As the title says is it too early to spread fertiliser on grazing land. Land is in great condition but just worried it might be to early
Ground is drying nicely, have fields that are drying for the first time since spring 23
Wasnt it the spring of 22 that had a similar cool march/April, get little to know response that year from memory to early fert, the east wind has been relentless here, last time it blew for this long was 2018, hopefully their isn't a repeat of that year re drought
I got Urea down last week before a good shower washed it in that night. Temperatures have been poor since, but has much nitrogen been wasted over this week or are the 2 units per day preserved for when temps rise?
We're still in far better shape than this time last year anyway, growth took forever to get going. Milder air due this week too, things should start to pick up.
Metrociel.fr and wxcharts.com.
Watch the main 2 models of the ECM and GFS
Thanks.
Any websites you can link there Stonewall? Appreciate it.
Forget the app and start looking at the weather models. The app is an interpretation of one of 4 daily runs of the weather models. Look at the trends that are happening in the model runs. Worst case have a look at the weather section on boards. Some excellent posters there
I have cattle out at the moment grazing a bit that got slurry in late January, will be back in by the weekend I'd say.
Was going to go with Urea with s the end of the week for grazing ground but is the rain forecast a bit much or chance on?
The met eireann app changes more than a woman.
Soil is needing warmth from the air and sun to heat the soiled up past 6. This will come. The only saviour at the moment is the high DM in grass to keep stock content.
No bag out yet, but working through grazing silage ground and following with slurry. Took a notion yesterday morning and let out the suckler cows due to calve a meadow that ear marked for hay.
Did most of the farm here with half a bag of urea per acre on the 2nd of March. Worst response I have seen in memory.Looking like I won't get to graze silage ground now either,will probably give it 2500 gallons/acre this week and a 1.5 bags of urea+s in 7-10 days time after the slurry..Will cut towards the end of May hopefully
On light,sandy soil here and finding everywhere hard and cold.Will start emptying sheds here next week hopefully
No f£<",*8,g clover in my 9 acres reseed which was cream of the crop last year.
Anyway we have our health.
Its a long time since I have seen places so hungry, I had one field that had a nice cover and was green, it’s now gone brown
Auld lad down the road had a phase 'it's a hungry lean time'. It sure rings true around these parts.
no im not new to farming, running a good profitable beef enterprise with a job,just I’m always looking for ways to improve things, as you can never learn enough.
Haven’t much experience with soil fertility as my own farm is fine fertility wise, just a place I took on a long term lease is very poor and haven’t exsperience of dealing with this issue
Sorry if my questions on boards are causing you offence
murphy don’t take this the wrong way. But you seem very inexperienced and constantly looking for advise on every little part of farming especially fertility of land. are you new to farming? You might be as well to join a farmer group to learn some practical tips . again here is useful as a sounding board but you need to have your own plan and not to be guided by complete anayomous strangers.
I never mind spreading when they are giving rain but for most people here how much rain would be too much to chance spreading?
I spread some urea last week, we got a little rain Fri evening. Will it be ok
only issue I have is if the weather breaks it could break hard and might not get out on the wetter fields then. Also temps are suppose to rise towards the end of the week
you can say that again
bitter cold day today in the midlands.
I think once lads see one passes working that they have to spread fertiliser. There’s cert o kindness today. Me tractor is finding it hard to start these last few days.
was thinking of going with fertilizer on meadows and pasture ground between this week and next week I think I should be ok at this point? won't get to much done this week but will aim to get the wetter fields done this week.
Ground conditions here are great but everywhere looks so hungry, this week was freezing, they are giving it to warm up the weekend so I will hopefully spread then
I was thinking of going early next week with a light coat of slurry on some grazing ground before the weather breaks, would this be a good idea??
I be inclined to leave it in the bag till it becomes Abit milder. Hopefully the week ahead will bring some kindness. Passed a river yesterday and couldn't believe how low it was. Water springs will be in trouble next.
Have urea to spread lightly..... guessing best hold off till rain forecast as don't want it melting into air…??
Saw 3-4 spreaders out today on my travels. It’ll grow nothing in the bag, as a man says.
was spreading today and hit silage ground last week
walked the silage ground today and you can see the growth but also the compaction from slurry tanks
ground is in fantastic order now with us
a huge difference from last year but I can see from looking over the hedges that silage is tight in most yards
Same conditions here.
Fertiliser staying in the shed till late next week.
The lowest it got here was 1.8c about 3am.
The hash weather is withering up the grass that's there here anyway. Just walked a sod that had slurry last autumn and potash applied. Should be bright green and leaping out of it. About 30% of it is burnt brown. It's silage ground so definitely may be skint and grazed before closing.
My father tells me it will be 16, 17 degrees Thursday and Friday again.
All I can say is that I didn't have it anyway.
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