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stanflt

maize pic taken same date one year ago




yesterday same field

stanflt

some home blending

C0N0R

:rolleyes:

quadboy wrote: »

Marmalade and jam

It's a good one, gave me a laugh when I remembered it!

bob charles

stanflt wrote: »

maize pic taken same date one year ago

are you sure thats not a picture from 25th of June last year??

bob charles

stanflt wrote: »

some home blending

great to see there is more than one messer than myself blending fert in such a way:). I better not mention the day I decided to blend some lumpy stuff in the diet feeder :mad:

stanflt

bob charles wrote: »

are you sure thats not a picture from 25th of June last year??

I wish it was bob

With the wet year and it took a serious hammering from spraying in early June that it stayed yellow for 8 weeks- most of it was under water for 3 weeks

Yielded 5 tonne acre

Timmaay

stanflt wrote: »

I wish it was bob

With the wet year and it took a serious hammering from spraying in early June that it stayed yellow for 8 weeks most of it was under water for 3 weeks

Yielded 5 tonne acre

Owch, thats one of the worst yeilds I've heard, but I bet you're glad you stuck with it this year, I know lads who swore never again after last year, and now kicking themselves. The neighbour reckons his will yeild 22ton/acre, what are you hoping for?

stanflt

Timmaay wrote: »

Owch, thats one of the worst yeilds I've heard, but I bet you're glad you stuck with it this year, I know lads who swore never again after last year, and now kicking themselves. The neighbour reckons his will yeild 22ton/acre, what are you hoping for?

Our best yield was 22 tonne and maybe just maybe we will hammer it this year

bob charles

stanflt wrote: »

I wish it was bob

With the wet year and it took a serious hammering from spraying in early June that it stayed yellow for 8 weeks- most of it was under water for 3 weeks

Yielded 5 tonne acre

Plenty of maize yields 5 ton per acre but you wont win a willy waving contest saying as such. Best crop I ever had done around 11t ac cut the 5 of Dec 10. Dm around 50%, taught we would never get it cut

just shows different locations as when I saw your pic from last year and looked back on my own and had a picture from the 25th of June looking better than your crop. We had a good average crop here last year and I dont see this years crop being that much better. I dont have land for maize next year so wont have any probably

look at what last years harvest has done to one of the headlands in one of the fields of maize. All well and good hitting massive yields in the middle of the field but if you have a large headland missing in smallish fields it will drag down the yield very quickly. I could look at the second picture as it portrays a lot better looking situation:rolleyes:

Manoffeeling

You could see a frog's willy there. Headlands cost the same per acre to sow as the best part of the field.

bob charles

Manoffeeling wrote: »

You could see a frog's willy there. Headlands cost the same per acre to sow as the best part of the field.

thats for sure, pic is of an 8ac field, probably an acre on the missing list

Marooned75

Some size of rat

Figerty

Marooned75 wrote: »

Some size of rat

Jaysus!

bob charles

Marooned75 wrote: »

Some size of rat

Thats a horse of a Rat, what was he feeding on

limo_100

bob charles wrote: »

Thats a horse of a Rat, what was he feeding on

must be my feckin calf krunch

bob charles

limo_100 wrote: »

must be my feckin calf krunch

You could sell that fellow as a runner in the back end

limo_100

bob charles wrote: »

You could sell that fellow as a runner in the back end

i think hes over fed for the factory hes done himself out of a good grade. Then again he heavier and prob has more meet then jersey bulls

mf240

hes the leinster house rat. the fatcats were to lazy to chase him.

Manoffeeling

Marooned75 wrote: »

Some size of rat

I haven't seen a rat that size since the lads stopped using Angel Dust.

Juniorhurler

Marooned75 wrote: »

Some size of rat

Saw them that size on my travels through The Gambia in Africa. They have an indigenous giant rat. They hunt and eat them. I couldn't bring myself to partake in that particular feast. They say it lives off plants only and does not scavenge but I am not believing that as I saw no grass to speak of and I travelled both sides of the river.

Marooned75

An angling club up north shot it

just do it

For you guys looking for rain, taken just now

redzerologhlen

just do it wrote: »

For you guys looking for rain, taken just now

I'm sitting in a cave waiting for the rain to stop so I can go back to the jeep, it's fair bad.

Kovu

redzerologhlen wrote: »

I'm sitting in a cave waiting for the rain to stop so I can go back to the jeep, it's fair bad.

Draw some stick figures on the walls:p

hugo29

Jayus that looks bleak,Lovely day here, no rain at all,

naughto

just do it wrote: »

For you guys looking for rain, taken just now

we have that here now some rain

hugo29

It's coming this way so then,

vanderbadger

redzerologhlen wrote: »

I'm sitting in a cave waiting for the rain to stop so I can go back to the jeep, it's fair bad.

ya nearly washed away down my end as well :rolleyes:

Conmaicne Mara

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Draw some stick figures on the walls:p

Set up a tourism business on the back of it :cool:

Kovu

hugo29 wrote: »

It's coming this way so then,

It's needed if it does come this way. We haven't gotten any thunder showers at all here.

just do it

Kovu Murr wrote: »

It's needed if it does come this way. We haven't gotten any thunder showers at all here.

