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Fertilizer and slurry. Which one first?

  • 08-04-2012 04:51PM
    #1
    BeeDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭


    Silage ground grazed, and available for slurry and fertilizer.
    Want to spread slurry, and 2.5 bags of cut sward to the acre.
    Does it matter which one goes on first? If I spread the fertilizer first, and slurry on top, would some of the fertilizer get wasted?


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  • #2
    JOAT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭JOAT


    BeeDI wrote: »
    Silage ground grazed, and available for slurry and fertilizer.
    Want to spread slurry, and 2.5 bags of cut sward to the acre.
    Does it matter which one goes on first? If I spread the fertilizer first, and slurry on top, would some of the fertilizer get wasted?

    Wouldn't say it would make much of a difference. Why do you ask 'would some of it get wasted'? If anything if you put out the slurry after the fertiliser it would help to dissolve it and help to ground to absorb it quicker


  • #3
    Grecco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Grecco


    BeeDI wrote: »
    2.5 bags of cut sward to the acre.

    At that level I dont think it would make any difference,
    do you not thing 2.5 bags to the acre is excessive and a waste of money?


  • #4
    BeeDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭BeeDI


    Grecco wrote: »
    At that level I dont think it would make any difference,
    do you not thing 2.5 bags to the acre is excessive and a waste of money?
    That's 67 units nitrogen, plus slurry. Didn't think it excessive, but maybe it is???

    Place has been grazed bare at this point.
    I will be leaving it 8 weeks before cutting. Going for one big cut!!


  • #5
    GERMAN ROCKS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭GERMAN ROCKS


    BeeDI wrote: »
    That's 67 units nitrogen, plus slurry. Didn't think it excessive, but maybe it is???

    Place has been grazed bare at this point.
    I will be leaving it 8 weeks before cutting. Going for one big cut!!

    you would want that much at least for pit silage. no point paying 100+ an acre and not having a decent cut just to spare a few bob on the fertwe put a bag and a half too two bags of urea for first cut plus slurry


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