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.
I took first cut the last week in May. It got slurry and about 60 units of N. There is a nice cover on it now. It needs heat now to push ot along.
Would €1K get it? What's having it worth to you is the question?
done our main 1st cut 1/2 June. It got 2000 gallons of slurry 2 weeks ago and 2.5 bags of cut sward yesterday. Greening up but needs growthy weather.
Regrowth has been quite slow, so winter supplies might be tight enough around the country.
allowing €14 to mow rake bale. €3.50 for plastic and €1.50 to draw in, etc. that works out €29 a bale which would be a low price. Maybe €15 a bale would be a fair price. .
All in what would be a fair price to buy / sell bales out of the field at the moment?
i.e. Contractor will mow, bale and wrap, fertiliser already spread and customer will come to field with loader, trailer and draw them away from the field
Anyone bailing this week?
Have second cut field to bale, not sure wether to hold off or pull the trigger
it’s costing in the region of €20 to get bales made and stacked in the yard. I’ve given €40 for this years bales from early grass (reseeded 3 years ago).
So anywhere between €15 and €20 depending on grass quality and how well you know the person/favours done in the past etc.
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Was planning on, but more rain came than expected last night, I'll see how the ground is tomorrow.
I'd say €10 + fertilizer cost + harvesting cost
Knocked some Monday and more today
knocking 20 ac tomorrow hopefully, it’s well shot out, cut 7.5 weeks ago
That's a serious 2nd cut. Is that Italian or a silage mix? What fertilizer did it get?
hybrid i sowed last august after whole crop
I’m sorry I sowed in hindsight but I wanted to get a crop of silage off the ground before winter arrived and it did that so I shouldn’t be complaining
It got 3500 gallons of slurry and 65 units of urea. seed heads appeared 4 weeks after 1st cut so I just let it on and got a bulky crop
Going to cut out the second cut here today and pick it tomorrow. 50 ac, it should fill the second pit. I'll stop another bit again because I'll need about 250 bales aswell.
walked my second cut today and I was a little bit disappointed with it not sure if it’s just with the cold weather but some of the field is light and has some yellowish patches like it ran out of nitrogen but it couldn’t have got 2bags 18-6–12 and a bag of pu so over 80 units.
you can see it’s doing well but the far side of the field is yellowish and poorer
same in this pic at the bottom of the hill
what do people think is it just the year that’s in it with the north wind and lack of heat or should I go with another bag of can to the acre?
Weather alright. Mine is similar. I am hopeful it will recover somewhat as the temperatures are Abit better the last few days. From your pictures it seems to be a good butt on it so it maybe a ok of a crop.Be interesting to see how it be in the next 10 days.
when was it spread?
19th of June so 4 weeks done this Wednesday
The max the crop has taken up so, at this point is 56 units N.
Just wondering does anyone think the department would have the brains to ease up on the Fertiliser register to encourage lads to grow a second/ third cut in September to help ease the looming fodder crisis... it could save paying a subsidise next spring to import it from the UK.
Not a hope thar falls at the first hurdle of it being practical and joined up thinking 🤔 😄
And number two gibberish gibbons and cabbages eamon will probably chain themselves to dept buildings in protest
got sone second cut bales yesterday. Blessed with the weather, got no rain at all despite it being forecast
10.5 bales per ac, it is very stemmy but will be fine for dry cows. Mowed it early Friday afternoon, raked up that evening and baled by early afternoon yesterday. Was half sorry I didn’t have the time to tedd it but it dried out nicely without it
Do you?
No point in going with extra N IMO. It's got 80 units. It needs heat. We have plenty of rain got grass needs a fortnight of sunshine. How long is it since it was cut.
Have ye went past the 1000 bale mark yet, one savage advantage of bales vs pit is the above imstead of lumping it all into a pit
Have a few acres down on out farm. Mowed Friday, raked yesterday, got a bit of rain last night. Will be baled today. Better looking at it than looking for it
@emaherx I think there should be something done to help / encourage farmers try and get more fodder saved before the winter. I made stuff yesterday and I am happy I have enough. But talking to my contractor he was telling me some farms are in a very difficult situation.. with a portion of their first cut been fed and second cuts not growing.
