Silage 2024

Might be a sad thing to say, but will the project actually make you any money? Not to dishearten you, but that's the reality. Agree, with Bass, wilting is critical, so early Sept is cut off point.

Know a lad that has no silage yet. Is planning to cut the weekend it was not looking great yesterday but forecast has changed. Even at that he will not cut it all as he is waiting for a heat wave in mid July.

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Crazy. The farmer I am talking about is not that old however he is penny wise pound foolish. Has lost cattle the last few winters I think due to quality of the silage. Has a couple of cows not calved and I think they are not incalf now. They were incalf according to the vet at the herd test in October.

I wouldn't let it past early September.

I haven't got anybody to take the fields yet but would work out better if I could. If I make 2nd cut bales and sell them I agree I wont have much profit out of it.

I’ve a neighbour here that knows what I’m doing and everyone else is doing even before we do ….stuck in everyone’s business and mad for gossip but if tables turned and you’d tell him you heard of something he was it he’ll sulk

question for you folks, have a field that is ready to be cut next week for silage, but my father sprayed the docks and thistles, nettles and butter cups in it with mcpa roughly 2 weeks ago ,

This has worked well on the weeds but am wondering is cutting and bailing and wrapping this grass okay since the field was sprayed only recently enough or two weeks ago?
would it effect the silage quality?

On the other side of that we had three neighbours coming to us taking bales in March and April as we had a decent buffer (just about enough as it turned out …. we were down to just over 100 left over I'd say by the time we had everything out). We just asked them to replace the bales over the Summer. We already know that it is likely that one man won't …. and if he does it will be in a few years. The others probably will.

I ne er saud he was a neighbour I replied to your sh!te post but obviously you chose not to read it.

I’m going spreading fertilizer the weekend on ground that was reseeded last year and will be baled tomorrow, what should this be like quality wise the end of August?

You will have about eight weeks from.the weekend to the September 1st. A lot will depend on weather when you are going to cut it. Three bags of 18-6-12 to the acre will give you the option of cutting it from the 20th August on. It may be light but it will be decent stuff

Dam all on my bit of second cut yet. Walked it yesterday. Will be a few more weeks before I will cut. The ground was fare hard when I was walking it, was very surprised. I suppose the wind is drying all before it. Forecast until Monday anyways from Met eireann is broken. Hopefully the temperatures pick up. Very cold in the mornings and evenings. It's really fecking up the growth.

I hate to see anyone caught out. I have often had a surplus and sold off in the month of March but always got a fair price. If not I'd leave it there. I don't think I will have a surplus next winter.

Driving up to look at cattle yesterday there were patches of grass in the boreen centre fierce green, then yellowish the rest of the way. Twas the shade of hawthorn trees keeping the wind off

Any idea what the going rate is for second cut ground? Neighbour approached me to see if I’d be interested. It’s 15 acres and has been slurried after the first cut. Could really do with it this year but have never rented this way before