From the start of calving on 23rd January I have missed 3 days grazing this year. This year has been exceptional weather wise though but it's a huge help.
do you get to extend your grazing much at the shoulders to make up for the extra silage use
no great gain in the autumn but a huge boost in the spring if you can get out early
I am on "good" land, but with how common droughts are becoming, what is good land anymore? To put it in context, I have 360ac of tillage on my bounds on one side.
To answer what you are saying, I have silage back in the diet to stretch grass and if no rain in the next ten days to a fortnight it will be close on full winter feeding. Over the last few years I have gotten to the stage that 30% of my silage is fed out during the grazing season because of mini droughts.
I see here we got a bit of rain last night and you can literally see the grass growing today. Any bit of rain here and the cows would have to go in usually so when we are in a drought I can’t imagine for what it’s like for people in good land
For liquid urea ordinary spray nozzles are perfect because it’s absorbed through the leaf. For liquid nitrogen you need special raindrop nozzles because it’s taken up through the soil. Liquid nitrogen sprayed through ordinary nozzles will burn the ring off the grass..and eat the booms of the sprayer.
4 or 5 litres per acre of molasses per acre at 100 litres water per acre. Per acre.
Don't go trying CAN in a sprayer the lime, calcium element will block it. Those that want to use like that in a sprayer use Ammonium Nitrate. Can be got here even if hoo ha was made of it.
I was thinking of 20L in a knapsack and spraying a few m2.
No but you can try, always mix a sample in a bucket first, a bucket is cheaper than a sprayer!
Will you need to change the sprayer nozzles?
100 litres of water. I have never used molasses, always humates, but molasses would be the next best thing. I would imagine a couple of litres would do.
Il try a small bit first, I would be going with a bag of 27.2.5.5/acre, but it's very dry.
So say 16 kgs of urea, how much molasses (as I have some ) and how much water to the acre.
WWill The ban on untreated urea affect foliar applications
We use 16 Kgs to the acre. You will need a carbon source, Humates or molasses and you will need a mixing tank to melt the urea.
Could you use CAN instead of urea for foliar?
About 1/3 of your normal rate e.g. 8 to 12kg/acre.
You probably know this but don't use protected urea, use 80 -100l/ acre of water.
In this weather spray early in the morning or late in the evening and about a week after grazing when there's leaf to take it up.
@ginger22 would give you more detail.
How many kg of urea to the acre, do guys melt for the sprayer, for grazing. I might try a few acres. I can still see fertiliser that I spread a week ago. We got no rain here for a couple of weeks
Dropped from 18 to 12 over the last 6 days.
same here was using a 18%nut but now due to regs14%
Lakeland’s first out of the block with an unchanged milk price for April.
Quelle surprise my piss take of how they would justify holding according to their statement that they will “endeavour “ to pay the best price 😂😂
36 units of n out on the grazing ground since start of year
cold nights, oil in the grass, hinders milk p as well
snap…grass getting stressed and string and low in protein …you need to up protein in nut your feeding for start and if you e grass getting into lower covers
Grass is low in protein.
Milk urea levels have plummeted here. Anyone else experiencing this or any idea of the cause?
Security of supply is very important. And quality too. Some laugh that he got no reply to his ad.
It was where the bulk of their silage was been made too, Joe's masterplan to throw a add up on donedeal looking for silage meadows, has the potential to back-fire spectacularly...
Ni dept of ag are going to be able to find you if you have sfp or not seemingly. If they can do it up there the same will happen here
if there heifers were better I would disagree but they’re not hectic at them so I would agree.
Have a nice heifer (suckler now but thought the wisdom…).
Teats not in great nick as attached. What’s the treatment/approach for these? Tie with a string or similar?
Friend of mine in the midlands was advised by his advisor to sell his payments and charge on. Reckons it'll take 8-10 to find another way to fine him once he keeps the yard right and water quality stays good beside him. Lots of farmer doing it. He's not going for it.
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