Silage 2022

And slurry is variable too. Slurry from animals not fed meal is only glorified water.

That is still no reason to feed ration even if it was completely true. Yes slurry with ration in it is better than stuff without it. However it's expensive fertlizer with ration at 400/ton.

The quality of the grass will decides the quality of the slurry. If the grass has been fertlized and cut early the slurry will reflect this. If the grass was growing a.long time and cut in late June the slurry will reflect this as well

How will you claim this 1000 euro?

How do you prove how much ground you cut for silage?

Met Eireann should not forecast weather past 3 days....

Shysters

Agree completely on met eireann,this is going on now a good number of years,pessimistic & then the colour weather warnings for a drop of rain or a gust of wind,personally go by BBC ni & bbc news before 11 o'clock at night for a clearer picture, complete with no drama.

Joanna & siobhan have had a muddling influence with competition for cool Queens between them.

Do many people here use Silasave and if so how do you find it?

cut here 27/05/2022 - should make good enough stuff

just wondering how much daily weight gain would you get from SI x CH weanlings (Bulls and heifers) going into the shed in November at say 350 kg just on the end of May silage with no meal ?

would 0.5 kg be possible?

Maybe not 0.5 but you will be near enough to it. Just two proviso's, first that it's a PRG not an old grass sward and that you feed minerals and vitamins on top of the silage. I also feed salt and limestone flour.

Some lads are going to be cutting the 20th of April the way things are going. The real question is will it pay to feed ration at 400-450/ ton and will you see that return in them at the end of May after they are out 8-10 weeks as a two year old

Fixed up with my bale man. 14/ bale to cut, take, bale and wrap. All in the bales are coming in at under 35/ bale. Second cut will cost a bit more per because of smaller crop and use them of 18--6-12 to provide some of the nutrients along with protected urea.

Slurry was well watered down ( up to 40% water added). 2.5k( in reality 1500 gallons) gallons per acre. 1.5 bags of 18-6-12/acre. That will give about 42-43 units of N. Dribble bar used for slurry.

I will need 15 units of N with that so 1/3 of a bag of protected urea per acre(46%N protected urea).

By the way there is no mystical land charge in that.

I have over the year decided on a time frame whereby au get decent we quality and quantity. That means being will to cut in the middle of the Fourth week in May on so that at the latest you cut by early June.

Wouldn’t agree

tested slurry off dry cows fed haylage off a natural meadow

it was 6/5/27. Grand I thought

What forecast do you use

I find the most accurate way to get the forecast from the met Éireann app is to look at the predicted rainfall on the map. Their “detailed forecast” could be predicting no rain at all for your area but when you look at the upcoming rainfall on the map you could see that there is rain predicted to be falling all around you so you’d know you’re likely to her some then.

Bur in saying that they’ve been very badly wrong a lot of the time this year.

Current situation is very hard to forecast exactly. There has been a number of small low pressure in a trough. Trying to pin down the exact position is tricky as a move of 20miles could out you in the dry or a downpour.

Looking at the radar is the key for a 3-4 HR window.