Its a great variety but need to watch it like a hawk coming up to harvest and have contractor ready to go, as the cob dries down extremely quickly the leafs will be lush green but needs to be cut, usually cutting date here is the 20th of September with it been sowed last week of April
Are you gone oad for the year or just the spring
The drought did alot of damage on a good few farms fertility wise. 17 left to calve here.
No back twice a day on main herd. They're doing about 23 litres maybe, milk going to calves as well so maybe a bit more, last collection was 4.25 bf and 3.78p. Now I think that should rise a bit with the stretched calving spread and hopefully better weather. Low farm cover but cover per cow is fine so grass ahead should be good
Argument could be made for the remaining ones to go once a day to get em back cycling faster maybe as a lot of activitiy in early ones. Will see
late September is target with something like rye..wholecrop wheat or a green cover for winter in after….feed it as buffer thru spring and summer
I try and feed Maize all year long- it won’t reduce meal infact if you have feed to yield In parlour you will use more meal as the cows will milk better and then will be fed better which in turn results in more milk- you will realise how bad your worst cows are if you have fed to yield and feed maize- cows not getting at least 6 kg meal of fed per day on feed to yield are the most inefficient cows you can have
Big outlay to get FTY unfortunately
What 2k per unit - avg 8 cows per unit - 250 per cow would pay for itself in a year
For new feeders, new meter boxes to what we have ?
Going with maize here again this year, although may not be as financially viable as last year with the price of grain down by a third, more expensive plastic and still relatively expensive fertilizer. Plan to sow end of month. Also have some winter wheat for wholecrop and planning to direct drill some westerwolts into the stubble after cutting. Rotating the wheat after the maize, the wheat does very well after maize.
MSS/red clover silage can deliver super silage too, 2 cuts here tested that they'd support 20L without meal! I left the 2nd cut go strong to let the clover flowers, but it was still very good. Yields about 20 high DM bales per year.
Was going to be over 4k a unit to put in field to yield here on a 20 unit and go with the new dairymaster acr/milk meter unit that's used for their latest system, as it was for batch single drop dairymaster air feeders installed and 20 lightweight clusters and shells acr ready it was 1300 a unit
Bought a load of used astroturf about a month ago, it is some job, cows love it
A good job when conditions are poor like last week I'd say. Does it harden during the summer?
What kinda cover was on yours?
What kinda growth rates do you expect through the year?
We'll see as the summer goes on, there were two types in the load I got, the real sandy older stuff which is heavy and already fairly stiff and then lighter more grass like synthetic stuff.
I've added it to pasturebase but I think the first year of reseeding never has great growth!
I hope it works well, but the concern I'd have is the amount of plastic introducing to the farm, especially run off to waterways, and also it's end of life destination, it could be another silage tyres.
Talking to our maize seed and spray supplier. Seed up 30%, sprays up 60% compared to last year.
1.12million for 31acres of land in Cork... Mad stuff
Anyone else getting low milk urea?
Did a farmer buy it.
fairly constant around 20 +/- a little
p and lactose ok, so happy at that
I'm gone to 13 in tonight's message. Started off 36 good few weeks ago to now tonights 13.
Not really worried though. I know the answer is there's feck all N in the grass. 15 units gone on some and 11 ytd on the rest is the cause.
May go serious on getting a bit of N out though. (foliar) Heats are strong though and milk volume is good.
Identical to yourself. Still finishing 1st round grass here with a tiny bit of 2nd Rd blended in. Nitrogen out early this week.
Urea sitting between 14 and 20. Jumped in clover paddocks. Half bag urea back in Feb, 36 units 18.6.12 the last week or so. Will be finished 2nd round in about 6 days
Haven't 1st round finished here yet
Good bull for anyone looking for milk plus solids, only very early daughter proofs, 8% combined f and p of first 100 daughters is unreal....
Fr7608
my kind of bull- maybe just a bit too much stature
@ the price per straw he would want to be good.
Do lads leave on their electric hot water tanks all the time or just have it on during the night? Got a savage esb bill recently. Used leave on my tank but going turning it off during daytime from now on.
Served heifers to him as part of ftai programme last Saturday ….have a few in tank for certain cows too …..him and parafect both renegade sons and look v promising
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