All things Dairy

[jimmer]

Forgot I had that done
More confused now

 

[sidjon]

Forgot I had that done
More confused now

That looks like ours, but our seem to be in the 4's, are you just using N or a compound for fertiliser as your K levels are causing the issues or amplifying it.

 

[Rossymons]

Forgot I had that done
More confused now

Very high mag level. Gypsum will act a soil conditioner to pull that mag out.

 

[Headless chicken]

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You need a full analysis done. Need to consider the relation between calcium and magnesium levels

 

[DairyNerd]

Baled on 17th August. Long may this weather continue. Think I might have been going faster on the way down than up with the spinner!

 

[Princess Pooper]

Talking of losing cows
We got 1 field prone to giving cows staggers/mag deficiency
Another this morning with cold ears, but she's OK
Best way to rectify on a field basis?

Don't put any slurry or fym on it for several years.

 

[In the pit]

You need a full analysis done. Need to consider the relation between calcium and magnesium levels

The Myth of the Calcium to Magnesium Ratio

www.eco-gem.com

 

[Homesy]

Forgot I had that done
More confused now

the soil analysis tells you what is in the soil not it's availiblity to the plant and hence what is in the grass. Magnesium cannot be stored by the cow. It must receive some daily via water or in feed.
Put some calcined magnasite in the feed or magnesium choride in the water, preferably via a dosatron pump so every cow gets some.

 

[Beef farmer]

Don't put any slurry or fym on it for several years.

Practical in a dairy farm

 

[som farmer]

Not really bunch of 45 just finishing off a 8 acre clovery silage aftermath that had 3500+kgDM ish on when they went on, if anything they would have been searching a bit on the last day. Have a video of her if anyone wants to see, horrible cough, sounded like a fallow stag roaring.

wouldn't have anything to do with Yorkshire Fog grass, would it ........

 

[vantage]

The Myth of the Calcium to Magnesium Ratio

www.eco-gem.com

Where did the rest of the article go?

 

[vantage]

wouldn't have anything to do with Yorkshire Fog grass, would it ........

Hope not, rented 50 acres of it! Didn’t put up much resistance to glyphosate though!

 

[In the pit]

Where did the rest of the article go?

That’s all I had
Some farmers in Dorset followed a soil specialist woman and spread some real expensive fertiliser on there ground trying to alter mineral ratios in there soils and then figured out it was a complete waste of money

 

[In the pit]

This was all the rage back then

 

[lazy farmer]

That’s all I had
Some farmers in Dorset followed a soil specialist woman and spread some real expensive fertiliser on there ground trying to alter mineral ratios in there soils and then figured out it was a complete waste of money

Don’t you dare dis Jo. Saved my business pure and simple

 

[In the pit]

Don’t you dare dis Jo. Saved my business pure and simple

How she manage that??

 

[lazy farmer]

How she manage that??

Irrelevant. Just putting your narrative right.

 

[dairydurham]

How she manage that??

Incredibly knowledgable woman

 

[In the pit]

Incredibly knowledgable woman

You could say that

 

[lazy farmer]

Incredibly knowledgable woman

Well ahead of her time. Had us using gypsum when it was still allowed to be mined in this country.