Probably a bit high alright, often grew it here for malting andand it tested 14%P just to annoy me.
that might be different sort of protein.
a long time since I mixed my own rations, a pain in teh ares of a job
Actually probably will be selling before housing. Due to Beam & the fact that our silage quality is poor enough.
Just thought as well that the grass quality would be deteriorating as well these times
Have a paddock here that's very strong. Took a second cut of bales of it just over 6 weeks ago. Got a shake of pasture sward as the plan was to graze it.
With a few fine days coming would I be mad to cut and bale it ? Its dry ground so not worried about doing any damage.
Gonna do Similar here this week and bale it.
It'd be very low DM, Polythene'll be worth more than the feed value.
You are baling a product that will be high teens in DM at best. With dry weather for the next 10 ish days and dry ground I would try to strip graze it with stores
Anything other than molasses that you put on to help it ensile better ? I'm assuming whey or whey concentrate isn't readily got from cheese plants ...
Ideally thats what I would do but the problem if you could call it a problem is that I have an abundance of grass. I'll make a decision in the next 24 hours.
Walked the place today, I have a lot of grass aswell. I have 6-7 acresof really heavy covers . Its in two padocks, I is 4 acres the other 2+. I have the stores split into bunches of over twenty and will let them graze thereway throug it. I moved the heavy bullocks into a 5 acre paddock that has about 1600 cover. They will graze it and I will get stores to clean it out. I be closing from now on. When the heavy covers are eaten the rest will be gone through fairly fast.
Doesn't the dew stay on the grass a long time now. Know a lad who made bales on 8th December one year
Use the dry week coming to get thru wet ground and or heavy covers. If you have wet ground try and get that grazed. If heavy covers are on dry ground strip graze. Use it to keep stock out that bit longer if possible.
See in the Journal 55ac in Kilkenny let on 5 year lease to a beef farmer for e400 ac Beat off 2dairy farmers. No entitlements. Would love to know the reasoning behind this
wonder would this have anything to do with it.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/national-reserve-limits-on-hectares-and-income-removed/
Possibly. Surprised at the removal of the 90 Ha limit. Hardly going to lead to a fair distribution of entitlements. The big operator wins again
I think the removal of this will lead to the removal of the armchair farmer brigade. It will be a use it or lose it, so thus the national reserve will be increased
How will it be use it or loose it?
The days of leasing land and expecting the sub back with rent are numbered. Dept have out the feelers on this. With convergence on the way and the opening up of the national reserve, the days of trading trading and leasing are really numbered. This will leave a large number of surplus entitlements floating around, to be hoovered up by the national reserve. This is just my humble view looking at the larger picture
If that's the view are u as well off to try and purchase entitlements next year instead of leasing if you have bare land
They're worth moreto the owner to lease .
By the time the National reserve takes 20% and the Capital Gains tax takes 35% of the ramainder, they're not worth selling.
For the last CAP reform there was concessions given at the end if you wanted to sell.so I'll be waiting until 2023 before I sell.
Mine will probably go to the people that have them leased.
Probably will happen but will take time. I still think removing the 90 Ha limit is a mistake. Only people with plenty money can buy or lease large
Should they not of lowered the limit
Nitrates compliance of land within 30km will help to control this to some effect.
The entitlements will stay with the tenant that always had them, Indirectly their value will still come back to the landowner. there won't be a huge number of surplus entitlements around
Right or wrong its baled and in the yard.
Unreal spread of grass for the middle of October. I reckon unless we get snow I'll have most of the cattle out until January
You don’t live in Mayo I bet
Grass growth is even unreal on what has been closed already. Problem for me here is ground will always beat you, the joys of heavy marl clay. Everyday you are out from now on is a bonus.
Working through a fair bit of heavy covers similar to @Easten with heavier stock before the weather breaks. Constant moving of fences, but it's easier going than opening bales. Avoiding damage to the ground, to allow getting yearlings back out early in the spring is my plan. Got out in mid February this year, and it stood to the gain on cattle.
Has been an unreal backend for growth, just goes to shows that the year will always average out. Will probably leave us with an awful wet winter now, but would take it in November and December any day.
The growth after we got some of the lagoon spread early last week is unreal. Local contractor does it for us with the umbilical and trailing shoe. Hopefully the weather stays kind and we can keep some younger stock out well into the Winter to graze it.
Grass growth is unreal at present. Next week should be growthy as well. great thrive on cattle. Struggling to close ground to get out in spring as I am on some very heavy covers at present.
Anyone with cattle in?
