Do you put it in the pit?.
Yeah layed a new small slab last year for it. Put earth banks on it during the summer
22ft x 100 ft
How many acres would it take to fill that size?
Why is the dribble bar bad for the soil?
17 22 ft trailers came off 10 acres and there’s still 20 ft of space at the front
I have the old style steel feed augers in the parlour. About 4” in diameter. Currently have 30 year old home made fittings between the augers and the feeders, however these are no longer mouse proof.
What is the proper name for the connector between the feeder and auger? Are they still available for the old steel auger systems. Thanks folks
All the water being drawn in to agitate the slurry and extra slurry to spread, that and the extra steel and production to make dribble bars. Compaction and higher use of diesel. I bet if the sums were calculated it wouldn't be much benefit for the environment
No extra water drawn in here so no extra slurry to spread. Pipe onto the agitator and parlour washings pumped to slurry tanks is plenty. Have downpipes set up that I can divert them but havent had to do it yet. Extra diesel usage is small too, the macerator puts a little extra draw on the tractor but she still spreads at about 1200revs.
I am growing as much grass and am down almost 25% on fertiliser usage as I can follow cows with watery slurry. That for me is the real win.
Dribble bars empty the tanker almost twice as fast as splashplate .....huge saving in fuel ⛽️. Time and service costs if you can't spread it with a Dribble bar it's too thick to be spreading it anyways. Big coat of thick slurry sets grass back for days and days
Top tip to speed up slurry spreading, cut the outlet hole on the rubber at the back bigger. More is able to get out and you can drive on a bit faster. Takes me less than 3 minutes to empty 2000g
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Edit to say half the comment didn't load should have read (ya😃 I had that done previously and still faster
A contractor told me before that 1 trailer equalled about one acre. I heard the ginger warrior today saying that one acre of maize is like 3 or 4 acres of grass silage.
I have a 6 acre field on the outfarm that I'm thinking about for it. Bit muddy and a heavy nature but not a swamp. About 300 to 350 feet over sea level. I suppose it would cost me 10 or 12k to grow and pit anyway. Finding somewhere to pot it would be the next problem then.
You dont want to grow maize in in a cold muddy field.
A neighbour of mine sat it late this year and it struggled I'd say. It's hilly too. Looking forward to seeing the harvest soon.
If you're gonna do maize would want to be good ground not heavy, it's costly enough without having poor crops.
What's ration coming in at for ye? 375 for a 14% nut here, staying stubbornly high
was in France about a mth ago... saw some serious crops of maize... was telling a lad bout em when i came home.. he said a buunch of kerry farmers went to france yrs ago on a farm tour and when they saw the crops of maize and the size of the cob on em.. they figured farmers in ireland were wasting their time growing maize as they could only get half the crop compared to the french farmers.....
365 0.97 ufl 17% p
390 for a superdy superdy nut with magic fairy dust. How ever I get a few ton of maize meal mixed in for 310
395 I think I paid for the last load of 15% with megalac, actisaf and a good mineral pack. Not allowed get a higher protein nut - more BS.
I'll keep improving my grass silage for another while and see how that goes. I have too much ground on the outfarm really. Not the worst complaint to have.
Priced yesterday for 15% off a crowd I normally don't buy off, 350
Maize isn't always great in France either, lack of moisture biggest problem. In fairness our maize is looking very good this year, two full cobs and still green and growing.
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I’d be buying dairy nut by UFL also, not protein.
UFL = Unitè. Fourragère. Lait. = 1kg barley.
UFL is a closely guarded secret. You would be lucky to get an approximate figure and it is never written down.
One of first questions I ask along with ingridents list from top to bottom …wouldn’t be too impressed with pk ,wheat feed ,pat hulls etc anywhere near top ……feed milk are totally pulling the piss this year with spec of nuts and what there charging ……there’s definetly not the same response from feed either this year …..there’s a lot of substandard straights I think comming out of Black Sea region
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Wtf. It’s surely obligatory to supply UFL with feed?
Protein on a grass based diet is of very little importance.
I’m in the market for a Brune breeding bull. Did you mention that you run a herd of them?
Yes we have some Brown Swiss but dont have any bulls to sell at the moment.
Would a calf interest you next Spring. We are breeding all to polled bulls now.
Maize, barley, sugar beet pulp, distillers, soya bean meal are the main ingredients in mine. They would have gone cheaper if I swapped beet pulp for hulls but that would be lower energy
