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Grazing 2023

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭Edgardo.


    I have some semi improved fields which were closed off in late March and it's a sea of red with Sorrel.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,449 ✭✭✭kk.man




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    His wife mustn’t be a very good grass advisor so 😀😀😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Tonynewholland


    Getting seriously dry now. Another 10 days of this and I'll have to let the cow into the second cut.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    hopefully the rain will come before then, it goes from one extreme to the other the ground was like a swamp in April



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,382 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Have they 1st cut in the pit long? Next week will be alarm bells for alot of places unless the weather breaks, in fairness the journal quoting growth results of 100kgs/ha plus on their monitor farms really gives a false sense of reality, growth rates will simply crash of a cliff if current weather conditions hold, the east wind blowing here at the minute is a carbon copy of what happened in 2018



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Mid June for 1st cut as silage ground was grazed late, some fun next week, plenty silage from last year but it will hit milk yields hard if it the main feed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,382 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Awh right, how many days grass is ahead of the cows, half the diet here at the minute is a buffer of beet/oat hulls/1st cut made start of may, it's pushed out days of grass ahead by 15 days, so 30 days grazing....

    Grazed circa 30 acres that should of been took out as surpluses but its brought us time to let after-grass paddocks bulk up



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    6 days and that’s stretching grass as it is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,025 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    The theory is that rain will come. I have a dry farm it virtually on top of rock( anything from a mm to a Meter.

    I just cannot afford to not have a reserve. We cut silage last week.Young lad wanted to take out a paddock as well. I held off. We have 6-7 a res of grass accross the road heavier ground. He wanted to put the finishers accross there.

    I am putting the storish bunch into the paddock he wanted to take out last week. I am putting the finishers into the heavy paddock and we will hold the paddocks accross the road for ten days time.

    I can carry until late June like this. Will have to pre mow accross the road. But f@@k this feeding bales as a buffeo

    Slava Ukrainii



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Growth was 95 last week, 64 this week but a few paddocks with cover prob helping that, wouldn't be surprised if it dropped to 40 next week, increased meal to counter grass quality but will how things go, all ground available bar 2 paddocks reseeding, paddocks baled and silage slow coming back



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,382 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Hard to fathom their not taking some kind if action re buffering to stretch out grass, if they run down afc under 550 and rain dosent come like predicted week after next their looking at basically a silage and meal diet for the foreseeable, unless they go back in grazing/zero-grazing silage ground



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,382 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Doesn't really work like that grazed paddocks here last week that should of been baled, topped after and mulched the clippings back in,

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    The clippings have retained moisture in the soil

    Dark clay was pulled up from underneath the mulched grass

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    A heavy 2000kgs plus cover at the minute is sucking up 5mm daily of moisture out of the ground and all your getting is cardboard grass, I'd rather have a fresh 1000kg cover in a weeks-10 days time to go into then a paddock of shot out dead grass

    Post edited by jaymla627 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,751 ✭✭✭DBK1


    100% accurate.

    It’s hard to believe there’s still lads out there that don’t understand how to grow grass.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Tonynewholland


    Where I am if the temperature goes to the mid 20s for a few days what grass that is there now would start to melt away. Slowing down the rotation doesn't always work out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Silverdream


    Weather forecast models updated again at 1pm. They are now showing dry hotter weather until at least the 15th. Lads really need to be on top of there game now to manage the grass. Over grazing isn't the solution as paddocks grazed down too tight will suffer more than those with some cover left on them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Ya I won't graze top tight, spread most of darm with can and 18 6 12 5 days ago. Would ye spread dairy washings? Would ye spray for docks?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,750 ✭✭✭older by the day


    All good here. The cousin brought back 200 b&h from holiday.

    On middling land cattle uses the grass a lot better than wet weather, where they walk and **** on it. Surely if things are tight 6kgs of the cheapest meal would lengthen thing out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Middling land here in monaghan loving every minute of this dry spell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,449 ✭✭✭kk.man


    It's very hard to work outside in the middle of the day with this heat. I love the sun and tan no problem but never witnessed intense heat so early and fast after a deluge.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,215 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    There's a big difference between being on holidays doing nothing in the heat and working in the heat



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 Dan Gibbons


    Sure is good to get work done on land that is normally wet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Silverdream


    Doesn't look like there's a pile of rain on the way over the next week. Forecasts have trimmed the rain back to light showers in places for a day or two over the next 10 days. Upland around me is roasted at the moment, grass is turning brown in places now. If we got a good shot of rain you'd see an explosion in growth with all the heat that is in the soil



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,382 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    We are goosed here unless 30-50 ml is got shortly enough looking at the rainfall data for my area 2018 and if we see out June without the above rainfall levels we are in alot worse position than 2018, the east wind here has destroyed the place the last 3 weeks sucking moisture up out of the ground, you know your in bother when a bull delivererd yesterday from a ai rep from Carlow commented how yellow and scorhced the place was looking




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,215 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Are ye still getting hot days? It's only get-up to 14 or 15 here during the day and cloudly



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Not as warm today, yday or the day before. With the dry weather we've had no still day, a breeze or wind everyday, it's doing more drying than the sun. Literally had a few drops yday but only noticed it cos I was sat in the car.

    Edit to add had a growth of 40 the last week, from here on out if rain doesn't come things will stop up quick enough.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    I was just wondering if anyone used in line toppers?

    I was thinking of changing my 7ft maxi float topper to a 9ft in line topper?

    Any issues with them?

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭memorystick


    I cut silage this week and spread slurry at 4K gallons per acre (almost). Will that grow a second cut on its own? Thanks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Still on the same ground with less grass each rotation, the cows have a pick of grass in the evening and on bare ground during the day, milk yields slipping sharply.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    9 units of n in 1000 gallons of undiluted cattle slurry so that’s 27 Units of nitrogen, you’d want 80 to 100 units an acre for second cut.



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