Here in Monaghan the ever present wind is doing as much drying as the heat.
I may stand corrected regarding the uniqueness of this dry spell according to this article.
Reminds me of the 2018 drought I went to get some water at the local river and there were 5 different farmers with slurry tanks queued waiting for the depth to build up
that hard east wind the last few years was a right pain, at least now that’s not really there, we just got the heat. That east end used to shrivel up grass here no end
Lad are u in ireland north and east wind here today nobody need panic rain is forecast end of month.
Had a couple of cows here last summer, thet had a big milk drop for a week and were off form. So I decided to blood test to see what was going on. It came back with P13. It's like a cow flu. I don't treat it. But very annoying.
I have two like it this week. Do anyone else have it. Do you vacinate?
i have cows with same symptoms here 2 so far this year ,,,,
Common issue on farms, was vaccinating cows with bovipast to cover pi-3. But have had a couple of cows with same symptoms lately, recover within a couple of days without treatment.
My worry would be that my new "expensive" bull would get it. The temperature would probably put feck him up for the season.
Anyone else do anything with p13
Sounds like your visiting me. Grass seed in the ground since the 11th of April. Got a bit of rain Sunday and Monday only around 3mm.
yes grass seeds hit hard here as well but regrowths on silage ground are flying at the moment ,
Good old Aido
After 3+ weeks of no rain and possibly another 2.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
In a fortnight he might be telling us that palm kernel is a great filler.
It's like the twilight zone, they love walking lads of a cliff, latest update from one of the more knowledgeable posters on the weather forms basically saying no rain for the rest of may
Once that heavy dew at night does a runner, you'll see growth rates collapse nationwide depending on how heavy our light your soils are, just like in 2018...
Puts the breaks on here and have the cows on a 30 day rotation last week, following the teagasc rule book I should of taken out an extra 20 acres of paddocks last week instead of keeping them in the rotation, would of been in the proverbial s**t in 10 days if I had of mowed them, and would of been opening up the first cut pit, bought myself at least 2 weeks of grazing by putting the breaks on last week
Could never understand making bales to feed them out a week later
Drought chit chat: Is it a total waste of time spreading parlour washings on reseeds in this weather? They are just up.
That's the nature of newspapers - today's edition tells you what happened yesterday.
This week's IFJ tells you what happened last week, and the expert's advice is already out of date before the paper is printed.
What aidan is saying is spot on for this farm at the moment anyway, grass still growing away, we are up to date on fertilizer. Baled two paddocks on Tuesday. Growth slowing up a bit but you can only farm what's in front of you. Weather forecast are guesswork after 5-7 days. And long range is showing rain for west in a weeks time, which could go either way.
We could have grazed the two paddocks but it would have affected tank and the quality of grass in front of cows for next week. Cows are still doing 2.3kg Ms on 3 kg of meal. If we don't get rain we will see growth collapse but we are 10 days from that. If we do get rain the farm will explode and we will have a lot of very poor quality grass. This time of year grassland decisions are only good for 3-4 days and then you have to look again at situation
Got clear tb test in february so now locked up with 3 month rule … says i can still sell calves up to 6 weeks iv 20 calves a month old that i wouldnt mind selling before test … will this affect them in the ring the fact that they wont be able to go for export because they arent tested or would the exporters test them themselves anyway? Or would i be better off waiting it out when i do my test in fortnight and sell away then?
reseeded 2 fields that were in maize last year on the 19th March. Was a gamble at the time, the light frosts in early April did check it but it has came on alot despite the lack rain. If it got rain it would burst on
And it's the same people every year.
I would say there is plenty of demand beside the exporters this year anyway
He's banking on guaranteed rain, his advice is solely reliant on that, you must of gotten rain in the last fortnight to still be motoring at the above growth rates, all the drier ground on the hills here is growing lows 30's and the drought rocks as I call them are starting to show, once they appear here, it's game over for the drier ground and the lower lying ground has a week to 10 days before it stalls too unless theirs a break in the weather
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/deep-concern-voiced-over-dairy-replacement-stock-issues/
Got 2 mm of thunder rain here yesterday and the grass has shot up out of the ground.
Apparently vaccinating with Bovipast only covers against the virus for about a month. So in my opinion isn't great..
Has your bull got go faster stripes or what.…
Its not a zebra i bought.
Nothing worse mid season and the bull has a break down. Then you start thinking 🤔, sher most are in calf, sher il AI the rest, and then you have a handful of May calvers.
Didn’t read the article. Who is concerned?
In the Journal there’s a similar headline. Some AI company says we need to breed more cows. They have our best interests at heart alright 😜
We got a thunderstorm here yesterday and it came down in absolute buckets altogether. I finished grazing one of our worst paddocks 2 days ago, I had to leave them back into it today, there was an absolute height of grass in there again.
We went doing a bit of fencing during the first dry spell back in April, most people were already looking for rain - only for there being big wide tyres under the tractor and they being fairly new tyres with good grips we would have needed a crane and a couple diggers to get us out. The springs were so bad and the land was so wet the ground nearly just swallowed us up.
A farm like this here goes from being the worst in the world to actually being fairly decent in this kind of weather
The "industry" I guess. Not worried myself anyway.
