How much nitrogen?
- Thread starter marsh89
- Start date
Old perm pasture no test done
- Location
- Ceredigion
How much clover
25.5 .5 is usually where its at , around 40 units acre N . Dont go to heavy with N with sheep or you be forever dagging and not to much potash either
- Location
- Ceredigion
The best money you will ever spend is on a soil test
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Soil tests don't influence the amount of N I apply.
Do you test for N in soil tests?
- Location
- North Yorkshire
True, but if pH is low then money would be better spent on lime? The lower the pH, the less effective N is? ( I think
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- Location
- Ceredigion
Read the book not one page . If is soil is low in P and K and Short if lime his N is a waste of time . If his K index is high and he puts more K on his sheep could drop like flies .
But as we don't know his best option is to keep everything at a low level
- Location
- North wales
who do people on here recommend or soil testing?
100kg/ acre
- Location
- Ceredigion
You can do your own, just open an account with a Lab , but I'm lucky as Adas have trial plots here so I can use one of their part time lads to do it
Its amazing to see how land improves when you take it back to where it should be , to see the clover come, wonderfull
- Location
- North wales
which lab would recommend? I usually send samples to my local Wynstay but everything has become a bit unreliable since the pandemic it took 2 month for me to get my silage sample results bac
- Location
- Cornwall.
Lancrop Laboratories
- Location
- Ceredigion
https://www.cawoodscientific.uk.com/nrm/ this one i use
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Bet some slag would help it.
Personally I just apply straight N to grazing as it's all going back onto land.
Apply potash on silage ground to replace off take.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Its a job when commenting on topics as we don't have any history or what they want from it
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Think they just wanted to know how much N to put on grazing land!
Personally I put on 125kg/ha of a N:S blend per month from April to August
Depends on the amount of grass you need, you get out what you put in! If you're a dairy farm looking for every blade of grass then that's very different to a low intensity system.
There isn't a one size fits all approach here. Except you should have your pH at 6 and know what the P and K soil indices are (soil testing....)
Oh yes, and don't forget sulphur too.
