To spread fert or Not?

[Victor]

Got a field I silaged about a month or so ago and it has greened up a bit even with not much rain
Bit of rain forecast overnight tonight so should I put fert on or no
Forcast is for it to go dry again on Sunday
So should I spread some or wait and leave it in the shed?
Thanks

 

[aangus]

Leave it in the shed, I don't think there will be enough rain really, could do with (dare I say it) an unsettled week or two

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Waste of time putting it on

 

[Yale]

Waste of time putting it on

It’s on a knife edge.

I put some out 2 days ago,it won’t do any good in the shed.

Aftermaths are stutteringly greening and the rain this morning and some heavy dews will help it along.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Get it on, all you need is a shower or morning dew. I got quoted about 300 a ton for fertilizer the other day, l dought nature will have to make it grow at that price.

 

[Raider112]

Get it on, all you need is a shower or morning dew. I got quoted about 300 a ton for fertilizer the other day, l dought nature will have to make it grow at that price.

It's not so much will it do any good but whether it gets hot and dry again so that it won't grow, fert or no fert.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Saw a report last week that due to the warm temps there is the equivalent of 40kg/ha sitting there in the soils mineralised but waiting for water to take it up so don't waste the effort until more substantial rain forecast (and even then I would put it on immediately afterwards - ours would all just disappear down the cracks!)

 

[DeeGee]

Leaving mine in the shed for now, I reckon it will take a lot of rain to get things moving again before it’s worth putting on fertiliser.
Where we had put on liquid biogen about five weeks ago after cutting the grass is definitely dark green, but not much actual growth. I may be wrong but I don’t think we’ve had enough rain yet to make use of any fert.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

It’s on a knife edge.

I put some out 2 days ago,it won’t do any good in the shed.

Aftermaths are stutteringly greening and the rain this morning and some heavy dews will help it along.

Mines stopping in the shed, too expensive to waste, I’ve got cracks you can get your foot lodged in so the fert won’t have any troubles running into them

 

[Yale]

Mines stopping in the shed, too expensive to waste, I’ve got cracks you can get your foot lodged in so the fert won’t have any troubles running into them

We’re on lighter soil so no cracks.

I definitely would not have wanted to have missed the rain we are currently having,probably about half an inch which with the increasingly humid conditions will give the grass a leg up.

 

[cowgirl95]

We’re on lighter soil so no cracks.

I definitely would not have wanted to have missed the rain we are currently having,probably about half an inch which with the increasingly humid conditions will give the grass a leg up.

half an inch how lucky are you that's all we have had in total since late April

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Spread

 

[Yale]

Spread

May have missed the boat now.

We’ve had a real good downpour in the last hour so I’m really pleased I spread.

 

[Victor]

Decided to leave it and go and watch some cricket.

 

[willie waver]

Leave it in the shed, I don't think there will be enough rain really, could do with (dare I say it) an unsettled week or two

has the rain not reached Cumbria? droughts well and truly broken up here

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Decided to leave it and go and watch some cricket.

Rain forecast down here but it doesn't look like it'll come to much. If you're as dry as we are it'll take sustained rain to get it growing again. I spread some back in mid June when we'd had a bit of dampness. You can see where it went - it's a little greener, but there's no grass. And it's drier now. Hopefully it'll take off when decent rain does come.

 

[Spartacus]

Got mine on today, been nicely raining most of today as well so it'll soak it in nicely i think.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

May have missed the boat now.

We’ve had a real good downpour in the last hour so I’m really pleased I spread.

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I spread mine 3 days ago

 

[juke]

Spreaders been lashing fert on wednesday and yesterday after the rains plus what we had today, more chance of getting a 2 nd cut now than there was last week.

 

[Yale]

half an inch how lucky are you that's all we have had in total since late April

Good amount in a random bucket.