Ye are doing fair feeding lads but at least your milk yield is holding up. I never fed over 5 kg here and that would be in the spring time.
I had a field closed for bales here that I had to graze. Was probably about 2500 cover on it. I didn't force them to clean it out as I have it closed again for bales hopefully. They were flying while grazing it. Did about 2.1 kgMs. Since they came out of it and went back to normal / mediocre grass they have crashed back to 1.9 kgMs. Peak is over here I guess. Doing them with eprecis soon in the hope that it'll help. A disappointing year in milk here I'm afraid. I have double the heifers compared to last year which doesn't help.
Similar enough story here silage and 4kg growth has stalled and the whole farm gone to seed again . Been a **** enough grass year in the south east
Have this 6th calver. British Friesian . Calving end September. Milking 20 litres. What's she worth?
1980 €€
South East of Ireland?
I'm going to jinx myself. I know I really will.
This has been the greatest year grazing wise and silage saving wise in all my time on farm here. I'm still on 15 units N spread on half the grazing ground, other half went to 30 units total spread so far this year. Only reason I didn't go with the 30 on the rest is the fert got wet in the spreader with the cover blowing open and I intended to empty it out. But I unhooked the spreader in the shed and now it's heeled itself up sideways.
In hindsight I didn't need the extra 15 units either. Whatever else I've done. Which I've mentioned on here before seems to be working. The more I do of it. The better it's getting.
Definitely jinxed yourself.
Did you read article in farmers journal about "Soil farmer of year " Mark Armitage. found it interesting , on a 45 day rotation, outwinters some weanlings, spreads small amount of fertilizer, lot of soil sampling and feeding soil accordingly
is it possible to get some context please, i know what your at via twitter and previous posts on here but you never mentioned your stocking rate on your grazing platform and rotation length.
No I'll have to look it up.
3.7 lu/ha atm. Had silage ground grazing earlier on.
Rotation is short enough atm. 13.5 days.
No topping or pre mowing.
There'll be a field of aftergrass coming back into the rotation so the rotation length doesn't worry me.
The silage field will get 20 units N to get it going after the cut. Dairy washings gone on too. Then back foliar the same as the rest.
The place looks ugly to a normal person.
Another Armitage. Will Armitage.
I heard this man speak. And this is how I'd be basing myself on.
How do you get away without mowing, is there not a stemmy root left that just builds up over time?
Have to laugh at some farmers on Twitter, A fella taking pot shots at Pippa Hackett for her husband not wearing a helmet on a quad. I don't agree with the junior minister on much, but this twitter witch hunting is pretty tragic to see, You'd love to have that much time on your hands
Grass is under serious stress down south, Paddocks topped two rounds ago are needing pre mowing, Not old pastures either
I don't think Twitter is a very nice place. I'm not a member myself. A helmet isn't much good to you if you roll a quad or drive into a wire across a roadway.
I'm down south and things are getting tight now alright. No topping or pre mowing done yet this year though. Rain at the weekend it seems like.
No this round especially they're clearing it to the ground. I don't know. With no N I suppose it's easier clear. But this round the residual is at it's lowest. Now that's not ideal but I will have some silage ground coming back in play.
To tell you the truth since I started with basalt and diluted seawater a few years back I've never had to worry about topping grass. Top weeds alright but not for grass.
I ignore any of that trolling of people, but I can only imagine some of the stuff being said to Mark Hackett because of who he's married to. I'm no fan of his wife, or the fact that she supported Eamon Ryan in the GP leadership contest, but insulting her thru the husband is plain wrong.
Does your grass not get anyway stemmy this time of year ,or are your cows eating the stem as well as the leaf .I am precutting more then half of this round and pr. back to 3.35 no topping done previous ,this round of cutting might sort it for remainder of year
What's your yield, solids, milk urea like?
Pot shots over minor things or attempts to goad into a corner come across as childish tbh. No fan of our junior minister but stuff like that is petty and pointless. Sure if an issue is there respond but do so in the correct manner ffs.
Drizzly showers here but not much falling. Looks like we'll get a shot Friday alright. Grass quality poor here but very little of it cut compared to other years. P between 3.55 and 3.6. BF around the 3.7 mark
What are the litres like. 3.45 p, 3.95 f here. About 26 or 7 litres
You first.
24.5 litres. 4.10 bf 3.45pr. MU 21.
Volume has dropped over the wkend, ran low in meal so cut back for the wkend to have a bit to give this morning didn't help. collection this morning just under 26, hopefully will recover back up a bit
21% heifers
28% second calvers
Remainder all 3rd calvers
23.8 litres, protein 3.42, bf 4.45, MU 24.
Had a quick scan there earlier maybe didn't see all the tweets but the 2 fellows I did see think the sun, moon and stars shine from their @#&f.
Think nobody else is doing anything right only themselves.
Round is too short to go stemy.
When the grass is under stress it goes stemy. With the foliar and soil feeding it seem to keep it at the vegetative stage for longer.
Ah you know why it's happening.
It's all these tweets in the past from Pippa.
And all these tweets were to keep a cohort vote. Mention destructive, intensive, fire starting farmers and she gets the thanks and likes and retweets.
And tweeting farmers business on twitter with pictures without seeing if such a thing was legal or right or wrong or not.
I'm non plussed on it all.
Some ugly stuff doing the rounds on Twitter today via the EU farm commissioner Twitter account - shows Ireland is second in the EU for herbicide/pesticide use on farmland per/HA. Not a good look at all given Bord Bia's waffle on such things. TBH I was a bit shocked at the figures myself though I think it is already clear to most that herbicides use on grassland, roadsides, hedgerows etc. is excessive in many parts of the country. While farming will rightly take alot of the blame CC's, Forestry contractors, Golf Clubs, Urban estate maintenance companies etc. need reigning in too...
