Yes - our highest point on the farm is 24m above sea level
2019 Silage Season
- Thread starter Bald Rick
- Start date
Yes - our highest point on the farm is 24m above sea level
- Location
- Northern Ireland
And the lowest?
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
50ft difference across the whole farm? You get more than that in most fields around here! (Devon)
One started and that was that !Huge acres of grass knocked down from North Devon all the way to Truro today. Have I missed something?
Round here your neighbour decides when you cut silage
I’ve really stuffed things up by housing cows 365,my neighbours don’t know when to turn out.
Strugle to find the 3rd leaf on most of our silage ground. Be 10 days before its fully emerged with us. Last week of april looks like it might be favourable.
ollie989898
Member
Short of grub!!
Yeah I always plan last days April beginning of may. We are fairly wet here. What is grass quality like at mo? Surely dry matters are down?
So cutting now so they can keep feeding? But in ten day grass could double if weather right.
Only imagine sugars to be a little low too.
Devon James
Member
- Location
- Devon
We are picking up tomorrow at Woodbury
ollie989898
Member
I cant explain it either other than people must be short of grub, they wil take what they have now hoping for another bite at the cherry, or they believe it will pish down for all of May, or another total drought, or both.
Some contractors in Wilts have apparently made silage in every month of 2019 so far!
The whole job is nuts.
Are you doing all your first cut? Is this earlier than normal for you?
ollie989898
Member
I cant see this is going to be grade A silage by any means. Its had no sun really and temperatures vary from about 4 degrees of not frost to around 14 in the early afternoon. It will be low dry matter unless you manage to catch the weather nice. Be a tad damp in places as well I think.
Mouser
Member
- Location
- near Belfast
Why is everyone so obsessed with dates? Just go by weather and crop here, looks like being a bit earlier this year as early spring and less lambs over winter. First cut sometime during May is about the only rule.
The only dates to go off are when you spread fert,if I had the grass and no fert on it I’d be cutting “ make hay while the sun shines”