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And so was today. I read the sfp is looking like continuing to 2022I see monday is now going to be a washout.
And so was today. I read the sfp is looking like continuing to 2022I see monday is now going to be a washout.
Shower or two here not so good for anyone with grass down or waiting but usefully none the less. How soon does anyone go on with fertiliser after cutting? Hoping to get slurry on next week. Would it be a good time to go in with lime?
Do slurry and lime react? I used to wait to I could see wheel tracks before spreading fertiliser but now try and get it on within a week or so after cutting. Just curious as to other people's ideas.Not good practice to apply slurry and lime within 4 weeks apart.
Ideally slurry after cutting followed by fertiliser a week later.
Do slurry and lime react? I used to wait to I could see wheel tracks before spreading fertiliser but now try and get it on within a week or so after cutting. Just curious as to other people's ideas.
Why on earth did you plan to have a baby at silage time????And
Very same happened me. Mowing on Saturday for Monday start. Wife says she's feeling odd at lunchtime. At 11pm we're in the hospital. Born on the Sunday. Had to ejit up to the hospital twice a day in between rowing fields and looking after stock, for the next two days, and brought them home on the Wednesday. Talk about pressure.
No fortnight's paternity leave.
Why on earth did you plan to have a baby at silage time????
Why on earth did you plan to have a baby at silage time????
Do slurry and lime react? I used to wait to I could see wheel tracks before spreading fertiliser but now try and get it on within a week or so after cutting. Just curious as to other people's ideas.
So I could slurry this week then lime in a month or so, or would there be too much grass then. Maybe best left till the back end.Yes they do react , at least that's what I was told when I done my F.A.C.T.S course a number of years ago, was told to leave a month apart if possible.
Lime along with fertiliser is fine providing it is not urea based , if urea based leave 3-4 weeks of a gap between applications as well.
Slurry first and leaving for several days before fertiliser application is to do with cutting carbon emissions. It will be something which could become more stringent in years to come.
Regarding the timing of fertiliser and slurry. The textbook approach is, not surprisingly, over-simplified in a Northern Ireland context. Sometimes it's easy to follow the book, sometimes the weather gets in the way. Take spring. If slurry is applied in a dry window, and it comes on persistent rain again for several weeks, you won't want to even walk on the land never mind go on with a tractor and spinner. And by the time it skins enough to let you on, the grass is up and you're tramping it down, and it could be getting late for the urea you've got sitting in the shed.
So my preference is to go in front with the sower, clean conditions, and not sealing the slurry in with wheel prints, and killing out the grass. The weather is supposed to be better in the summer, so less issue with ground after cuts. But it's not always like the conditions we have now, and you can easily run into the same issues with slurry on sticky ground.
Another theory might be that, in a dry time, it's more useful to have your fertiliser dissolved by the water in the slurry, and absorbed, than sitting dry on top of a hard slurry crust waiting a week or ten days for rain. Seems to work here.
It's back to the old story of an academic writing a one-size-fits-all policy, without having a real grasp of the day to day challenges to be found across different farm types. They'd make better policy if they were prepared to go out and learn from successful practice occuring on real farms in a variety of different areas, rather than an isolated college or research farm in a favourable location.
Glanbia fixed price scheme for 2018 is 31cpl Inc. vat. If the maths is right 31 = 29.5cpl @ 0.87 = 25.7ppl. That's the current 2017 spring price. Would anyone commit, say 25% of supply if offer that here in the north?
27p I think I would sign. Would depend on the term. Would like 3 years. Lots have signed for less 23pGlanbia fixed price scheme for 2018 is 31cpl Inc. vat. If the maths is right 31 = 29.5cpl @ 0.87 = 25.7ppl. That's the current 2017 spring price. Would anyone commit, say 25% of supply if offered that here in the north?