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Silage 2024

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  • #62
    moneyheer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭moneyheer


    Is it not 60 units the maximum in spring for silage



  • #63
    twin_beacon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭twin_beacon


    We were planning on reseeding around 7 acres with a Red Clover, and Perennial Ryegrass and getting 3 cuts off it (4 if the weather allowed), but with the spring being so wet, that won't be happening this year. What are peoples thoughts on red clover silage? I know the feed value is great IF its harvested at the correct time, and the weather is good at the time of harvesting and baling. My concern is the weather in general, as clover shouldn't be tedded out



  • #64
    weatherbyfoxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭weatherbyfoxer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037179#Comment_122037179

    In my 3rd year of 8 acres of red clover here,..its good but not all what it's hyped up to be either.You have to Mow it every 6-8 weeks and tedding it out for 48 hours is a must unless there is serious wind an heat.If you don't you will end up with soggy bales full of liquid.once open the bales needs to be fed within 24hrs or it will start to go off.The crop need plenty of K and sulphur to last longterm.Not a whole pile in the feed difference between it and good grass silage to be honest



  • #65
    Silverdream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Silverdream


    Slurry going out on grazed meadows this weekend. Ground conditions have improved in the west over the last few days, still a lot of land I cant travel on but the silage ground is good to go now. I expect every tanker in the country to be in operation this weekend as it's getting late for slurry from now on.

    3k+ per acre I'm going to tar the fields and I've no shortage as the slurry is over the slats now.



  • #66
    twin_beacon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭twin_beacon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037481#Comment_122037481

    Thanks for that.



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  • #67
    limo_100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭limo_100


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037586#Comment_122037586

    When would you be hoping to cut your first cut? Going to pick up the fertiliser this evening for the silage ground was hoping to get it out over the weekend but that could be Tuesday now with the way the weather was all week. Meadows still wet



  • #68
    roosterman71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    I'm dedicating Saturday to getting all the fertiliser out. Have to go collect it in the morning. Fingers crossed the Leyland starts to do it's biggest job of the year!



  • #69
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭White Clover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122038707#Comment_122038707

    Is the Leyland on haulage or spreading duties? Don't forget a few pictures of her in action!



  • #70
    roosterman71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Spreading duties. Revved to the last so it keeps the auld abbey lifted. Any drop in revs corresponds to a drop on the spreader



  • #71
    Omallep2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Omallep2


    Be careful going too heavy as it will likely cake



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  • #72
    Silverdream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Silverdream


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122038527#Comment_122038527

    Middle of June, its been grazed fair tight over the last week and it's a bit cut up but not too bad. I usually let it grow into a jungle so that I get a right big crop. I then get a good second crop about 10 weeks later.



  • #73
    roosterman71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122038737#Comment_122038737
    2024-04-20 13.24.50.jpg 2024-04-20 12.36.31.jpg

    Try not cream yer pants 😁



  • #74
    Dunedin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122044299#Comment_122044299

    both the tractor and Willy wag in great shape. 👏👏



  • #75
    Seadin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,384 ✭✭✭Seadin


    I got 13 acres spread today with the quad bike. Will be doing the rest tomorrow as I have a few fields now left rented for silage.



  • #76
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122034023#Comment_122034023

    Would you not be afraid of milk fever with that kind of K and mushy silage?

    That much acid on the soil in one belt is tough going too.

    Post edited by Castlekeeper on

    “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.” George Orwell.



  • #77
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122044992#Comment_122044992

    no never had an issue. If you put it on the crop will use it up unless you’re in high index 3 or more imo

    There’s not nearly enough K going out on silage or grazing ground imo



  • #78
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037481#Comment_122037481

    I've often heard such reports but I'm heading into my fourth year with a red clover mix and haven't had those experiences. I cut it 3 times most years and graze with weanlings, I cut it 4 once but I fed those last bales straight away. I've only tedded it out once or twice in that time, and I've never had a soggy bale, and we live in a wet part of country. Super silage, no issue with preservation, and we'd always feed it to weanlings and heifers as with the extra protein in it, there's no need for any special ration.

    And all with no N fertiliser, just a bit of lime and polysulphate along with the slurry.

    Maybe it's because it's part of a diverse seed mix of grass and other clovers etc? It might be different if it was just a plain ryegrass mix.

    A lot of docks coming back into ours unfortunately, but they were there before we sat it.

    “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.” George Orwell.



  • #79
    emaherx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,639 ✭✭✭emaherx


    img_1_1713553976053.jpg

    Silage 2024

    Picture borrowed from FB



  • #80
    Dunedin
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122045112#Comment_122045112

    I’d say even Bass would ted the grass after that………



  • #81
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭stanflt


    made a start

    IMG_8056.jpeg


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  • #82
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Knocking the dry ground aswell

    20240421_152355.jpg


  • #83
    older by the day
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭older by the day


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122045112#Comment_122045112

    Is she remotely driven, with the thing on top of the cab



  • #84
    limo_100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭limo_100


    Got most of meadows shock today was disapointted that one of the fields was just to wet. Never had to skip it before in the last 25years was always able to get it done with the rest of them. I'll give it a week and then follow it up with the harrow hopefully its soaked by then



  • #85
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭visatorro


    I dont think I'll get my contractor for a fortnight. With all the sowing he has to do



  • #86
    morphy87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭morphy87


    I have a field, a very dry field that I cut every year for silage but because of the wet conditions this field was poisoned with slurry, would I be better to graze this or cut it?



  • #87
    green daries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭green daries


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122051439#Comment_122051439

    Cut it twill grow unreal



  • #88
    morphy87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭morphy87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122051509#Comment_122051509

    all I’m concerned about would too much slurry effect the silage?



  • #89
    mr.stonewall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,210 ✭✭✭mr.stonewall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122051530#Comment_122051530

    If it's not on the leaf, cut wilt and bale. Better to use the slurry that's in the soil to drive regrowth



  • #90
    morphy87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭morphy87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122051552#Comment_122051552

    it hasn’t got slurry in 3 weeks



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  • #91
    Omallep2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Omallep2


    Leave it another 3 ans cut it



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