Manure management

Hampton

Member
BASIS
Location
Shropshire
I'm mucking out the sheds at the moment and got to thinking( dangerous I know), should I turn the muck 3or 4 times and make compost, or should I leave it as is. If fertilizer is still expensive how many tonnes per hectare. Probably have a couple hundred tonnes. Normally spread 12 to 15 tonnes to the hectare. Spreading will be end of September. Will be going under oats and wheat.
Lighter ground with below normal P and K above normal, I had soil tested and P needed 25kgs to get into normal band.
Leave it as is, put it all under the wheat, use less growth reg on the oats.
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My point is, the old licences may apply in one place but not the other. Did you personally know the irrigation licence details and why one farm can irrigate and next door can't? Throw in a border and different licencing procedures !

It wasn't just one farm. You could see it along both sides of the Rhine in both directions very readily. The Germans had obviously stopped irrigation from the Rhine totally.
 

Bokey

Member
Mixed Farmer
If you'd all of voted le pen I'm sure she'd of come with her fork loosened a few buttons on that blouse and turned it for you😉
 

le bon paysan

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
It wasn't just one farm. You could see it along both sides of the Rhine in both directions very readily. The Germans had obviously stopped irrigation from the Rhine totally.
Yes, but you don't know the region / local regulations. For all you know one side had it for one month, the other side the next. Or any number of permutations.
You can't say it's one side respects rules the other doesn't.
Irrigation regs are enforced by the Police de la Eau. You don't mess with them. Fines for non compliance are huge and jail.
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
So far I am really happy with the idea of turning the heap a coupl of times to get it all broken up properly and cut the quantity (about 2000 tonnes in my case pa).

I normally spread in the autumn before wheat but this year decided to turn the winter muck heap and spread on the wheat in the spring.

So far, as i say, it looks like a good plan, made minimal damage - 8m spread so every third one was a tramline - where I didn't spread due to field edges etc is obviously much more yellow although I did cut the urea across the whole field so the edges were a bit low anyhow.
 

BenAdamsAgri

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
Oxfordshire
I'm mucking out the sheds at the moment and got to thinking( dangerous I know), should I turn the muck 3or 4 times and make compost, or should I leave it as is. If fertilizer is still expensive how many tonnes per hectare. Probably have a couple hundred tonnes. Normally spread 12 to 15 tonnes to the hectare. Spreading will be end of September. Will be going under oats and wheat.
Lighter ground with below normal P and K above normal, I had soil tested and P needed 25kgs to get into normal band.
If you are going to compost don't pile it higher than two metres and try to stop it getting over 65 degrees. Long windrows are easiest. You will lose some of the mass but will have less to spread of a better product.
 

czechmate

Member
Mixed Farmer
If you are going to compost don't pile it higher than two metres and try to stop it getting over 65 degrees. Long windrows are easiest. You will lose some of the mass but will have less to spread of a better product.

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