Silage 2024

Oh stop being such a hippie, times have changed, food contamination, auto immune disorders, cancers etc. are badges of progress.

No point in baling water especially in this weather when you don't have to, wait until the dew is dried off before baling.

This sounds like a pretty impressive grass seed in fairness the DLF 4N Grazer.

I see Karen Moynihan has a fine crop of grass this year from her reseed last year using Tipperary Grass No 3A I think it was.

Top 5 Extend would be another popular seed in these parts.

It wouldn't be what ya call wet or even damp. Only ask because from feeding the cows over the winter, they went for the wetter silage over the dry stuff every time.

You know what they say about assumptions? Now a bit less of themessenger shooting please?

The OP proposed cutting silage 5 days or less after "spraying off" with something and subsequently engaged in pedantic comments.

I've no idea if label guidelines are being followed or not.

Maybe re-read my post, but I'll try and explain anyway. Glyphosate is a powerful and very useful chemical whose use in agriculture is under serious threat.

Like most chemicals in industrial agriculture, there is a large potential for saferand more efficient use, but that could hit sales, so such guidelines, while to everyone else's benefit, might not be on the labels.

It would be a huge pity if continued traces of glyphosate contamination in food and water led to the demise of no till agriculture which is essential for more sustainable food production and to which glyphosate is an essential tool in temperate climates, until an alternative is found.

(No I'm not anti vaccine and yes I read labels, follow them but also try and understand what they mean and apply the precautionary principle when considering usage)

Enough digression, back to silage.

No he is not. We at the point of losing MCPA which is another very useful herbicide. We have already lost CCMP which was a great spray as well. Hi-load Micram another spray for docks and weeds is for cereals or amenity grass land now. Grazon 90 is knapsack now technically

Of course all were being used according to the label

It seems your reading and comprehension skills are on par with your writing, which is worrying when it comes to said labels.

Silage is lifted now and looks like there is rain in the forecast for next Saturday would people normally go with the fertiliser next thurs or Friday before the rain or is it better to wait for the field to go green first. Won't be getting slurry.

Id be thinking let the ground soften first.

But I know nothing.

The very same boat myself, had planned to knock 35ac tomorrow, hard to know what to do now. That rain appeared out of no where in the forecasts

would you wait until it greens up ? I was just thinking with the rain forecast just incase we end up back in a drought the week after

I panicked and cut the first chunk today. Being tedded out as I type. Rake up around 11 tomorrow and get it baled. It's giving rain on all models for me from lunchtime tomorrow.

Same but it looks like lot of Cork will have intense thunder rain. Grass will be everywhere in a week. Looks like it will pass quickly

job done here today. Mowed yesterday morning/ early afternoon and raked in late yesterday afternoon. Serious quality and really sticky in the pit. Slurry now for the week and hopefully get s good 2nd cut