How's the silage ground traveling this year?
Grazed off? Slurry out? Fert spread?
Or is it like a bog at the moment, a good year for rewetting.
This is what I'm doing based on my soil samples and no slurry (was discussing with Advisor). Its going to be the 1st year that slurry hasn't being on the ground for silage.
That what Id fear is a drought.
Don't suppose you know when this drought going to start???????
Very light soil here, our silage headed out and got stemmy in may last year year during the dry spell. The world didn’t come to an end. Maybe fed a little extra meal at stages, still 4 to 5 weeks fodder left and looks it might be needed.
As much as I know is something. The sooner the better. I would nearly take 2 of them
Would it be ok to take a cut off fresh reseed sown in September, didn't get any fertilizer or grazing due to the weather?
Very soft ground at the moment.
Id be a shame to make a mess of it after getting the reseed done
Yea, I thought it was advisable to leave the reseed for a year to tiller out before taking a cut from it.
Not nearly enough. 3 bags of 0 7 30, 2 at the very least and 80 units of N
that’s what we put on any ground that doesn’t get slurry. You’ll get the crop if you put it on
How many units are in a bag of can? and how many bags of can do you put out per acre after the 0-7-30. Do you apply both at the same time?
27 unit of can in a bag. So to get to the magic 80 units, you will need 3 bags/ac. If it was me I would spread 1.5 bags of can and the 0-7-30 at the next available opportunity and follow up 3 weeks later with the remaining N. Only if it suited. The amount of 0-7-30 will depend on the soil indexes.
If you want a crop of quality, you will have to feed it. Skimping on N will also drop the protein of the silage
the best option is to graze any new reseed first with sheep as it’s easy on the ground and will be grazed tight and it’ll help the tillering out.
I have new reseed that I’ve been waiting patiently since last September to graze but simply too wet to even walk out in 😡😡
However, problem at rhr minute is the grass is growing and it’s still too wet to look out in and soon the grass will be too strong to graze.
So there’ll be no choice but to just cut for silage if the weather takes up any time in the next few years.
Hearing that around here too the last few days fella with pipes had to pull out of a place yesterday.…
Just finished grazing the siale ground yesterday. It's in good shape for slurry now, it's a good dry field. There is a big patch in the middle that never grows anything other than tall stalky grass. I don't want to go reseeding the field as others are penned in for this and next year so I was wondering if I spread some seed with fert spreader on that patch with fert spreader before slurry would it be any good or a waste of time.
Say your silage field K is index 3, so the recommended K application is 90 units or whatever
Is this 90 units supposed to go on before or after silage is cut? It's one thing that gets me every year.
I have plenty of slurry but it's too late to go out pre-cut now esp with a dribble bar. So after would be highly desirable
Last year the silage ground got no slurry so I put on a bag of Potash per acre with the silage fertilizer.
Was meant to put another bag out at the end of the year but weather didn't allow.
So will do same again this year.
Sorry in simpler terms, the field is at index 3, does this mean
a) it's ideal for growing silage now with just N application needed, and the recommended 90 units (etc) of K should be given afterwards to build the field index back to 3 post-silage?
b) Alternatively, what would applying 90 units beforehand do, would the silage be better? Or is it the same result for silage, but keeps the field at index 3 post-cutting.
When were the samples taken to determine the index? If this year, yer probably OK to spread the K after cutting
Yea samples were early January and no pending slurry/dung distorting results
Probably OK to go after cutting then to replace what's taken
I would go with a bag of MOP (50 units ) if it was me
You will get a yeild response by putting it on
If cutting in mid May is it too late to throw out the MOP on a heavy cover?
To late to spread much K,will end up with luxury uptake,better off going with it later in the year
I think I'll have to go with 18.6-0-15 +S as my P is index 4.
3 bags to the acre and cut mid May, it's has good cover already as hasn't been grazed or got slurry at all.
Silage related question guys,
What are lads charging per acre for
(a) silage let ground with the fertiliser spread.
(b) Silage let ground without the fertiliser spread
Thanks
I would probably prefer too spread it myself soo someone wouldn't come in with a few bags of urea and rob your ground
Have slurry out on the pasture ground about a month hoping to get out this weekend and spread abit of urea on it add some bulk to it would a bag to acre be ok or a half bag be good enough?
A.. depends on what fertiliser was spread & when it was purchased
B.. 175/acre for first cut here
I put out 90 units of K on silage ground on Sunday. Will be cut the last week of may
Imo it's way too much as we head to may but each to their own
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