Fert on

[Lewis]

With the weather starting too improve and ground condition slowly getting better ready to travel , time to think about getting the sugar shaker hitched on to give the grass a kick up the ass.

Many already been out and got some done? Urea seems to be the thing to out on early but obviously perhaps the wet weather has prohibited this? Not something I know anything about urea.

Seen a response?

Do people prefer to put two separate doses on 1st cut instead of one full dose?

What rates are people going on with and with what?

 

[deleted user 837354]

Get it going.

Urea is fine but slow to show response in cool conditions. If you have urea now is the time to use it.

Lot of people seem to be putting the bigger silage doses on in one lump these days but most are not putting the real heavyweight doses of old on.

 

[Beef farmer]

Always been split dose, 1st week of feb 2nd week of March. Weather restrictions been it all went on this last week, at a reduced rate. Dont want to delay 1st cut.
Grazing ground also missed its 1st application, but had a fair kick if dirty water over the winter.

 

[Headless chicken]

Silage ground has had one application should’ve been split but weather too poor.
haven’t managed to cover it all yet though plenty of blocks still too wet to travel

Grazing ground has

 

[Tarw Coch]

I’ll be putting urea on this week, with the amount of rain we’ve been having i have to think that any earlier would have been a waste of nutrients.
Will top up with nitrogen later, it hasn’t arrived yet despite being ordered January for February delivery, are they really that busy this year?

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Nothing done here yet as have been wanting better temperatures.
Hopefully next week looking at the forecast. At the moment anyway.
Will most likely be a reduced dose also.

 

[Headless chicken]

I’ll be putting urea on this week, with the amount of rain we’ve been having i have to think that any earlier would have been a waste of nutrients.
Will top up with nitrogen later, it hasn’t arrived yet despite being ordered January for February delivery, are they really that busy this year?

nope they’re very quiet infact. Ours arrived within a few days of the orders

 

[Tarw Coch]

nope they’re very quiet infact. Ours arrived within a few days of the orders

As I thought which is why I did text the seller yesterday and who did actually ask if I’d had it yet last week.
It won’t be the first time I’ve had delivery problems ordering in good time, rather strangely whenever I order last minute it allways seems to turn up promptly even in years when transport is supposed to be a problem.
I

 

[jerseycowsman]

With the weather starting too improve and ground condition slowly getting better ready to travel , time to think about getting the sugar shaker hitched on to give the grass a kick up the ass.

Many already been out and got some done? Urea seems to be the thing to out on early but obviously perhaps the wet weather has prohibited this? Not something I know anything about urea.

Seen a response?

Do people prefer to put two separate doses on 1st cut instead of one full dose?

What rates are people going on with and with what?

Did 25 units of straight urea about 6 weeks ago on the grazing, loads of grass that I have only started grazing yesterday!
Shall do half the rate on all the silage ground this week

 

[Grazer]

I'm just following the milkers around the platform. Happy enough not having too much in each paddock first round, especially when we've started a few weeks later this year. But if you get back round to the grass you've grazed and theres nothing there. . . Trouble.

 

[jimmer]

70 units of liquid going on today

 

[farmerste]

70 units of liquid going on today

we just had another day of liquid on ours, rain!! Gonna be at least another week before even thinking about going near a field with a tractor

 

[pappuller]

we just had another day of liquid on ours, rain!! Gonna be at least another week before even thinking about going near a field with a tractor

We've put 55 units of urea on all the silage ground, one field maybe would of been better left alone [emoji85]

 

[The Agrarian]

Did a hundred odd acres of silage in that last good spell at the start of February with two bags of 40 urea 14 sulphur. Much of the sulphur has to be gone, but you takes your chance. Nitrogen got soaking in good conditions before the bad weather started, so I live in hope. The rest of the ground probably needs to Monday before tackling it to be honest. Tuesday was a really really bad day here. Keen to get the tankers moving as the first week of May is getting uncomfortably close.

 

[Beef farmer]

Did a hundred odd acres of silage in that last good spell at the start of February with two bags of 40 urea 14 sulphur. Much of the sulphur has to be gone, but you takes your chance. Nitrogen got soaking in good conditions before the bad weather started, so I live in hope. The rest of the ground probably needs to Monday before tackling it to be honest. Tuesday was a really really bad day here. Keen to get the tankers moving as the first week of May is getting uncomfortably close.

You still slresd slurry on cutting ground?

 

[The Agrarian]

Yeah, but the amount of water we've collected, it's thin.

 

[Lewis]

You still slresd slurry on cutting ground?

By Monday I'm hopeful the fields will travel with the tanker and fertilizer arrived on Wednesday so maybe get some on end of next week too looks like will be getting a good few cold nights so don't see an immediate rush for the fert to go on . 2st cuts usually 2nd week in may here .

 

[The Agrarian]

It's getting late.