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We got a good amount overnight, ground was still wet till mid afternoon so hopefully will give some relief

A new way I thought about it that i thought was interesting was how much income does the farm make after your meal bill is paid and nothing else per acre. I then started to think about what other things I could do on a small scale that might make a few acres more profitable

Yea used it all last year. Our sower is set to 18m and was getting that with CAN no bother but with the 38 and sulpher I had to knock the satalite down to 16m and even then it might not be fully reaching. Notice more fert stuck to the veins so it sounds like the guy you were talking to might be...

I bought 38 percent protected urea at 505 middle of last month,havnt priced anything since then

I have to say I do think about it a good bit and wonder should I be doing things to get ahead of it. I'm early 30s so hope I have a good few years left yet and wonder how it will be in 10 15 years. I like the idea of being able to sell direct to customer and cutting out some of the big...

Not sure what the advantages would be, think it's more common in the larger sized compressors. We had more bother with the solonoids going on the side of the feeders or cows pulling the wires out of them as we had a low ceiling

I think it is more widely used on arable but principal should be the same for grass I think

We had orby feeders in our last parlour and the came compressor for maybe 10 years and it's been another 4 years in our new one. It's pretty big though, maybe 200 or so belt driven three phase thing

Depends what liquid you use I'd looked at omex and they wanted the droplet nozels as they wanted it to bounce off the leaf and be taken into the soil. I think the foilier style is absorbed by the leaf but never really did much looking into it

Think it would depend if you put it on with the droplet nozzles or a normal sprayer head

We did second cut at the start of the month so nothing really on the silage fields yet, they have greened but no real cover of grass. Still going into covers of around 2500 and grazing to about 1700 so still getting something during the day

Yea our second cuts not really doing much at all, can't see it being a 4 week turn around this time!

We have had nothing at all, our growth on the grazing fields is down to 30kg DM per hectare it was at 110 three weeks ago when it last rained. I've cows back in at night for two weeks now, I recon if it doesn't rain this week they will have to be back in full time

We are tmr all winter and then. Fix of fully grazing and out at grass by day and in at night depending on how much grass we have. We generally scrape the feed passage clear 2 or 3 times a week and dump what we take out, generally just balled waste or bad silage. Definitely notice a drop in...

We have had it in the past and it spread like mad but the hedge came back ok the following year, seen a row of hedge about 300m covered with it along a main road not far from us yesterday so might be particularly prevelant this year