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Silage thread

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  • #542
    Viewtodiefor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Viewtodiefor


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Bale that field and wilt it well.

    Hate bales


  • #543
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Viewtodiefor wrote: »
    Hate bales

    Needs must. You'll hopefully only get married once and you don't need that headache the week of the nuptials.


  • #544
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Beaten to it on the bale and wilt advice. You could look into using a preservative. What date is your N used up?


  • #545
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    just do it wrote: »
    Yeah I can't see it being a problem this time of year especially. I took my first cut 3 days early as the weather was due to break.

    Exactly. Waiting for everything to be perfect, in our climate, will inevitably mean, a flood of rain, will come to spoil the party, just when you think you have all the other variables perfect.
    Cutting in sunshine, and getting 24 hours of good weather in the row, will balance out a lot of the other variables which might not be 100% to your liking. Things like nitrogen level or crop density.


  • #546
    jp6470
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭jp6470


    Would well sprayed grass be harder to mow? Also knowing him to much fertilizer.
    Nightmare the day,trying to cut for neighbour. Or is it me new side mounted mower.?


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  • #547
    Good loser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,283 ✭✭✭Good loser


    Heard a guy say during the week that in good growth conditions, as last week, the crop would take up 3 units per day.


  • #548
    Western Pomise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Western Pomise


    Silage ready.....weather looks like it will settle from Thurs on....crop not overly heavy but quality very good.


  • #549
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Boys at silage in the morning


  • #550
    Bleating Lamb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,945 ✭✭✭Bleating Lamb


    delaval wrote: »
    Boys at silage in the morning

    Serious plant there .......ya would want dry ground to keep it up:)


  • #551
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    delaval wrote: »
    Boys at silage in the morning

    I see you are rearing them to like silage bales aswell:confused:. FFS buy them a chopper and put silage where it should be, in a pit, and at the correct chop length:)


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  • #552
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    I see you are rearing them to like silage bales aswell:confused:. FFS buy them a chopper and put silage where it should be, in a pit, and at the correct chop length:)

    Choppers busy, have to do a few paddocks for a dairy farmer, pain on the whole!!!


  • #553
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    delaval wrote: »
    Choppers busy, have to do a few paddocks for a dairy farmer, pain on the whole!!!

    make sure they get paid going out the gate. They wont last in business fannying around doing paddocks at a couple of bales per ac:D


  • #554
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    gona go at it nxt week if the weather stays dry, its grand when its done


  • #555
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    delaval wrote: »
    Boys at silage in the morning

    Aaaah jasus would you not get em proper gear!


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHFa9HMwCt8


  • #556
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Aaaah jasus would you not get em proper gear!


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHFa9HMwCt8

    Dairy farmers, not too fond of grease gun!!


  • #557
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    How long are lads leaving their second cut before cutting?


  • #558
    TEAT SQUEEZER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 516 ✭✭✭TEAT SQUEEZER


    Muckit wrote: »
    How long are lads leaving their second cut before cutting?
    cut 1st cut 25.5 so end of this month will see it done i hope,..... a bit of moisture defecit showing so would love a good dash in next few dys


  • #559
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Muckit wrote: »
    How long are lads leaving their second cut before cutting?

    34 days pit covered Fert out and just about to spread slurry


  • #560
    TEAT SQUEEZER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 516 ✭✭✭TEAT SQUEEZER


    stanflt wrote: »
    34 days pit covered Fert out and just about to spread slurry

    what kind of tonnage on that stan?


  • #561
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭stanflt


    TEAT SQUEEZER wrote: »
    what kind of tonnage on that stan?

    Around 6 per acre


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  • #562
    TEAT SQUEEZER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 516 ✭✭✭TEAT SQUEEZER


    stanflt wrote: »
    Around 6 per acre
    have 1st cut done same time as you ..2nd in no way ready .. water shortage .......i wont mind leaving it if it will bulk up cos i need to fill pits..last chance saloon the 2nd cut for me .. will u go again on that ground cut today?


  • #563
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭stanflt


    TEAT SQUEEZER wrote: »
    have 1st cut done same time as you ..2nd in no way ready .. water shortage .......i wont mind leaving it if it will bulk up cos i need to fill pits..last chance saloon the 2nd cut for me .. will u go again on that ground cut today?

    Cut Friday will cut again first week August


  • #564
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭red bull


    stanflt wrote: »
    Cut Friday will cut again first week August

    Is it Italian ?


  • #565
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭stanflt


    red bull wrote: »
    Is it Italian ?


    no just soil fertility


  • #566
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    bob charles wrote: »
    I see you are rearing them to like silage bales aswell:confused:. FFS buy them a chopper and put silage where it should be, in a pit, and at the correct chop length:)

    Noooo buy them a wagon its the way forward.


  • #567
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,809 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Muckit wrote: »
    How long are lads leaving their second cut before cutting?
    Ist cut in pit 02 june second cut hoping out of the ground .Will get beteween 6 to 7 weeks and then cut again so will cut again anytime after 14/07 weather dependent of course.28 acres closed and all reseeded in last 3 years so its flying,Reckon it will be heavier than first cut.


  • #568
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »
    How long are lads leaving their second cut before cutting?
    Good question Muckit, what are you thinking yourself? Have 80units of N out 25 days now but can't see it having enough bulk at 40 days.


  • #569
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    stanflt wrote: »
    no just soil fertility
    Is all your ground index 4 with a ph of 6.5?
    How often do you soil sample


  • #570
    Bleating Lamb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,945 ✭✭✭Bleating Lamb


    Absolutely bucketed down rain all day today,settled now,lookin at forecast was planning to cut fri and bale Sat but land may need an extra day or two to soak out after that rain:(


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  • #571
    f140
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 875 ✭✭✭f140


    Bleating Lamb wrote: »
    Absolutely bucketed down rain all day today,settled now,lookin at forecast was planning to cut fri and bale Sat but land may need an extra day or two to soak out after that rain:(

    I could have done with that down here in cork. all we had was a bit of drizzle and the ground is as dry now again after the wind as it ever was.


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