Grass growth

[beardface]

Anyone else getting a bit concerned about lack of grass growth?

 

[Fendt65]

OH YES

 

[harperfarmer]

Anyone else getting a bit concerned about lack of grass growth?

It can hardly be expected to grow when we're getting frosts at night and still perishing in the day. Meant to warm up next week and I expect things will explode.

 

[beardface]

It can hardly be expected to grow when we're getting frosts at night and still perishing in the day. Meant to warm up next week and I expect things will explode.

Definitely has th capacity to make up ground. Trouble is of ot starts growing at a silly speed it might be lacking a bit of nutrition, particularly trave elements. Funny time that's for certain.

 

[bobk]

It's growing everywhere that doesn't matter

 

[yellowbelly]

It's growing everywhere that doesn't matter

....yeah, like bits round the sheds that need strimming and the feckin lawn

 

[sticky]

It better hurry up or I will be in the sh1t. I’ve got 156 ewe lambs in a shed, coming up to a month, because the ewes and lambs have taken priority and I can’t push them together yet.
I ordered some 20/10/10 last week to put on grazing ground, I’ve never done that before.

 

[choochter]

I put some on a week ago, dont see any difference yet

 

[bobk]

Grass don't grow in mud .

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Just far too cold for growing grass….its absolute starvation

 

[Estate fencing.]

Late teens next week. Might stop picking ewes up with mastitis and start picking them up with mag again, nice to have variety of death.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Anyone else getting a bit concerned about lack of grass growth?

Glad I’m not the only one!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

checking agrinet, seems pretty much bang on trend here, last year there was a dip in the spring because of the lack of rain, hopefully we won't get that again this year (I think it caused 0.5 ton dry matter a Ha drop in the years output).

 

[NorthumbrianFarmer]

Got Italian rye grass seeds that had fert 4 weeks ago that haven’t grown at all and now the tips are bronzed. Feeding all the cattle silage outside too

 

[TelesnaAg]

Do you guys use jib acid in uk?

Ant

 

[teslacoils]

My lawn needs cutting again.
However areas of permenant pasture that had a late cut of hay in that bit of 2023 that didnt rain simply havent recovered and are brown over. Been too wet to get any slurry on but got some bagged on the grass ley. The section thats in its third and final year looks absolute crap compared to the second year portion. Its all going into wheat, so will get at most two cuts.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Plate metering weekly at the moment.

Herbal leys are coming on well. Deferred grazing permanent pasture used for cow turn out has recovered sufficiently for lambing ewes.

Higher permanent pasture is less growthy. But it will get there soon enough.

Putting cows into covers of 33-3500. Leaving a 1500 residual. Have another week of this then into the permanent pasture that's at higher altitude, but lower covers. Mostly 25-2800.

 

[jondear]

6°c yesterday and today no sun !No surprise it's not growing

 

[muleman]

Havnt got a lot of grass here in Cumbria and it isn't growing much but I've definitely had a lot less grass at lambing time some years than this

 

[pgk]

It better hurry up or I will be in the sh1t. I’ve got 156 ewe lambs in a shed, coming up to a month, because the ewes and lambs have taken priority and I can’t push them together yet.
I ordered some 20/10/10 last week to put on grazing ground, I’ve never done that before.

Saw you out spreading thought you must be up for making a few idiot bricks this year