Grazing 2022

The rain from Sept 1 came 10 days too late for substantial recovery of grass - even with nitrogen. Just not enough temp or day length for grass growth. About half my place was very tightly grazed.

From my understanding progressive farmers are the ones with the well kept land and top of the range machinery. The type of that that would have slurry out in the evening the same day the baler is in there. The same lads rely heavily on inputs though, and going Bass' post above, that guy is no different.

Did you get a contractor to do it, what is being charged for a load

These are the guys Teagasc talk about in the top ten % of producers. They have expanded ferociously over the last five year. They have outsourced heifer rearing, sell calves as early as possible and everything is being done to push production to the max.

There is no longterm feasibility look at IMO. Neither is there cost benefit analysis. Most of these farm are over invested and any twitch in the system can cost them ten of thousands.

I worked one time under this manager who was very precise and progressive. But when he f@@kup it was on a massive scale not any ordinary mistake

Ground getting chopped up around us. Will need to house some shortly. Wondering is it too warm to house

Grass ahead of youngstock alright if weather holds. Calves fine incalf heifers prob too heavy if weather doesn't improve in the next week. Could keep cows out till mid Nov by day again if things slow down rain wise if not it will be nov 1st

Most other years you'd fly it at a similar stocking rate but this year has been a bitch, we usually put in the ewes on 1st dec, this year we'll struggle to keep them out until the rams come out on 12th Nov. We ordered cobs for them yesterday to stretch the grass.

Lambs are allgone here now..... but for that we'd be feeding them too

Same here, lots of grass but ground is getting softer.

Got this year's calves in now they were doing nothing outside. Put in a few heifers too, so just the cows to bring in when there is a break in the weather to get them in dry.

Would have liked to keep them out longer but they are tramping the ground and skittering.