Fertilizer replacement
- Thread starter Jabk
- Start date
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
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Is that what your planning to spread or what you do when you see the latest fertiliser prices!!
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Shite my pants and spread itIs that what your planning to spread or what you do when you see the latest fertiliser prices!!
Pistonbroke
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How much value would hen muck lose over winter if stored under cover? I can get a fair bit locally but come the spring everyone will be after it
- Location
- Cheshire
Even if it’s stored in a pit outside, I’ve found once it crusts over it keeps most of its power!
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Mix it with your straw from a covered yard and pull a sheet over it in a clam. Would be interesting to see what would happen.
Pistonbroke
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At the moment it's £10 ton delivered so a couple of ton to the acre sounds reasonable but I expect if it's spread now we won't get the benefit of having it in the spring
- Location
- Cheshire
You make a seriously good muck too spread! This is what we used too do in the winter, 20t of battery muck a week tipped up and just keep cleaning the cattle out into the pile all winter. Then when you load it up in spring it all mixes and he’ll you can grow some grass!
Unfortunately the landlord next door set up a wedding venue so spreading hen muck had too be kiboshed!!
- Location
- Ceredigion
If you got no alternative so legumes , I've got plenty of slurry ATM
- Location
- Ceredigion
Test your ground anyway
- Location
- Ceredigion
Red Clover here yes , put a bit of Hybrid Ryegrass with it , that will boost the yield and add Sugar to aid fermentation , I also add some annual clover to mine that boosts it first year ,. Depends on your ground though , can you grow Lucerne , no hope of that here , I've not gone overboard with clover here as all the slurry that comes in gives me problems with docks though
- Location
- Ceredigion
To Dry Perhaps?
I take it the P& K is sound and PH needs to be over 6 , I put very little N in the seedbed also
I take it the P& K is sound and PH needs to be over 6 , I put very little N in the seedbed also
ollie989898
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It doesn't loose that much of it's poke. Best sheeted over in all honesty to keep the rain out though.
- Location
- Wiltshire
This was my 1st year growing Lucerne, it’s been really successful but still learning. All baled not possible to clamp. Only fert was a little K. 3 cuts as 1st was late due to wet may. Early weed control was challenging.
It doesn’t like compaction and lots of slurry an issue but I can see the area increasing.
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