Nitrogen requirement for a 1 cut Westerwold then flipped over into Maize

Serup

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Curious how much would you put on @Serup and what sort of leys? Assume you’d grow a fair amount of maize?

I grow perennial mixes (DLF foragemax), based on 4-5 different ryegrass, fescue and red- and white clover. 5 cuts/year.
It's not the same mixes they have on the international website, but i grow these two at the moment:


My forage is divided between 30-40% grass and 60-70% maize. I grow about 0,6 ha/cow with forage.

I usually put 80-90 kg N/ha for new leys - i always seed in august - and 100-120 kg N/ha on older fields, dependant on how much clover is left, before first cut.
In dry years old fields primarely get slurry. All fields only gets slurry after first cut and the rest of the season.
 

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