Grazing 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.