Suckler cow fertiliser use

[Wjb7030]

How much fertiliser do people use for keeping suckler cow herds for grazing/ silage, youngstock etc basically the whole enterprise????

 

[Werzle]

60-70kgs / acre usually on grazing ground and silage ground gets 200kgs split 50/50 before and after cutting. Cut it by half this year.

 

[sodbuster]

500 suckler coos
500 ewes
230 acre barley
This year 70 tons of N and 58 tons of fibro phos. Only spread about 120 acres of grazing with 50kgs/acre. The rest was for silage , barley and fodder crops

 

[bobk]

How much fertiliser do people use for keeping suckler cow herds for grazing/ silage, youngstock etc basically the whole enterprise????

None , stick them on some reeds ,

 

[Kiwi Pete]

None, IMO the cow job is enough of a gamble without increasing risk

 

[C.J]

Averaged about 90 units/acre last year .

Total so far this year 0

Haven't weighed any cattle lately , but I expect low N = low protein = low LWG

We seem to have more clover , and slowly grown grass should be better in vits/mins.

 

[Werzle]

Averaged about 90 units/acre last year .

Total so far this year 0

Haven't weighed any cattle lately , but I expect low N = low protein = low LWG

We seem to have more clover , and slowly grown grass may be better in vits/mins.

Clover here is doing better too, be f##k all here without it. Interesting to see in the farming press that grass growth is back everywhere. Only people with grass seem to be the understocked.

 

[livestock 1]

Tried to reckon this up and I think maybe 15k ish
It’s muddled with the sheep enterprise

 

[Hilly]

none !! Ye ha

 

[livestock 1]

none !! Ye ha

Is that the sewage stuff

 

[Hilly]

Is that the sewage stuff

I put some hen sh!t on but no man made sh!t .

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Clover here is doing better too, be f##k all here without it. Interesting to see in the farming press that grass growth is back everywhere. Only people with grass seem to be the understocked.

Don’t know how but we’ve got grass and definitely not understocked. But we seem to have had rain this last fortnight when folk 3/4 miles away are dry as a bone. lot of silage aftermaths looking a bad colour after 2nd cut

 

[Chae1]

400 sucklers.

550 acres grass.

Including 100 acres cut twice for silage.

5 loads fertiliser x 28t per year.

Unsustainable with current fertiliser and fat prices.

 

[Jonp]

None. Only a small 100 acre pp farm. 8 cows with calves, 125 ewes with lambs. Have plenty of grass but fields covered in dung as it's been so dry here since last year.
Every year get more clover, BF trefoil and flowers everywhere.
Seems to be improving every year but need more rain.

 

[Hilly]

400 sucklers.

550 acres grass.

Including 100 acres cut twice for silage.

5 loads fertiliser x 28t per year.

Unsustainable with current fertiliser and fat prices.

They are unsustainable with no fert so wouldn’t worry

 

[jamesy]

Averaging 35kg of 25:5:5 per cow for grazing ground this year. There won’t be anymore going on. Silage averages out at 117kg per cow but that will be fed to young stock & sheep too.

 

[livestock 1]

Most of mine probably 75% has gone on silage ground

 

[Hilly]

I never spread fert on grazing , my grazing is underivable on .

 

[Werzle]

Don’t know how but we’ve got grass and definitely not understocked. But we seem to have had rain this last fortnight when folk 3/4 miles away are dry as a bone. lot of silage aftermaths looking a bad colour after 2nd cut

We have caught the storms too but it hasnt done much good, alot of locals saying the grass has gone a month early this year. Aftermaths very slow to recover, they reckon we are due extreme heat again mid july which isnt helpful. Sheep keep seems to stay greener than cattle fields .

 

[YELROM]

400 sucklers.

550 acres grass.

Including 100 acres cut twice for silage.

5 loads fertiliser x 28t per year.

Unsustainable with current fertiliser and fat prices.

Will that be about 100k in Fert at current prices