After fecking up here a bit, growth after dropping to 50, 3 days of ok covers left and then back to 1k. For the first time could actually use a drop of rain!
Things are getting tight here too. I think it's the cold at night more than drought. Glad I was too lazy to take out strong paddocks two weeks ago.
Plenty of rain up our way
Mowed 30% here in the last 3 weeks, some is in the pit, rest in bales nice to get them, was stocked at 5.4 for 2 weeks, 4.5 atm
How much are you feeding in the parlour. Stocked at 4.5 here at the moment. About 60% of the milking block closed for silage, heifers and calves.
Back to 3 kg now, was on 4 since we started milking in spring
Glanbia are telling ye to try not drop yield - https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-40886180.html
Weren't they saying the complete opposite a few months ago and going to penalise for too much milk
Musical chairs with them at this stage, the board seem to be a law onto themselves, theirs uproar over their Messing about with milk payments now been split from thy June cheque onwards and I'd say 99% of suppliers are opposed to it, but the only few that reckon its a brilliant idea are on the board
Took out a paddock that had gone strong, silage was delayed till last wkend as well and another few acres out for reseeding. Got contractor in to spread fert but should have been following the cows. Silage delayed really caught me as heifers at home still. At least the water got done anyway, they can give out to me for the grass instead of the water this week. Will fire in a few bales at the wkend
Interesting Snapchat of kiwi land, most telling line was while 9 dollars a kg milk solids is fonterra highest ever opening pay out inflation adjusted its only equal to 6.25dollars, converted in Irish terms 46 cent a litre inflation cost adjusted is only the same payout as getting 28 cent a litre in 2020 in a Irish context
We ve had only one day of rain really since 20th of Apr around here even though we have a bit of heavy drizzle here and there.we ve managed to keep rotation length but are going grazing second cut tomorrow .
it would have been helpful if they brought back the payment days to 12/14 instead of the split payment, we actually have to wait an extra 3 days to get paid!
it was cost neutral for company to pay the way they are, amazing how they can now calculate milk payments so quickly to have half ready for the 12th
agribusiness payments now pushed to out here in response
Been trying to promote clover in a couple paddocks that were resending last year and beginning to think that clover might be a train that never comes for intensive dairying s.waiting the whole year for it to kick off
What did you do this year re N ? Normal amount till April and half rate or cut back altogether?
I think teagasc and everyone else have alot to learn about clover. I'm noticing more and more of it this year with the heightened awareness.
I put down roadways 2 years ago and near the end of it where there isn't much traffic it is covered in clover. Same in the yard around the back of the house which is a bit unfinished. It seems to grow away itself if the conditions suit it.
Most of my paddocks are pale coloured from the cold nights with big rich dung pads. The best grass I have is after slurry. Sometimes I wonder is the bag of fertiliser any good at all.
About 2 /3 s of normal n .got a good amount of clover on it but I can't see it delivering anything extra up to this.we seem to have clover in most fields as we graze tight and are often tight on grass so rarely have high covers
Have you P&K gone out on it?
How much bagged fertilizer have you been spreading and what type?
Following the cows with 30 units of pasture sward. Cold weather didn't help. Things should fly now.
There's a relationship with clover and soil microbes.
If it's working properly where the clover is, around that clover the grass should be a dark rich colour.
If you hurt those microbes you won't have that colour and N fixation. Cobalt is also a factor in the process.
30 unites is a lot.16/17 units here and seems to be enough
I know. I'm back to 20 on this round. I think the cold nights was the problem. The slurry worked better.
What's everyone like for grass, very little growth here the last 10 days, giving them some silage in the evenings.
Could you try with one field that has a good amount of clover going with no N and see how it goes? Parlour washings and maybe 0.7.30
If the cold nights were affecting the uptake, it would've affected the slurry as well, no? Were the nights even that cold since the start of may? I thought growth for pretty much the whole month was powerful enough. Would it not be much more likely the ground is well short of p&k?
Following with 18/20 here and was enough last few weeks as on 14/18 day round …with bales out reduced growth rates and rotation back around 21 …that ammount isn’t enough and will quickly show around paddocks
on the clover …lads have gone mad at it this Year and I feel some heap of money after been waisted .beteween doing too much at one time ,indexes not good enough ,lime ,too much n and poor or I’ll judged management after an affull lot of it will never take .
Noticeable drop in last week,cows dropped in milk too colder weather not helping
Tight here, rain and bit of warmth has kicked things on, will have to feed silage for a few days I reckon just to slow things a bit. Upped the meal to 6 with 5 days to see if I could get around it but still looking tight. No fun at 450/ tonne
Loads of grass here, following the cows with 14 Kgs dissolved urea sprayed with humic and fulvic. Cows seem to love it.
What sr are you running? Ours was up at 4.8 and caused the pinch
