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.
Will go tuesday here, 25 acres of it already been zero-grazed and will have to keep another 15 for zero-grazing for the next 10 days, growth still isnt hetic, did you start feeding out any of this years 1st cut yet
Are you applying 2500 gal before first and second cut?
feeding bales that were made in April
To cattle outside or do you have some stock in?
Ya slurry for both cuts. My k in the tests might be on the lower side, but I still is getting large yields the past 20 years. My neighbour tested his land this year ever. The very bottom of index 1 for K. He always takes a big cut of silage.
So the silage must just suck up whatever K he is putting out. Or is it the type of land. A lot of the land in the country must be short of K. Which is an easy fix thankfully
milking cows
Ud imagine that would be enough to bring up your index's to a good enough level I'm sure you have being doing this for years. Was told before that if lime is low on the land it can lock up the k so by just increasing the ph the k index can go up. Hard to keep it all right I know a lot of lads that never test there land and just apply 3 bags of cut sward every year regardless and they are happy enough.
Will call my contractor in the morning and If he can't draw slurry to this land for me I will go with 3 bags of 18-6-12 and then either a bag of can to the acre or 1/2 bag or PU 2 weeks later. and cut it as early as possible
18 6 12 not worth a shite either after taking 10 bales per acres off and looking for 6 more
2 bags of 0 7 30 and 60-70’units N
If no P allowance go with a bag of mop or even 1.5 bags
they’re would be no fodder issues in this country if lads fed grass like an actual crop
It just shows that if you can buy silage at 30 to 40 euros a bale for good silage, you are getting a bargain, when you consider nutrient loss.
And of course the most important thing is weather. Any fool can grow grass In mild weather, while the expert cannot grow it in hard.
Would I be ok to throw a bag per acre of MOP out at the tail end of the year on silage fields and then soil sample in the spring or will it come back in the test?
Want to get my K's right and see how my P's are next year.
Spread no Ps this year but got slurry out after silage was cut, it's greening up nicely.
Hi lads wat price would be a fair price just to rake and bale 145 bales of silage no cut or wrap he has his own mower and wrapper
€1600
400€
Raking is 5 euro an acre
Fusions without wrap is 6.50 for net or 7.50 for film on film
Baling for hay is 3wuro
Tks lads
Looking like we are going to get good dry settled weather from Saturday on with the possibility of temperatures in the 20’s for a few days from Tuesday on🙂
About time we caught a break.
Did you forget a 1 before the 4??
Not sure if locally you would get anyone to rake for 5/acre, probably another 3-4 with it, but generally if its the same lad doing it and it not a very low bale count they give a set price and discount the raking
8-9/bale would be a fairish price
it’s 6.50 a bale for a fusion that’s baling and wrapping
€10 for baling and wrapping here. €11 with barrel wrap. €5.50 for hay. Raking €15 acre. With fusion.
Exactly the same here
Tenner an ac to rake and €3.50 a bale to wrap plus vat is what I charge.
You must be gone back 15 years in time.
Raking will be €10 per acre minimum and there’s plenty of lads charging €15+.
Baling on its own, no wrapping will be around the €6.
Baling for hay would be around €5 a bale. Maybe a bit more if small fields in haybob rows and a bit less if bigger fields and 30ft rows.
that’s rediculous prices
Is it any wonder I have all my own gear
so your saying a lad coming in to rake my first cut would get 3000 euros just for raking
If you’ve 300 acres of first cut then yes, that’s what he’d be getting. Maybe for a 300 acre job in one block you’ll negotiate a euro or 2 better rate but the op has 145 bales so I assume only 15 or so acres.
The chap that had been doing silage here the past 5 years decided to charge us full price on the 3 cuts last year always knocked of a few k previously as cuts would be light, changed to another man thats paid by the wagon load at 65 a load and 9 euro raking this year, bought a loader to shove up in-house….
Hes working out at 44 euro a acre, the other lad was 70 and 30 a acre for the loader
ffs it 10 per bale here for fusion with film …9 with net plus plastic ….10/acre to take
I can’t get over what lads are paying its rediculous
My silage would cost 100000 a year at those rates
No wonder there’s so many shiny new outfits around
Sounds like your contractors are under charging - busy fools if ya will. Count yourself lucky
Here raking is €10/ac. Baling and wrapping is €8.50
He’s not using contractors as he has all his own gear so I assume either just a bad guess at what charges should be or deliberately giving low figures to cause a bit of controversy and debate!
