Lime grows grass

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
This is a perm pasture that’s not been ploughed/reseeded/cultivated in over 50 years.....

Back in sept grazed to the ground and then had 1t/acre ground limestone with the plan to run cattle over winter ready to dd a summer forage crop in-front of a grass reseed in the autumn.

Very pleased with how the grass has responded to being hammered and then limed.

 

JMTHORNLEY

Member
Location
Glossop
I have had some similarish results with a very old PP bit of ground of ours this summer. I subsoiled, dropped a drain in where it needed it and hammered with lime then rotovated and used winfred for the first time instead of a turnip or kale mixture. I was very impressed with the results. Grazed the kale early because our sowing window for a back end grass reseed is pretty short. Here’s some results and some more figures if anyone’s interested

PH before 5.5
PH after 7
P before 1.1
K beofre 0.9
P after 1.8
K after 1.6

I rotovated 10/12T to the acre of fresh bedding muck into the kale reseed then 100kgs to the acre of P&K out the bag for grass reseed cattle were held tight and back fenced onto the fodder crop so as not to loose any valuable P&K
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Last picture has had 15 lambs per are for 3 weeks and they’ve hardly touched it. Really pleased with the results of using a different break crop. Can highly recommend Grass Sciences winter pioneer crop or his Winfred 👌🏻
 

JMTHORNLEY

Member
Location
Glossop
Great result. How much lime did you put on to lift it that far? Good thick sward for a reseed.

I use prilled lime through my Breedle now and it works a treat
Put 900kgs an acre on and will top dress every year after. Gets a lot of stick prilled but if you can spread it correctly it’s better than crushed in my opinion
 

Macsky

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Highland
Thread resurrection alert 🚨
Im looking at £40-50/t delivered price for good calcium lime, starting to think that prilled lime may be more cost effective, taking the fineness/effectiveness of it into account. what is a tonne of pilled lime costing these days?
 

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