Slurry

[Hilly]

What’s best temp to spread, store is nearly full and Iike to get the most out of it if I can , how warm do I need it to be ie min temp ?

 

[bobajob]

When the daffodils start flowering, start spreading!

 

[Cowabunga]

Daffs have been flowering a while around here. I emptied one small pit this afternoon and take about six loads a day to dry fields seven miles away when I can. My home farm fields are all too wet as yet. I've got about 100 loads to spread of slurry with no yard water included, so what I'd term as 'full fat slurry'. Must get that many loads out before grass gets too long or, counting about 1.5 loads a day being produced for another six weeks and a good half load a day until silage time, the store will be full again [100 loads] before the silage is cut, allowing me to just about empty it for the summer. It will be back full again before winter even if I spread some after second cut.

Last year I put on too much per acre after a heavy first cut and it severely reduced second cut yield. So got to be careful.

 

[deleted user 837354]

If the grass is growing get it out.

 

[Cowabunga]

If the grass is growing get it out.

That’s all winter then.

 

[Bald Rick]

That’s all winter then.

Thought that was common practice n Carmarthenshire...

 

[Hilly]

When the daffodils start flowering, start spreading!

Oh ... they don’t here to cold n windy

Daffs have been flowering a while around here. I emptied one small pit this afternoon and take about six loads a day to dry fields seven miles away when I can. My home farm fields are all too wet as yet. I've got about 100 loads to spread of slurry with no yard water included, so what I'd term as 'full fat slurry'. Must get that many loads out before grass gets too long or, counting about 1.5 loads a day being produced for another six weeks and a good half load a day until silage time, the store will be full again [100 loads] before the silage is cut, allowing me to just about empty it for the summer. It will be back full again before winter even if I spread some after second cut.

Last year I put on too much per acre after a heavy first cut and it severely reduced second cut yield. So got to be careful.

daffs don’t grow here too cold windy, we still have patches of snow , this is a super farm in summer autum but not a place you want to be in spring

 

[egbert]

Daffs have been flowering a while around here. I emptied one small pit this afternoon and take about six loads a day to dry fields seven miles away when I can. My home farm fields are all too wet as yet. I've got about 100 loads to spread of slurry with no yard water included, so what I'd term as 'full fat slurry'. Must get that many loads out before grass gets too long or, counting about 1.5 loads a day being produced for another six weeks and a good half load a day until silage time, the store will be full again [100 loads] before the silage is cut, allowing me to just about empty it for the summer. It will be back full again before winter even if I spread some after second cut.

Last year I put on too much per acre after a heavy first cut and it severely reduced second cut yield. So got to be careful.

Carting what is presumably mostly water 7 miles?
I'm not getting at you personally Cowabunga, it's a situation that has grown up around us, and doesn't get anywhere near flying to Thailand for a weeks sun, but still....it'll hardly stand detached analysis

 

[Hilly]

Think I will get a pipe in first week of April, getting fed up of tanking had a price an it’s not that dear.

 

[deleted user 837354]

That’s all winter then.

Put some out December, you could see within days where the grass changed colour. Been fairly mild to be fair.

 

[Cowabunga]

Carting what is presumably mostly water 7 miles?
I'm not getting at you personally Cowabunga, it's a situation that has grown up around us, and doesn't get anywhere near flying to Thailand for a weeks sun, but still....it'll hardly stand detached analysis

No external water but the stuff, you know, that comes out of the rear end of cows. From my point of view it would be far more economical to run it off the cliff, but that isn’t acceptable apparently. As little as possible is carted this distance because not only is it costly but it is exceptionally tedious. You manage your business and i’ll manage mine if that’s OK.

 

[egbert]

No external water but the stuff, you know, that comes out of the rear end of cows. From my point of view it would be far more economical to run it off the cliff, but that isn’t acceptable apparently. As little as possible is carted this distance because not only is it costly but it is exceptionally tedious. You manage your business and i’ll manage mine if that’s OK.

S'far as i know, what comes out of a cow is mostly water.
(Certainly at least 2-3 times as much fluid goes in as dry matter)
I'm merely observing that hauling it miles can't long term be good practise.
I'm not criticising you for doing what is legal or even normal procedure. OK

I cart fodder twice as far on a regular basis, it makes sense in my situation -or did when there was some margin in the stock.
But I can see it doesn't stack up, and that I ought find better ways to work.

As an industry, I think we should ask these questions of ourselves, lest others do...cos they might be carrying a feck off big stick.

 

[Hilly]

Separators the future ? How much are they ? My slurry is like fym this yeAr weird wettest winter ever.