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.
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and possibly Wednesday looking the best spell in the next week or ten days.
Is that the first slurry on the meadows? What rate did you use
I never spread fertilizer before slurry, wouldn’t have a clue where I was driving for a start. Cut on the 22nd and it got a good dose of slurry a few days after. Will give it 60 or 70 units of n this wknd and will try to get it cut the 2nd week of July.
No Silage ground got slurry in mid April except for a single 3.5 acre silage paddock as we did not graze it. Some if the dilagecarea is high in K so ot only got a lightcover 1200 gallons/ acre and only got 1500 in thr spring. Rest got 1800 this time and 3k last time. Paddock tgat got no slurry in spring got 3k gallons/ acre this time.
Have you not got GPS....😄😄.
Biggest paddock is 5 acres. Easy enough to spread. The rain was too good an opportunity to pass up. Contractor rang me Tuesday evening as I has given him a heads up when I was cutting the silage.
Was at a beef discussion last Friday. Some lads had hesitated about cutting thinking weather would settle. I was watching and when the window opened I went for it. It was the young lad that spotted the rain fir Monday night.
is that nearly 60 hours down? For young stock you’d be better off at half that time. am I reading that correctly that you spread slurry 3 days after PU? https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/spreading-slurry-heres-how-long-you-need-to-wait-before-applying-urea/
The weather doesn't look great from next Thursday on so I will be cutting all this weekend and baling on Monday. This could be as good as the weather gets this year
Wat part of country u in limo
I'm the midlands well fingers crossed I can get in done being mowed this evening shook out tomorrow and will lift it monday. I'm working all weekend so this is the best I can do with it
Thinking of mowing and bailing tomorrow, don't see any other choice for me. North West
I see your an eternal optimist.
Getting lovely stuff made.
Ya spread PU two days after slurry. Got showers both nights. No sign of the fertlizer even Tuesday not to mind Wednesday. The problem is coating the granula with slurry. Only spread half the applicof PU and the slurry was spread with a dribble bar.
My silage is mostly for stores. As I feed no ration during the winter dry silage has a serious advantage. Could have gone Friday evening but had committed other wise to the contractor. Not complaining properly 3 bakes to the acre less than Friday evening a saving in the order of 900 euro between plastic and contractor baling charges. That is 3 ton if ration at todays prices
a period of soft weather wouldn’t go astray around the south east imo. Savage drying wind there the last 7 days and it’s taken a lot of moisture out of the ground
why risk putting slurry on 3 days after fertiliser.🤔🤔🤔
agree re dry silage but it’s plenty dry enough after 24-30 hours in good conditions. You’ve lost a lot of your protein after a 60 hour plus wilt which is even more important in store cattle so it’s far from a €900 saving.
Anyways each to their own…
A strong yellow card for statements like that……..
Go away ya fooker 😬😬🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️😁
I’d rather not be looking for it but that wind has done serious drying. Top of the ground has gone lock a rock in a week
that’s a straight red
Dunno, I'd be inclined to give him a black card only, give the young lad a chance.
How much fertilizer and type should I be applying for silage fields that has already had 1st cut silage. I am going to have a 2nd cut in the same fields but won't have enough slurry to cover these fields.
Have you soil samples done recently? you need at least 60 units of nitrogen to get any sort of decent yield. Teagasc have details of what you need if you search it up
I have. My instructor told me there was too many ps in the ground so I spread urea for the first cut and crop turned out quite well. Other years these fields would get slurry after first cut but i don't have enough slurry this year to spread it. Will I get away with 1.5 bags of urea to the acre?
I think they are a sip tedder but I am open to correction as lely is also owned my MF
Nobody wants more rain but the death penalty is a bit harsh.
I'm thinking of a gift grub sketch from when sky got the gaa coverage. They weredoing the soccer commentators not understanding the rules. They were thinking yellow or red card, the ref showed a black card and they thought the player had been sentenced to death for the tackle.
Yeah that’s 69 units of n but use the protected urea this time of the year.
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Agco own both lely and sip/fella
You can buy a lely or a fella mower/Tedder/rake in Fendt i or mf colours
That's what I have.
Sweet Jesus put out some k as well or you're going to rob the fields blind
So how do you know which is the Lely rake when buying as I'm sure the Lely is the better rake to the sip
Place is like iron here. That constant breeze has slowed grass growth big time. It can rain all it wants after Wednesday 😁
Same here
