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Grazing 2021

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    #302
    Base price
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Was outside there now. It's very cold. Fire lit in mid May. Madness
    We've had a few heavy downpours from 3ish, it got chilly and I lit the fire at 5.


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    #303
    Hershall
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭Hershall


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    Growth is absolutely brutal. There is a few silage fields closed since start of april and they are only at a strong grazing height. You would be hoping growth would take off any week but its not happening

    Same here growth is brutal. Spread fertiliser again over the grazing ground this week never had to do that before in May and I have less cattle due to beam and price of stores only for that Id have some back in


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    #304
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Pissing rain here all evening. Growth of 65 in the last 6 days, it's improving alright but wet weather and lower DM of grass has stock unsettled, will have paddockor two to take out when weather clears to keep covers right, won't be able to wait for them to go in with first cut. Have been following cows with 20 units N, 2k gallons parlour washings/ watery slurry on some paddocks instead. Walk the farm every week, or few days, you'll be surprised how things will change


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    #305
    green daries
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    Mooooo wrote: »
    Pissing rain here all evening. Growth of 65 in the last 6 days, it's improving alright but wet weather and lower DM of grass has stock unsettled, will have paddockor two to take out when weather clears to keep covers right, won't be able to wait for them to go in with first cut. Have been following cows with 20 units N, 2k gallons parlour washings/ watery slurry on some paddocks instead. Walk the farm every week, or few days, you'll be surprised how things will change

    Are you still buffering and what with if you are just out of curiosity still buffering here straw and silage


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    #306
    Bass Reeves
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    green daries wrote: »
    Are you still buffering and what with if you are just out of curiosity still buffering here straw and silage

    I be surprised if any dairy farmers is not buffering. Had half my stick back inside for a week. Have started feeding ration to a finishing bunch and have left the one inside out to clean paddocks after them. Have eaten part of one sage paddock will have to use half another one as well

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #307
    Alibaba
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    Will have to put in some of my stock tomorrow for probably at least a week to give the grass a chance to build up.
    Some of the heavy ground getting cut up and whatever bit of grass being trampled.


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    #308
    Mooooo
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    green daries wrote: »
    Are you still buffering and what with if you are just out of curiosity still buffering here straw and silage

    Not buffering, getting 5kgs 14% in parlour, haven't gone in with silage since they went out fulltime once they could stay out weather wise.


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    #309
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    The ice cold rain in May is a killer


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    #310
    Good loser
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    Put in 21 stores on Sunday and grazed 1 acre silage ground so far - with 14 large stock.


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    #311
    Alibaba
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    Good loser wrote: »
    Put in 21 stores on Sunday and grazed 1 acre silage ground so far - with 14 large stock.
    I'll be doing the same today. Putting in around 20 stores.
    Even though there's a slight improvement this week in growth its still only March weather !


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    #312
    CloughCasey1
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    It's getting a bit hairy here. I've started the third graze on some paddocks this week. I haven't been forced into ground closed for hay or silage. Just about staying ahead of them with grass. 50 x 15 to 26mt olds out on 30 acres. I wont house. Ground like concrete here so will stick in a ring feeder and feed with grass to slow down if needed. Upping meal for the heaviest 20 to get them ready for slaughter thwt bit sooner to slow those on grass. Grass is very dry here almost crisp. They seem to be thriving away on it and cleaning out paddocks very well. I took a chance on sibclair magill grass seed while reseeding over the last few years that performs well in colder conditions into the spring/autumn. Better be lucky than good some times.


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    #313
    bogman_bass
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    Cordless grass trimmer in Aldi tomorrow week if anybody wants to do cut and weight


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    #314
    Timmaay
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    13mm today, heat, and loads of sunshine. Rocketfuel for grass, woohoo.


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    #315
    green daries
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Cordless grass trimmer in Aldi tomorrow week if anybody wants to do cut and weight

    We would need a hoover around these parts to collect the grass lol


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    #316
    Dunedin
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    Timmaay wrote: »
    13mm today, heat, and loads of sunshine. Rocketfuel for grass, woohoo.

    We had great growing humid day here in the midlands but heavy rain last night and very heavy showers again today so ground getting soft especially the re-seeds.


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    #317
    StevenToast
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    Im glad of the few spare bales of silage....ill never look to sell old silage again...priceless!

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #318
    Robson99
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    Going to put in 20 stores. Ground absolutely saturated here after today's rain. They are only walking grass into the ground and bogging the place. Better off in for a few days


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    #319
    Good loser
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    Timmaay wrote: »
    13mm today, heat, and loads of sunshine. Rocketfuel for grass, woohoo.

    Very significant growth today.


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    #320
    lab man
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    StevenToast wrote: »
    Im glad of the few spare bales of silage....ill never look to sell old silage again...priceless!

    Old hay old gold


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    #321
    Hershall
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭Hershall


    Going to put in some tomorrow for a week or 10 days hopefully the place will dry out and grass will grow!!!!


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    #322
    StevenToast
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    Is there ne'ery abit of growth at all?!!

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #323
    Danzy
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    StevenToast wrote: »
    Is there ne'ery abit of growth at all?!!

    Enough to make a field look better but that's about it.

    Possible it is speeding up these days. Hope so.


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    #324
    Base price
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    I walked fields on Thursday that got slurry 3 weeks ago and you could still see it in places but it's a different picture this morning. The grass is jumping out of the ground.


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    #325
    minerleague
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    surprised how sticky the top surface got ( joys of farming in heavy yellow clay i suppose) considering how dry ground had been. Plenty silage bales left over so low growth suited me this year


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    #326
    Good loser
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    Hershall wrote: »
    Going to put in some tomorrow for a week or 10 days hopefully the place will dry out and grass will grow!!!!

    Ground is drying out quickly. And really fast growth. Don't feed too many bales.


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    #327
    Dunedin
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    Hershall wrote: »
    Going to put in some tomorrow for a week or 10 days hopefully the place will dry out and grass will grow!!!!

    I let 16 back into the bird cover again with a round bale. There’s a pick grass init too . Normally have it sown by now so glad I haven’t. Got a ton of sulpa can to shake on 16 acres of reseeded paddocks so a week in bird cover will give that a chance


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    #328
    MfMan
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    Robson99 wrote: »
    Going to put in 20 stores. Ground absolutely saturated here after today's rain. They are only walking grass into the ground and bogging the place. Better off in for a few days

    Where is that? Conditions where I am in N Galway not so bad, not too much rain, but no growth due to lack of heat.


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    #329
    Mooooo
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    Growth is taking off here, dry breaks in weather to manage the grass will be the issue now


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    #330
    Dozer1
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    great growth here last 2 days in Limerick lovely soft rain and temp well up, place is greening up nicely


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    #331
    mayota
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    Put them in this evening. Grass very tight.


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