- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I have no idea how it gets in the dung, maybe it is absorbed into the lambs skin?Is the normal click ok? I used click extra this year, I dint think of as a wormer, my fault.
I have no idea how it gets in the dung, maybe it is absorbed into the lambs skin?Is the normal click ok? I used click extra this year, I dint think of as a wormer, my fault.
I have no idea how it gets in the dung, maybe it is absorbed into the lambs skin?
sh!t yes, they have so much information and so many resources . Yet "they never do anything for us".... yet, they have the answers to half the questions people ask their competitors TFFBeest hope some of the worthies on here don't get their way and abolish ahdb.
Haveing gone organic and changed the farm from being nitrogen dependant Pp to clover based three year rotation including a fourth year with a cereal break crop I can honestly say we have never grown so much fodder. I would look carefully at what wormers you use on stock as they carry through the dung/slurry and have big impact on soil health.
You can grow massive volumes of grub if FYM is applied at the right time and weather is on your side. And if the weather isn't just remember the grass dosnt grow any faster with a pile of N behind it in a draught or if it's freezing anyway, and you will forget about the fearful prices being said on here
We've done various farmer trials with foliar urea and foliar k.Foliar feeding now a credible option. The farm is part of a Farming Connect trial with 3 others, results are about to be published, suffice to say a huge saving in fert is possible.
How did you cope with flysspread last bagged fert in 2016 and think dropping wormers and fly treatments and growing 1-2kg of clover in new leys has helped us grow more grass than we did using 30t of AN on 240acres every year.
We've done various farmer trials with foliar urea and foliar k.
Very interesting results, not just yield reactions but quality (protein and me) uplifts with foliar.
Have grown 8 ton spring barley crop using 58kg N/ha but 2 foliar passes included in that.
Looking forward to the Welsh trial results being published
Depends on the crop but between 4 and 10kgHow much n did you put on in each folier pass .
Depends on the crop but between 4 and 10kg
Yes just normal nozzles.Did you spray with conventional nozzels.
Yes just normal nozzles.
Anything to get the liquid to stay on the leaf, very simple process but pretty mind blowing when it works.
How did you cope with flys
I first learned about it at a Joel Williams meeting, he reckoned on efficiency being between 3 and 4x better with foliar. What we've done here agrees with that.I have read it is 5 to 7 percent more efficient than spreading, what would you think the efficiency of this is in your view?
If my sums are correct that would equate to around 105kg N per Ha, so no disrespect, but a good clover sward should provide more N than that amount of AN.spread last bagged fert in 2016 and think dropping wormers and fly treatments and growing 1-2kg of clover in new leys has helped us grow more grass than we did using 30t of AN on 240acres every year.
If my sums are correct that would equate to around 105kg N per Ha, so no disrespect, but a good clover sward should provide more N than that amount of AN.
I do believe we will all be encouraged (forced) down this route in the future so the more knowledge/experience gained the better.
He’s been to Kenya several times and we’ve been really impressed with his philosophy. We are all arable (Veg) but have taken on board a lot of what he says. Last year we grew 4000 acres of Veg and used an average of 33 kgs per acre of bought in fertilizer we use some muck but mainly we are cycling the nutrients. It’s all in the ground you’ve just got to get the roots to grab it.I first learned about it at a Joel Williams meeting, he reckoned on efficiency being between 3 and 4x better with foliar. What we've done here agrees with that.
We used foliar N on a dairy combined with a Donaghy's product called 'LessN' (dicyandiamide) and it was even more responsive to that mix.I first learned about it at a Joel Williams meeting, he reckoned on efficiency being between 3 and 4x better with foliar. What we've done here agrees with that.
I could well believe it, some proper research into the quality improvements are required also that's the most exciting but for me. We've seen a 13% increase in grass ME yield with foliar k (sandy soil so no soil k) and 32% protein yield increase with foliar N and K.We used foliar N on a dairy combined with a Donaghy's product called 'LessN' (dicyandiamide) and it was even more responsive to that mix.
Just a simple urea/MgSO4 mix but by gaw did it grow some grass in a hurry