Grazing 2025

Hi all. Attached is my soil sample results.

All ground already got a bag of protected urea to the acre. I'm to tight on grass. What should I be spreading and how to you calculate type of fert to apply.

I know I need lime on a small bit, buth this is only 2 small plots up on the side of a mountain. A lime spreader wouldn't get up to them fields. Might get a bag of granulated lime out on them, or I might spread some with a shovel and scoop of the tractor.

Thanks for any advice

How long of a rotation are you doing on fields lads?

Off topic lads but is there a time limit for cutting silage after spreading fertiliser that doesn't contain Nitrogen?

Applied 0:7:30 5 weeks ago to a reseeded field of red clover silage I put in last year. Decent crop in place, was thinking of cutting it next week

spread away. Bits of rain falling over the next week. Ideal time with the growth taking off.

Same here at last.

According to farm theroy id doesn't matter if there is some nitrogen in the grass he just cuts when it suits. Last year I done my second cut a bit early as the weather was good I didn't wait the correct amount of weeks and stuff was perfect no issues.

Silage will be black if the nitrogen hasn’t been used up. A good wilt in the sun will sort it out if nitrogen not fully used up.
All depends what you are feeding it to. If stores and weanlings it’s as important to have it dry as have the dmd high. Had 72 dmd for first cut last year and 79 for second cut. They ate it all up the same and complained about none of it.
All the good silage in the world won’t make up for not getting cattle out early in the spring.

left it down for 2days and stuff was great cattle went mad for it think it was 73 and 30dm. The silage you made at 79%dmd would you even need to supplement with that silage id imagine you would get 0.7-0.8kg daily gain

I saw a couple of bailers in fields this morning starting baling which I think is madness just as grass is growing well your crop will bulk up massive in the next 3 weeks, I cannot figure out why you'd cut and bale soft wet grass like grass was this morning and then go out with expensive fertiliser next week to try and grow more grass when it should be left growing for another couple of weeks

Were they grazing paddocks gone strong or the actual silage?

Silage. I think a lot of this madness is just to be boasting about how early they can cut silage

I doubt it, I’ve fields that would do 4-6 bales at the moment that were cleared off not long back. It was a slow start but it’s bursting on now. Mine however won’t have used up the nitrogen for another week or two.

Slurry put out in January fertiliser in February/ March these lads are only baling now because they see or hear someone else doing it they'll only get max 5 bales per acre but that doesn't matter to these lads

I graze all silage ground in march close for silage and bale at earliest end of May or first week of June and always have minimum 10 fusion bales per acre and up to 15 bales per acre and never lower than mid 70 dmd and have tested silage made in July and have got almost 80 dmd and 30 dm

2018 was very similar, and we all know what followed, I reckon we are in for a dry

Bought a few store bullocks and let them out to grass the f*ckers went mad running into fences running through fences eventually they stopped running through the fences but kept running up to it and getting a stink the poor fuckers must have took a shook 10times or more each they started to settle a little in the evening but there hyper I think these have never being out to grass ever before there yearlings and id say they where kept in all year round. anyone come across this before? I have them in a fairly bare field but its surrounded with a 8-10k volt fence I didn't want to open the gate to let them into fresh grass until they settle.

Also they have being squeezed but some of them have big bags how long can they take to go down look to be done maybe 6weeks some have done down.