks and only 6.5 mm rain since May 11th https://t.co/0KFZlJ2knn https://twitter.com/TowAndFert/status/1012447828843646976?s=17
charolais0153 wrote: » Must be italian rygrass or something
Say my name wrote: » Ah you're reading the replies. Doesn't really matter. It's still impressive. The seaweed juice will help with the palatability big time and make up for any nutrient deficiencies and kick on growth in it's own right. The days of just n p and k are finished. Plus the big one for the dry. Foliar feeding.
wrangler wrote: » It must be 3 years at least since it was being demonstrated around here.....haven't heard a thing about it since....says it all really PS it didn't work here anyway
Say my name wrote: » That's what I was wondering about since you posted about that before. You're on limestone land. Did they use the seaweed juice or ground lime or what did they use with the liquid urea? 10/1 they used the ground lime in your case. I'm getting a response to liquid urea here in this weather. I've also gotten a response last year to diluted seawater and it darkened up the grass like in their Twitter post. Cows swept the grass after it too. Edit: if the ground was damp or wet there'd be no difference in this and granular.
wrangler wrote: » It seems to have died a death any way, there was a lot of demonstrations around here. Being a natural sceptic, I wasn't the ideal choice for promoting anything. It should've taken off if it was as good as the they claimed
GrasstoMilk wrote: » Ped, it was cut 3 weeks ago, it got spread with that machine ten days ago. Yes it looks very green but it's an Italian ryegrass or a hybrid more than likely down this year. That stuff grows for sport fert or no fert. It's real hungry grass and will take it out of the ground if it's not fed to it
Say my name wrote: » I'll bow to your knowledge on that because I've no experience of IR. Hell of a tweet though to get everyone's attention.
GrasstoMilk wrote: » Don't want to dismiss your interests in this area as that's what you are into but I'm a bit sceptical of that tweet, how ever it is very green so it has to have taken up something. I was always of the opinion that you needed damp conditions for liquid fert as it would burn the leaf or evaporate
Mooooo wrote: » 8% of cows bulling in last 2 days....
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » The difference between low and high organic matter in the ground is fairly obvious. And a bit of drought thrown in for good measure.
