Silage Situation

[WestClare]

How are ye all for stuff? time for the weather and places to really start dryin up or things are goin to get bad.!

 

[Tullyvernon]

Just over half way through!! :'(

 

[James]

plenty here :001_smile:

 

[Jay Dee]

plenty here :001_smile:

Same.

 

[nashmach]

Should have enough here as well.

Either way grass isn't too plentiful..

 

[Chewdles]

Should just about scrape out.

 

[kverneland es 80]

over half way through,going to be very tight:whistling:nothing calved yet,just as well as ground too wet for grazing

 

[headcase]

got about 4-5 weeks of 2012 good silage left
got about 4 weeks of 2011 and 2010 at the back(might be 5hite now)got some barley here incase its crap
also got about 120 bales of silage/haylege and 50 of hay so should be ok

 

[WestClare]

mmm same as back our way. lads gettn very tight. ground still saturated. hope it drys more!

 

[Martin A]

Should be ok here. All stock are being given extra meal to help stretch out whats left, in case its a late spring.

 

[jpt]

Might scrape another month,slurry up through the slats this evening
Too little of one and too much of the other

 

[4255]

might have to buy a wee bit , hope to gey all the cattle away and out 25th of march ,

 

[tinman]

a few round here have run out.
im ok for what i need, but cattle are hungry these days.
got a few calls of late to see if i had any for sale.

 

[robbie c]

paddys day
i hope

 

[darrendee09]

2/3's of the way through, 'should' be ok hopefully

 

[Ozzy Scott]

15 days forage left, then the fun and games start

 

[slurryboy]

got about 4-5 weeks of 2012 good silage left
got about 4 weeks of 2011 and 2010 at the back(might be 5hite now)got some barley here incase its crap
also got about 120 bales of silage/haylege and 50 of hay so should be ok

Shouldn't be anything wrong with it if it went in ok just be a little waste on the face. Have some here from pre foot n mouth. Going to have enough first cut to last through till mid may only feed that to milkers. Dry cows and heifers on second cut have used almost 3 bays of a 60x90 pit, will switch milkers onto it after 1st cut runs out or shed gets refilled. Cows fed all year possibly staying in all year this time but no desicion set in stone yet. Will be in at nights whatever. Could quite easily end up selling some silage

 

[scottie]

Done another budget up yesterday, have enough till the last day of Feburary if I keep going at the current rate, would hope to extend that to Paddies day so have introduced straw and will buy in a bit more meal next week.

 

[Larry David]

Praying for a favorable spring.

 

[4255]

Praying for a favorable spring.

i will start praying with you too larry

 

[headcase]

Praying for a favorable spring.

amen to that

 

[nashmach]

amen to that

I think Larry and co will have to go to Lourdes, Knock and Medugorje in one week, the way it is looking at present.....

From the grass measurers on here, I'd like to know if there was any growth at all during the winter as there doesn't seem to have been

 

[headcase]

I think Larry and co will have to go to Lourdes, Knock and Medugorje in one week, the way it is looking at present.....

From the grass measurers on here, I'd like to know if there was any growth at all during the winter as there doesn't seem to have been

tiz growing herealbeit slowly
we'll have a frost tonight,first 1 of this supposed cold spell,about the 3rd this winter

 

[kverneland es 80]

growing here too, looking very well tbh only very wet, soil temp last friday was 6 deg

 

[bull_market]

How are ye all for stuff? time for the weather and places to really start dryin up or things are goin to get bad.!

serious shortage , the most obvious thing is the awfull quality , i bought stuff of four different farmers so far and it ranged from pure junk to junk to below average to very average at best