But I thought you're only over the ditch from rellig?!

Kovu

just do it wrote: »

But I thought you're only over the dutch from rellig?!

I am, we could see the shower that he got the other evening but nothing fell here other than a light shower. Strange, strange weather.

reilig

Kovu Murr wrote: »

I am, we could see the shower that he got the other evening but nothing fell here other than a light shower. Strange, strange weather.

Did ye not get all that rain on Thursday night? We were washed out of it. Ground is in sh1t!

1chippy

naughto wrote: »

we have that here now some rain

Only another 55mm more to go then.

just do it

I was watching that shower I threw up pictures of approaching earlier. You could see it was heavy but probably no more than half a mile wide. The rainfall radar on met.ie had it spot on. Could see it coming up through cork and then limerick

Kovu

reilig wrote: »

Did ye not get all that rain on Thursday night? We were washed out of it. Ground is in sh1t!

Nothing at all thunder-y here. We could see the blackness of the arriving storm over the hill though.

Can ye do that raindance for me southerners:D

grazeaway

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Nothing at all thunder-y here. We could see the blackness of the arriving storm over the hill though.

Can ye do that raindance for me southerners:D

Had savage rain here the other night grand an sunny for most of the day, gang in the field seem happy out anyway.

Kovu

grazeaway wrote: »

Had savage rain here the other night grand an sunny for most of the day, gang in the field seem happy out anyway.

Lovely calf, what's he off?

grazeaway

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Lovely calf, what's he off?

Yeah he's a grand lad have another fella almost identical but bigger, good dtrong hardy lads out of the stock limo bull, mother is an AAX we got from a dairy herd

Kovu

grazeaway wrote: »

Yeah he's a grand lad have another fella almost identical but bigger, good dtrong hardy lads out of the stock limo bull, mother is an AAX we got from a dairy herd

I'd nearly swear there was blue in him. Do you tag all forward & back like that?
We have one replacement this year that has been nicknamed Odd-Ear because of that.

grazeaway

Kovu Murr wrote: »

I'd nearly swear there was blue in him. Do you tag all forward & back like that?
We have one replacement this year that has been nicknamed Odd-Ear because of that.

Didn't notice that must have had the tagger the wrong way round. They are the ordinary tags use the button tags for the BVD as I buy enough tags to cover a few years. Nope only have 1 cow with a bit if blue in her, he takes after his dad.

1st lot of calves from this bull and we are very happy with him, very easy calving (have only had to jack about 5 out of 40 and only one of them was a struggle) and then they fill out after a few weeks. Mother has plenty of milk too which helps.

Kovu

grazeaway wrote: »

Didn't notice that must have had the tagger the wrong way round. They are the ordinary tags use the button tags for the BVD as I buy enough tags to cover a few years. Nope only have 1 cow with a bit if blue in her, he takes after his dad.

1st lot of calves from this bull and we are very happy with him, very easy calving (have only had to jack about 5 out of 40 and only one of them was a struggle) and then they fill out after a few weeks. Mother has plenty of milk too which helps.

What's he off if you don't mind me asking? Have a PBLM in heat this eve.

grazeaway

Kovu Murr wrote: »

What's he off if you don't mind me asking? Have a PBLM in heat this eve.

The stock bull is a PB limo is out of brooklands boris if that's a help.

hugo29

Kovu Murr wrote: »

It's needed if it does come this way. We haven't gotten any thunder showers at all here.

We have got dam all rain too, just enough to drive growth but ground still bone dry,

Bloody sky was a strange colour last night anyone see it,

Kovu

grazeaway wrote: »

The stock bull is a PB limo is out of brooklands boris if that's a help.

That's what I meant to ask, sorry if it was a bit ambiguous!

hugo29 wrote: »

We have got dam all rain too, just enough to drive growth but ground still bone dry,

Bloody sky was a strange colour last night anyone see it,

I did, blood red and black at the same time. Wasn't it a full moon too?

towzer2010

I sprayed this field of strong rushes on the 17th of July. This pic is before



And this one is on Friday. Lovely shade of brown thankfully.




Fecking field was to rough to top beforehand and this pic shows how high the rushes were




Hopefully the plan is to drain it, plough and reseed.....but that may be put on the back burner as I'm going to be a daddy for the first time in September so all plans could be out the window.:D:D:D

hugo29

towzer2010 wrote: »

I sprayed this field of strong rushes on the 17th of July. This pic is before



And this one is on Friday. Lovely shade of brown thankfully.




Fecking field was to rough to top beforehand and this pic shows how high the rushes were




Hopefully the plan is to drain it, plough and reseed.....but that may be put on the back burner as I'm going to be a daddy for the first time in September so all plans could be out the window.:D:D:D

congrats, best day of yer life, get what ya can down now, cause after september ya will get damn all done for a while

Marooned75

Topped last week waiting to spray in a couple of weeks

just do it

Mine is longer than yours :D

Kovu

just do it wrote: »

Mine is longer than yours :D

Compensating for something are we JDI?;)