Maize 2022

[Keep On]

Mzuri more like 100k

 

[Sparkymark]

Out spraying the maize this week. The pre em was starting to wear off. All the fert went in the seed bed this year rather than top dressing with nitrogen.

 

[Sambo]

The strip tilled patch in 1 of our fields with slurry injected at the same time. The rest of the field had slurry splash plated, sumoed and power harrowed before drilling. It is also alot cleaner of weed apart from alittle in the cultivated strip.

 

[som farmer]

thought dairy trade was a tad easier to day, at exeter, still a good trade though, but some sensible buys.

 

[Beef farmer]

thought dairy trade was a tad easier to day, at exeter, still a good trade though, but some sensible buys.

Really?
Thought the opposite, lot of October calving cows and empty cows. All things that have slipped out of some high yielding autumn calvers.

 

[som farmer]

Really?
Thought the opposite, lot of October calving cows and empty cows. All things that have slipped out of some high yielding autumn calvers.

we bought some decent priced i/c, actually knew the farm that bred them, not the farm that sold them. Brown Swizz didn't seem very popular either. Anything with a 'fault' got hit hard. And a #### from up near us, certainly made the trade on the 1st calvers, from W & Knight
didn't stay to see the i/c hfrs sold, though a text said they were dear. Would have been keen on the stirks at the end, but, got enough to do back here, and you never know how long, it takes to get back, good run today though.
Our thoughts were generally easier, ours were dirt cheap, but we have had cows, from where they were bred, and they have been excellent, 4 plain barreners will pay for them !

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

we bought some decent priced i/c, actually knew the farm that bred them, not the farm that sold them. Brown Swizz didn't seem very popular either. Anything with a 'fault' got hit hard. And a #### from up near us, certainly made the trade on the 1st calvers, from W & Knight
didn't stay to see the i/c hfrs sold, though a text said they were dear. Would have been keen on the stirks at the end, but, got enough to do back here, and you never know how long, it takes to get back, good run today though.
Our thoughts were generally easier, ours were dirt cheap, but we have had cows, from where they were bred, and they have been excellent, 4 plain barreners will pay for them !

I thought the cows on Wednesday were reasonable ok they were older cows but had the calf out of them and milked on then culled out you would make a tidy return I would think.

 

[som farmer]

I thought the cows on Wednesday were reasonable ok they were older cows but had the calf out of them and milked on then culled out you would make a tidy return I would think.

it was the not warranted i/c and empty, running with the bull, that looked serious money, mainly younger ones came up near here, they looked stupid, high fertility herd, not i/c yet ........
made the i/c ones look cheaper. But no real standout £2,000 cows, 1 i think.
Didn't see fromes, but averages on dairy looked lower.

 

[Beef farmer]

it was the not warranted i/c and empty, running with the bull, that looked serious money, mainly younger ones came up near here, they looked stupid, high fertility herd, not i/c yet ........
made the i/c ones look cheaper. But no real standout £2,000 cows, 1 i think.
Didn't see fromes, but averages on dairy looked lower.

Those cows where doing 27l+ and where monstor big from a 10k herd. 1200 bought them, milk off grass and cake till Oct...positive seasonality, so 50p then knock em down. Seems a good little job to me

 

[Ducati899]

My weeds are worse. I have a feeling we share an agronomist and he said yours was better than mine. Mine was drilled into dust so we didn't do a pre em.
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Haven’t done a pre em here for 4 years now and haven’t regretted it,all has plenty of slurry as well

 

[Keep On]

Motoring on

 

[som farmer]

Haven’t done a pre em here for 4 years now and haven’t regretted it,all has plenty of slurry as well

we are selective about using one. If the maize really gets going, will shade out any weed growth.
saw some seriously good crops, going to exeter yesterday. But we used/still say, knee high, by 4th of july, and that date isn't far off.

 

[Jdunn55]

Pleased with that! Might just make the 4th July deadline

 

[Headless chicken]

Pleased with that! Might just make the 4th July deadline

Looks better than mine

 

[Sparkymark]

Pleased with that! Might just make the 4th July deadline

Nice clean crop

 

[som farmer]

Pleased with that! Might just make the 4th July deadline

dead line ? what deadline ? Chap up here, drilled his weds, after rye.

 

[vinnie123]

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Same spot yesterday

 

[Beef farmer]

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Same spot yesterday

Once the canopy closes and tour harvesting 100% of the sunlight it really moves.

 

[vinnie123]

This has a bit of catching up to do and desperately needs a drink ! But had two cuts of grass off it first and went in a month after the bit above . Probably done 6t/ac already so will be interesting how it performs tonnage wise . Zero fertiliser. Duxxbury

 

[Jdunn55]

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This has a bit of catching up to do and desperately needs a drink ! But had two cuts of grass off it first and went in a month after the bit above . Probably done 6t/ac already so will be interesting how it performs tonnage wise . Zero fertiliser. Duxxbury

Green Farm seeds?

Thought mine was looking good until I saw yours what date did the first lot go in out of interest? Mine went in for later than I hoped