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Silage thread

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  • #122
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    eddiej wrote: »
    2kg of clover per acre re benefits all I can say is we are getting approx 3 tonnes per acre more with same N and protein in silage has gone up by about 3% points maybe we are doing things wrong but at the moment is going ok sure we could prob improve but not too sure that the N is too high for this crop given that it will take up to 125 units given its growth Have not got mix to hand but is not a single variety mix

    alright, as im going with much higher red clover 3kgs - 4kgs per acre. if you only have 2kgs RC you will need the N


  • #123
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    delaval wrote: »
    Precision chop LxWxH/45
    Do you know calc for well chopped wagon could I use the same?

    Why do you divide by 45?


  • #124
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Why do you divide by 45?
    He is measuring in feet, 45 cubic ft = 1 tonne of precision chop silage.


  • #125
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    He is measuring in feet, 45 cubic ft = 1 tonne of precision chop silage.

    Oh, ok. Didnt even consuder feet. Was trained in on meters and kg. (Still causes odd arguments with my dad)


  • #126
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Covered


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  • #127
    Patricia Angus
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    Hope to cut end of June/early July. A month later than usual. Promised good weather around this time(I hope!!).


  • #128
    quadboy
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    delaval wrote: »
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    Holy mother, how many acres are in that


  • #129
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    quadboy wrote: »
    Holy mother, how many acres are in that


    Where is it , new zealand !


  • #130
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    dharn wrote: »
    Where is it , new zealand !

    I was goin to say it doesnt look like ireland


  • #131
    Cavanjack
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    dharn wrote: »
    Where is it , new zealand !

    Looks like Cavan to me!


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  • #132
    case885
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    delaval wrote: »
    Covered

    It seems very loosely tired any trouble with crows? Big pit btw


  • #133
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Cavanjack wrote: »
    Looks like Cavan to me!

    It's a maize pit on a f beef feedlot in Idaho that I visited a few years ago. 175,000 cattle all outdoors on clay corrals. 35 miles of feed passages. I have more pics will post on Livestock photo thread. Going for a pint now!!!


  • #134
    Farmer Pudsey
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    delaval wrote: »
    It's a maize pit on a f beef feedlot in Idaho that I visited a few years ago. 175,000 cattle all outdoors on clay corrals. 35 miles of feed passages. I have more pics will post on Livestock photo thread. Going for a pint now!!!

    For a second I taught that was Benbulbin up in the right hand corner


  • #135
    bob charles
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    delaval wrote: »
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    the scary thing about that pit is its probably a crimped maize pit. Check out you tube for some massive pits of crimp maize and about a dozen rollers rolling grain full belt


  • #136
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    For a second I taught that was Benbulbin up in the right hand corner

    Yea me too, :D


  • #137
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    the scary thing about that pit is its probably a crimped maize pit. Check out you tube for some massive pits of crimp maize and about a dozen rollers rolling grain full belt

    This was maize silage you can see the Heston bales of alfalfa on right.


  • #138
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭dar31


    mowed down on sat and picked up on Sunday
    done calculations on the pit and reckon it yielded 9t/ac give or take

    pit covered and most of the slurry out, just eating the dinner and watching contractor through the window another 2 hrs should finish it.
    bulk fert ordered for wen, think ill plan a cup of coffee to sit down and watch it being spread:D



    255711.jpg


  • #139
    maxxuumman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭maxxuumman


    Lads, what kind of yields are ye estimating that ye got.
    I walked the silage ground today and am estimating it at about 8 ton. Way under what i need, but I booked the contractor to come on next Tuesday, hopefully the second cut will do better


  • #140
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    maxxuumman wrote: »
    Lads, what kind of yields are ye estimating that ye got.
    I walked the silage ground today and am estimating it at about 8 ton. Way under what i need, but I booked the contractor to come on next Tuesday, hopefully the second cut will do better

    Measuring the pit I reckon8-9 tonne


  • #141
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Is end of july too late to close for second cut or will it be weather dependant


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  • #142
    Injuryprone
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    delaval wrote: »
    Measuring the pit I reckon8-9 tonne

    Do you not have to wait for the pit to settle before you get out the measuring tape or how does that work?


  • #143
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,901 ✭✭✭mf240


    quadboy wrote: »
    Is end of july too late to close for second cut or will it be weather dependant

    I cut silage in november one year. They ate it too.


  • #144
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    mf240 wrote: »
    I cut silage in november one year. They ate it too.

    Grand job, we wont even need the second cut cos were really lightly stocked so might as well might sell it straight away too cos we wouldnt have room for it


  • #145
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    quadboy wrote: »
    Is end of july too late to close for second cut or will it be weather dependant


    i cut stuff on 11 september last year and it was the best of the lot i made, go for it i say, might be doing some in september again myself yet, first bit to be done sometime around 10 june, the rest will be july, there will be some in august or september, weather dependent along with any string paddocks baled up in between hopefully


  • #146
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Injuryprone wrote: »
    Do you not have to wait for the pit to settle before you get out the measuring tape or how does that work?

    I made an allowance for that.


  • #147
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    delaval wrote: »
    I made an allowance for that.

    On related note question... how long do lads wait to tighten down covers?


  • #148
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Muckit wrote: »
    On related note question... how long do lads wait to tighten down covers?

    Had a look this am very stable and no run off. We just add tyres as we see slack. After a few weeks do no more as it now is silage


  • #149
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    delaval wrote: »
    Had a look this am very stable and no run off. We just add tyres as we see slack. After a few weeks do no more as it now is silage

    Have you walls delaval? I'm just wondering if you don't, do you just seal with bags around the edge and then put tyres on side as it sags?

    I put on bags and tyres on sides at the start and then take the whole lot off (a part from the top), pull down covers and then rebag and tyre sides. A lot of work ...... is it necessary?? Now I have only a fart of a pit


  • #150
    bob charles
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    delaval wrote: »
    Measuring the pit I reckon8-9 tonne

    on more than one occasion I have gotten tons figure from measuring how much was in a pit and they have being miles out when it went over a weighbridge so I would err seriously on the side of caution and experience tells me maybe only 75% maybe in the pit


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  • #151
    bob charles
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    mf240 wrote: »
    I cut silage in november one year. They ate it too.

    I made silage on the 20th of October last year and again on the 16th of March this year and it was devoured


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