Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

It's called rising to the bait. You do have the power to stop it.

You can use the weather Apps to see the forecasts. Pretty accurate really for 3 to 5 days.

What kind of covers have you to deal with, better off letting them into light covers and keeping them in by night feed a bit of silage. High covers are only being walked into the ground in this weather at least the low covers will be cleared and some bit right for next spring and you might get a chance to somewhat properly clean out the higher covers if things ease up.

Same story in most places I’d imagine you’ve to pick your battles these days with the weather, you kind of need to hit lower covers during the day and hope they clean out fairly well once they know they’re getting silage they don’t tend to stay out long if weather conditions are bad.

Opportunity cost there Bass, this mytical thing......

So the grass is more palatable after spreading the yara nutri booster than when you spread nothing and you're wondering if it's a false economy by not spreading in every round as a result? I take it.

That's your micro nutrients in the nutri booster. Sulphur, sodium and selenium. You may really do full comprehensive soil test to see what's what but going off your observation it seems they're lacking. You are getting the growth because you are bringing those elements up. Theoretically if you had those elements up and supplied you wouldn't need the nitrogen. The soil would be balanced getting those and it would favour biology to supply the nitrogen to the plant.

In the back of my mind I've an idea to make up a fert mix with everything else bar nitrogen and phosphorus. Perfectly blended in proportion that could be spread in the closed period on grassland. I could mix it up in a concrete mixer bucket on the loader with weighcell and into the fert spreader.

Let us know what concoction you put together on this. You could do the environment a huge favour if you turn up something favourable by hoovering up any excess N that might have otherwise leached, as well as increased DM production.

It could be a very repeatable "fix" across all farms through conventional sprayers. If it utilised extra nitrogen, the impact on WQ would have to be enormous.

Not sure if it'd make it's own nitrogen or hoover up others around it. It could actually hoover up excess with the growing plant.

Jesus. I'll be rich.🤣

It'd be granular in the fert spreader.

There's taking the p1ss too though.

A quiet word behind the scenes and a stick shown behind the scenes can turn things around too.

I should know and probably others long enough here do as well.

Intuition goes a long way too.

Have a look at the other British and half Irish half British farming site and compare it to the tone here. If one poster says something is off you could dismiss that poster, if more than one says it you take notice.

Anyway ye know yourselves.