Kg per acre

[Coop]

hi how many kg per acre of 20.10.10 would you put on permanent pasture for sheep grazing?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

2 x 50 kg
Be carefull as to much potash can cause staggers in milking ewes if you put to much on in one hit

 

[farmerm]

Depends on the perm pasture. Much of ours gets none.

 

[bobk]

All of ours gets none , the sheep provide the fertility

 

[Derrick Hughes]

All of ours gets none , the sheep provide the fertility

The fertility has ti be there to recycle it , as we have no idea what his fertility is we can only assume he knows that ,unless he provides more info, which could be a long post

 

[Agrivator]

Permanent pasture maintained in good heart - lime, plus muck and/or adequate fertiliser - has two major benefits.

1. It carries more stock which do better this year.

2. It results in significantly earlier grass growth next year.

 

[dinderleat]

250kg/ha but a few soil tests may be beneficial. Have you got a straight nitran you could use instead?

 

[Chae1]

All of ours gets none , the sheep provide the fertility

I just put straight N on there won't be much off take. They sh!t and p!ss it back onto grass.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

hi how many kg per acre of 20.10.10 would you put on permanent pasture for sheep grazing?

Bet you wished you never asked now
Just look at it two ways,
Nitram is Robbing the Bank . P & K is putting money back in

 

[neilo]

Bet you wished you never asked now
Just look at it two ways,
Nitram is Robbing the Bank . P & K is putting money back in

It’s only robbing the bank if you take a crop off and sell it to some merchant or other.
Grazing doesn’t remove much P&K, which is why many farms that have always used 20:10:10 now have wastefully high indices.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It’s only robbing the bank if you take a crop off and sell it to some merchant or other.
Grazing doesn’t remove much P&K, which is why many farms that have always used 20:10:10 now have wastefully high indices.

If he had sheep on it for many years and not tested it how do you know its not low, it may be terminal low
If you put Nitrogen on without P& K the grass will remove more potash, in the end P and K will fall

 

[goodevans]

All of ours gets none , the sheep provide the fertility

Something has to walk off with the sheep so I can only assume something has to be replaced or the sheep aren't doing

 

[HarryB97]

Very little as permanent grass barley responds to fertiliser unlike temporary leys

 

[aangus]

hi how many kg per acre of 20.10.10 would you put on permanent pasture for sheep grazing?

Depends on how hard you are going to stock it. You could put on 50kg now and then go again later