Don't you mean nearer £100.00 for IRG your figure is quite high.Got a few fields similar, we springtime harrowed it pulling all the moss out ( brilliant thing) then slit seeded Italian rye grass into it. It's come well and I was pretty surprised.
in the long term it needs ploughing but to get a few years of better grazing it helps.
The grass seed cost around £200 every four acres, I also limed it and fert.
Just to add a spanner to the works
We see alot of moss on all our North facing slopes from late autumn to spring. one particularly bad patch we tested expecting terrible results, but came back ph 6.2
P 2 &K 2.
So that wasn't the trouble,
So tried harrowing at the start of the winter, sure pulled loads of moss out...... a couple weeks later you'd never knew you'd done it as it all grew back.
So harrowed in the spring, this time the grass was actively growing so the moss didn't have a chance to come back, but come the autumn it was back just the same.
I can only assume it's a sunlight (lack of) thing, compounded by the fact that given the choice the stock won't graze on the north side in the winter.
And possibly the fact the north facing slopes never really dry out in the winter.
On my no till fields I sometimes get a lot of moss in the winter and then it dissapears later on when the plants shade it out. Its odd because the ph is quite high.
Don't you mean nearer £100.00 for IRG your figure is quite high.
I've got some fields with moss , last few weeks they've been a life saver for feeding the twins with the snacker and just somewhere dry to lie down but soon as the weather improves the einbock soon sorts it out for the summerGot some ground like this -
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Whats the best way of getting it improved? Harrow?
Every black cloud has a silver lining!!I've got some fields with moss , last few weeks they've been a life saver for feeding the twins with the snacker and just somewhere dry to lie down but soon as the weather improves the einbock soon sorts it out for the summer
Dad reckons that N gets rid of moss, but I think it's more likely it's just coincidence that N goes on in the spring when the moss is disappearing anyway,
N killing the moss or grass growing faster?
Combination of several factors I would have thought
I doubt it