Anything decent in limerick is making up on 15k an acre freely now and can only see it staying that way once derogation goes to 220/ha next year…still an awful lot of lads sitting on shares down west
15 k plus for anything decent
@straight Thanks for the advice. I'll try that 👍
Listening to the laois teagasc dairy specialist on their latest podcast, he reckoned the majority of farms where flying it, growing 70kgs/ha plus a day and raving about going into 1400kh/ha perfect covers....
2 weeks since this was last grazed,
Maybe growing 10kgs/ha since grazing, their on a different planet them boys
Had 40 week just gone, 65 week before that. Quality of grass poor tho. Drizzle all day but fcuk all falling after. Some places aren't as bad as others
No growth of the sort in the last fortnight measured 30 on thursday and that was mainly the paddocks with covers bringing it up anything grazed in last fortnight is struggling
Anyone on here running a westfalia gea parlour , wouldnt see too many in ireland nice few in england/NZ looking at a second hand thinking of bringing it across
Any kind of land can be rewilded. The kind of people that want to rewild don't care what the quality is like.
Alot of lads with dry farms now crying over a couple of dry weeks. I'd say a mixed farm is the way to go.
Anyone know how cows would fare out getting 6kg of a 4kg feed rate ration? (2oz of Mg in 4kg)
Would take dry land over ground that needs draining any day of the week. 1500 plus an acre wouldn't be long going draining fields not including reseeding, much easier to feed extra in dry weather than house in a wet summer too!
Have often fed it didn't see any issues. Increase over 2 days
I had 3 cows that went down from shortage of calcium in the spring so I throw a pinch of mag 12 (cal mag) in with the 3kgs of meal. And no problems so a bit extra in the diet won't do any harm
No problem at all. Fty here so cows getting between 4 and 8 kgs. Nut is made up for a 4 kg feed rate to cover low yielders, but some cows getting up to near double that. No issues, slow changes
Of course, goes without saying
No shortage of grass down here and after Saturdays 1 inch of rain will have to take out paddocks soon.
Actually dont agree with you there. we would have a lot of intensively drained ground, gravel moles. Perfectly good in Spring and wont burn up in Summer. Would have cost 1500 to 2000 an acre to do.
Tks for the Mg advise👍👍
Have a lot of drained ground here too, I know recently all the talk is of drought but have had a hell of a lot more wet years than dry that have caused more bother than any dry spell
Things are definitely getting drier though. 2012 is the last real wet summer.
2012 was the worst all right in terms of constant rain from may on but a few others with wet months. We are where the rain stops/ starts depending on whether you're travelling east or west. Annual difference of over 200mm in the one parish we're on the wetter side
In the early 1700's there was a dryish spell in Ireland that lasted about 30 years.
Two years went by in this time with little or no rain.
The fluidity is gone from the Atlantic in the last good few years. I think it was last year there was even an easterly wind from Ireland, UK over to Newfoundland. You'd never imagine that occurring.
It's the same amount of rain here in the north west every year 12 to 14 hundred mm.
What age were you then?
21.😎
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Drought is nothing new..
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/analysis-historical-records-shows-ireland-prone-drought
It was more the norm, the last 40 years have been the wettest in Ireland in centuries.
We have had quite a few multi year droughts, they are classified as most of the year dry but a few months wetter, though off the top of my head I think the drought in 1800 lasted 18 months.
We wouldn't cope with a drought like that now..
Our local radio station 103fm would have the Carlow weather man on 24 hours a day. Met eirean would have all the colours of the rainbow warnings
I see Aidan Brennan is talking about managing feed for cows in the current weather but stocking rate is a discussion "for another day".
If the zombie apocalypse happened tomorrow some lads would tell you drive on and just make sure your fertiliser applications are up to date.
