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best time to spread slurry

  • 25-02-2016 07:04PM
    #1
    viztopia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 770 ✭✭✭


    As the title says when is the best time in the spring to spread slurry? If it was spread this week is there a chance that it would be a waste of time because of frost or rain washing it all away?


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  • #2
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,657 ✭✭✭tanko


    viztopia wrote: »
    As the title says when is the best time in the spring to spread slurry? If it was spread this week is there a chance that it would be a waste of time because of frost or rain washing it all away?

    If you are lucky enough to be able to get slurry out this week I'd be lashing it out. It's an ideal time to be spreading it.


  • #3
    Miname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭Miname


    Just before it hits the top of the slats would be ideal.


  • #4
    get a room
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭get a room


    Im not a farmer so i couldent possibly advise, but around here, the farmers seem to spread it
    1. when our windows are open.
    2. when theres clothes on the line
    3. when im sitting in the garden,

    So all I can say is watch what your neighbours are doing. If they are enjoying their garden thats the time to spread.


  • #5
    djmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭djmc


    Can't beat living in the countryside
    Wake early in the morning with the birds singing the sun shining and the sweet smell of pigs ****e in the air.


  • #6
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    get a room wrote: »
    Im not a farmer so i couldent possibly advise, but around here, the farmers seem to spread it
    1. when our windows are open.
    2. when theres clothes on the line
    3. when im sitting in the garden,

    So all I can say is watch what your neighbours are doing. If they are enjoying their garden thats the time to spread.

    Lol


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  • #7
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Tanking slurry today. 2500 gals per acre
    This and autumn is the time to get best bang for your buck


  • #8
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,800 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    get a room wrote: »
    Im not a farmer so i couldent possibly advise, but around here, the farmers seem to spread it
    1. when our windows are open.
    2. when theres clothes on the line
    3. when im sitting in the garden,

    So all I can say is watch what your neighbours are doing. If they are enjoying their garden thats the time to spread.
    It's a bit of a coincidence you wouldn't be doing any of those 3 things if it was lashing rain maybe?


  • #9
    get a room
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭get a room


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    It's a bit of a coincidence you wouldn't be doing any of those 3 things if it was lashing rain maybe?

    Yes were a very healthy family


  • #10
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 13,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    viztopia wrote: »
    As the title says when is the best time in the spring to spread slurry? If it was spread this week is there a chance that it would be a waste of time because of frost or rain washing it all away?

    Yesterday:(

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #11
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,044 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    get a room wrote: »
    Im not a farmer so i couldent possibly advise, but around here, the farmers seem to spread it
    1. when our windows are open.
    2. when theres clothes on the line
    3. when im sitting in the garden,

    So all I can say is watch what your neighbours are doing. If they are enjoying their garden thats the time to spread.

    sarcasm.jpg?w=900&h=681


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  • #12
    Musthavanegg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭Musthavanegg


    Some of these boys literally don't give a shi.......My understanding of Slurry spreading is that it's normally done in fine weather by driving up and down the field with a low trajectory splash plate. Well yesterday while driving on the N24 outside Cahir this boy with his big tractor and Slurry tanker was actually driving along the main road and firing the Slurry up in the air over the ditch because the field itself was water logged and too soft to drive on with such a machine.
    Don't know if this is permitted or not but one very unhappy lady living there filmed and reported it.


  • #13
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    Musthavanegg wrote: »
    Some of these boys literally don't give a shi.......My understanding of Slurry spreading is that it's normally done in fine weather by driving up and down the field with a low trajectory splash plate. Well yesterday while driving on the N24 outside Cahir this boy with his big tractor and Slurry tanker was actually driving along the main road and firing the Slurry up in the air over the ditch because the field itself was water logged and too soft to drive on with such a machine.
    Don't know if this is permitted or not but one very unhappy lady living there filmed and reported it.

    Ah thats not fair fellas do give a **** , in fact they, d give you loads of it at the moment.


  • #14
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Musthavanegg wrote: »
    Some of these boys literally don't give a shi.......My understanding of Slurry spreading is that it's normally done in fine weather by driving up and down the field with a low trajectory splash plate. Well yesterday while driving on the N24 outside Cahir this boy with his big tractor and Slurry tanker was actually driving along the main road and firing the Slurry up in the air over the ditch because the field itself was water logged and too soft to drive on with such a machine.
    Don't know if this is permitted or not but one very unhappy lady living there filmed and reported it.

    A rain gun? Illegal?


  • #15
    jfh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭jfh


    was hoping to get slurry out in the next couple of day on a silage field that been grazed. we're promised some heavy rain the weekend, would that matter should i hold off until afterwards?


  • #16
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,105 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    The ideal time to spread slurry is in misty weather or before light rain. It really depends on how heavy the rain you get. If you get lightish rain for first hour this will wash in nitrogen. Rain will wash the N in the slurry into the ground and increase the N that you get from the slurry.

    The danger with heavy flash rain is that it will wash the N away along the surface of the ground. At present good ground will soak the slurry. I use a weather forecast that gives forecasts for ports and airports as well as city's.

    http://www.weather-forecast.com/

    It is usually fairy accurate. For my area it is Friday night when the rain is arriving. I be happy to spread slurry until Wednesday evening from the forecast, If it was not spread by then you get a more detailed forecast from looking at weather maps and if it looked like first of the rain was light I consider spreading Thursday.

    You can get serious N uptake in the spring after misty or showery weather it can hit 20 units/100 gallons I think. That is worth 10 euro I be spreading at the moment if it suited.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #17
    jfh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭jfh


    Thanks bass, thourough answer


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