Drought Help

[renewablejohn]

Too small. Big dairy farmers turn their noses up at small amounts. It's 1000 bales or 100 acres.....or nothing. They're not smart enough to work out that 10 lots of 10 acres = 100 acres.

Thats exactly the case. Not worth getting the mower out for 10 acres. Dont have the kit as contractor does all there silage in a day. Normal excuses I hear.

 

[glasshouse]

i,m in the very middle of ireland
west leinster
why?

Location,location,location.!
i thought irish farmers were desperate for fodder.

 

[glasshouse]

Thats exactly the case. Not worth getting the mower out for 10 acres. Dont have the kit as contractor does all there silage in a day. Normal excuses I hear.

i have spent the last month cutting and baling grass that nobody else wants

 

[Ashtree]

How's it looking there now is the grass coming back

I went away for a break 10 days ago, leaving 10 acres of silage ground fertilised a month previous. It was green and not much more than ankle height. I got back yesterday to a pretty much full crop well ready to cut. Getting plenty heavy showers and soil temps well up. Serious growth now.
Old folks always claimed every year produces a more or less equal amount of grass averaged over the year.
Im on west coast.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I went away for a break 10 days ago, leaving 10 acres of silage ground fertilised a month previous. It was green and not much more than ankle height. I got back yesterday to a pretty much full crop well ready to cut. Getting plenty heavy showers and soil temps well up. Serious growth now.
Old folks always claimed every year produces a more or less equal amount of grass averaged over the year.
Im on west coast.

Would you then think the panic in Ireland is calming down , or perhaps delayed until later in the winter.

 

[jpd]

Location,location,location.!
i thought irish farmers were desperate for fodder.

They are
But since milk quotas went
The market for silage bales has dissappeared.
The want of straw is driven by the need of roughage to mix with straights and other cereals to feed cows I assume

 

[Ashtree]

Would you then think the panic in Ireland is calming down , or perhaps delayed until later in the winter.

My sense is that there is enough time now that rain has arrived, to do enough to substantially reduce the forage deficite. Slurry / chem nitrogen spreading window has also been extended to help folks.
There will be a shortage, but hopefully not a full blown crisis.

 

[Still Farming]

Whos's this just now ?
Hope ok

 

[Tarw Coch]

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Whos's this just now ?
Hope ok

An unusual way of stacking big bales, haven’t seen them stacked like that on a lorry before and 6 high.

 

[JP1]

Real desperate stuff in NSW Australia right now

https://www.gofundme.com/save-our-cattle

 

[glasshouse]

Why has matk

They are
But since milk quotas went
The market for silage bales has dissappeared.
The want of straw is driven by the need of roughage to mix with straights and other cereals to feed cows I assume

I dont understand why market for round silage bales has gone

 

[glasshouse]

Real desperate stuff in NSW Australia right now

https://www.gofundme.com/save-our-cattle

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hope they are all non smokers

 

[JP1]

hope they are all non smokers

I don't understand

 

[glasshouse]

I don't understand

thats one big mother of bonfire if it caught light

 

[jpd]

Why has matk

I dont understand why market for round silage bales has gone

me neither
i thought id be swanning in a Ferrari selling al l the larger herds extra silage and hay.
it appears that diet feeders with straw as roughage and fodderbeet,maize or meals added to it is the way the larger herds are feeding.
i was losing money making and selling silage
so i still make hay for sale
but each year i am ploughing out grass for barley.
plenty of demand for straw
esp this year, with straw returns of 2 round 4 x 4 per acre in places.
the really large outfits got lorry loads of palm kernal during the drought.my sources tell me that lucerne from holland is being imported.
a rising tide lifting all boats?
the milk tide certainly isnt lifting mine

 

[7610 super q]

I seriously thought I was on to a winner with my hay this year too. It wasn't long before the doom mongers talked about endless fields of hay being baled, " Fields that haven't seen a mower in 20 years " . Oh dear thinks I. Then we hear of the " fodder crisis ", Oh well, stick an add on FB then. Nothing. Zilch. f**k all. Did manage to sell it eventually, but won't be buying that Range Rover after all......

I blame social media. In the past it was all about what happens locally, Now the forums and FB pages are awash with " experts " who waffle on about gluts/ price collapses / shortages / exports to Brazil / imports from Poland / never seen so much baled / haven't seen many wagons passing my house etc, etc........

 

[bobk]

I seriously thought I was on to a winner with my hay this year too. It wasn't long before the doom mongers talked about endless fields of hay being baled, " Fields that haven't seen a mower in 20 years " . Oh dear thinks I. Then we hear of the " fodder crisis ", Oh well, stick an add on FB then. Nothing. Zilch. fudge all. Did manage to sell it eventually, but won't be buying that Range Rover after all......

I blame social media. In the past it was all about what happens locally, Now the forums and FB pages are awash with " experts " who waffle on about gluts/ price collapses / shortages / exports to Brazil / imports from Poland / never seen so much baled / haven't seen many wagons passing my house etc, etc........

Bring it here I'll sell it for you .

 

[jpd]

I seriously thought I was on to a winner with my hay this year too. It wasn't long before the doom mongers talked about endless fields of hay being baled, " Fields that haven't seen a mower in 20 years " . Oh dear thinks I. Then we hear of the " fodder crisis ", Oh well, stick an add on FB then. Nothing. Zilch. fudge all. Did manage to sell it eventually, but won't be buying that Range Rover after all......

I blame social media. In the past it was all about what happens locally, Now the forums and FB pages are awash with " experts " who waffle on about gluts/ price collapses / shortages / exports to Brazil / imports from Poland / never seen so much baled / haven't seen many wagons passing my house etc, etc........

met a guy today that has bought hay from me in the past,
and sells some of his own
claims to have got€30 off the field for 4 x 4;s this summer

 

[jpd]

i think its all location dependant
the storeman in the local dealer
in the middle of a competitive area
gets €15 per bale of round silage leaving the field
and this was before the drought
when i asked €12 instead of €10
a couple of years ago
after spending a fortune on fert and lime-with me mowing it
didnt even tell me to f off
just said nothing ,got in his car and drove off
i had fun that summer makin hay out of that