Silage thread

Greengrass1 wrote: »

I think I'll poisen myself if I get in a tractor now. The smell coming outa me is not natural :eek:

Drink?

bogman_bass wrote: »

Thanks reggae. I feel sooooo much better now!

Hey I'm all about the morale of the troops

frazzledhome wrote: »

Not sure wheather to laugh or cry. Guy following Tedder just walked across the fields to me in a panic that a clock had gone high in tractor. He was telling me it was temp, I went to check it was the diesel gauge :):(:(

Only for H&S I'd send for my 10 yo to do the job

I'm still laughing as he's an absolute cow man hating every minute of tractor work but in fairness he volunteered to get the job done

Should have gave me a call. At home cutting the lawn and sitting down now for Sunday roast.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Mowed this stuff last night. Looks great quality. More 18 6 12 and cut in 6 wks

Now gg, there's no place for silage porn like that on this thread

dzer2 wrote: »

Should have gave me a call. At home cutting the lawn and sitting down now for Sunday roast.

Don't bother dzer. I offered myself aswell but looks like he rather get uninterested men so that he can complain about them :P

GG, how many bags of 18-6-12 will you put out for next cut in 6 wks?

Cow Porter wrote: »

picking up later today, not great drying yesterday but escaped any rain last night thank god.

this is our first year in a while getting all ground grazed in spring and cutting before bank holiday weekend. hopefully will test out good. one field was starting to head out but the rest looked good. fellas need to be making at least some best quality forage not just for winter milkers but to milk cows to 305 days, cant see why you'd dry off an april calver in december unless youll only be milking a small number.

frazz, mahoney and stan can ye post up what yer silage ground plans would be from early in the year, ie graze first? closing date, units of n, latest slurry application, sulphur??? ground here got 70 units in early april

As follows
2/2500 gallons tower slurry soon as possible after slurry window opens,I bag urea early feb graze mid February and further 2500 gallons ,after that I leave myself the option of grazing again.3 bags of 18 6 12 with 5% sulphur out before paddys day .then either graze again or top up with 0.75 bag of urea and close .target cutting either for pit or bales from 15 May to 25 May.2500 to 3k gallons tower slurry then with trailing shoe and 2 bags 18 6 12 as last split of fertiliser in late August no second cut just stay pulling out bales through summer.all silage ground gets 2 tonne ground lime every 3 years .95% of whole farm reseeded in last 6 years and think that by keeping ph and indexes correct I should get 7/10 years out of them

Miname wrote: »

Booking with your man can be hit and miss. Is he under pressure

Not massive pressure, get the speak in quick if your interested though, early week getting full I'd say

wonder is there many lads still using grouper. old contractor just used to fire the rows on top of each other. he had no rake and was abit of a bully.