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?
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
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This week's IFJ tells you what happened last week, and the expert's advice is already out of date before the paper is printed.
Drought chit chat: Is it a total waste of time spreading parlour washings on reseeds in this weather? They are just up.
Could never understand making bales to feed them out a week later
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
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.
yes grass seeds hit hard here as well but regrowths on silage ground are flying at the moment ,
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.
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
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.
i have cows with same symptoms here 2 so far this year ,,,,
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?
Lad are u in ireland north and east wind here today nobody need panic rain is forecast end of month.
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
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
I may stand corrected regarding the uniqueness of this dry spell according to this article.
Here in Monaghan the ever present wind is doing as much drying as the heat.
128kg N for proper high yielding cows proposed for NI
You boys got off lightly with only the 3 bands, but then again most of you on here are nowhere near the 10,000 litres 😄
Jeez what will it be like after another week of Sun and high temps on the way…..
Visiting Dairy relations in Tipp atm and the drought is hitting one of their reseeds hard - the clover is coming threw but the grass is really struggling
You must've prayed real hard for that, nothing but blue sky's here in midlands, ya'd forgive a lad for putting down a bit of hay looking at the outlook for the week ahead.
It's hard to know what land will be good land if the weather keeps acting up with climate change,and what it means for farming.
The pressure cycles really seem to be getting stuck in place for longer now, not to mind if the gulf stream starts to wobble.
I think this is a unique spell of dry weather, but we've been getting more and more late spring east influences with the last decade.
The Good Lord is after giving us an hour of foliar N laden thunder rain here, and me of little faith!
Hi lads, looking for some second hand cubicle mats and a few second mushroom cubicles cork area (I’m blarney/ Grenagh )
Take it if You can get it. Land like that is no good to anyone. 🤔
40k an acre and I'll probably cash in
Solar panels, man!
Clean energy, etc. (apart from the materials, cost to build and transport, set up costs and maintenance, and eventual disposal)
That dry ground in a low rainfall area is going to be worthless in another few years. Sell now while ye have the chance. 🤣😂
Would be similar here. Land cracking up here so will have to keep a serious eye on what grass is here. Have covers fit for silage. Waited to see what rain fell the weekend, feck all, so looks like I'll have to graze them.
There used to be a poster here from wicklow. From what I remember he used to feed an awful lot of silage in July August every year. Think iv fed every year since 2018
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