Silage 2022

That’s why the dribble at is the poor mans trailing show IMO

Gonna see how tomorrow's rain reacts with it. I've a feeling rain is going to have no effect on it at this stage. Will hit with a tine harrow if no improvement by mid week.

I suppose the s**t is only fermented grass which is what silage is too, Any bugs would have 'passed' in the weathering.

Has anyone purchased bale wrap yet? What’s prices looking like? Doesn’t seem to be any for sale online in the usual outlets?

107 in or around, in all places around here.

I was told €120 today, silotite.

Not get much better than that. Gather up them rolls before the 120 euro rolls come on the market.

I see now there's talk of €100/ha (up to 10ha) for cutting silage. What's the logic there? Is it that people are grazing the silage ground because they cut back on fert or what? There's mixed messages here galore. On one hand there's an incentive to turn grass into tillage, while on the other it's to grow grass

That’s it in a nutshell. I think farming is going to be in a very bad place next winter.

Who’s going to buy stores and put them into a shed to fatten with ration price expected to be €450-€500?

Who’s going to buy all the weanlings when lads realise they have half the silage they normally have after cutting back on fertiliser and ration again at €450 plus to supplement the silage?

Factory prices will need to be €6 per kg to keep the money in the system and passed along the line. It’s hard to see that happening though.

Why would there be a fodder crisis if your stocked at the appropriate level?? A far bigger factor for fodder quantity and quality will be the weather over the next few months, same as any other year. Also folk will already have ground closed off for silage or hay, pretty much same as any other year and will get this grant money on those acres whether the acres get fert or not(especially if your making red clover silage). Sensible use of slurry will also pay off more in this scenario

I have ground taking for silage, one cut only, I spread the fertilizer and slurry, will I qualify for this €100 an hectare on this ground?

It makes sense this year to encourage extra forage being saved, even just to encourage people to maintain levels.

Confidence is on the floor.

It might not take much to see a rout.

I'm going to make extra silage this year, build up a good bank of grass in the fall, lightly stocked at the moment and will pick up value if I can for next year. It won't take much to knock my confidence on that though.

There are some Paddocks ready for June that are serious quantity over quality. I'm not risking a late spring next year. At least half was skinned by the sheep and looks like it will be top notch. They'll eat well the first half anyway.

Being appropriately stocked with the correct amount of fodder is only a bad Spring away from being out of fodder and in trouble.

The signs are all here and its explained in my post you quoted. Same thing that has happened every other fodder crisis, only this time we are looking at crazy high meal bills and collapse in Autumn weanling sales. If we have an early housing and/or late turnout next Spring then its going to be a disaster.

The whole point of this scheme is to get fertiliser out on silage fields.

Full details to be announced this evening. The amount might be raised since we are looking at €30+ for a bale this year but no budget set. There's also rumblings its beef and sheep only.