Whole crop is hard on ground and takes all the nutrients.What's your reckoning on it gone?
Slurry too watery?
Is it any worse than combining and selling the straw off the farm? I suppose you do get left with the chaff behind a combine.Whole crop is hard on ground and takes all the nutrients.
As the straw and grain ripens, straw mainly, it returns a lot of very available P&K and other nutrients to the ground. Most of this is removed when whole cropping.Is it any worse than combining and selling the straw off the farm? I suppose you do get left with the chaff behind a combine.
I give an extra 1000 gal of slurry to anything planted in ground that was wholecropped vs combinedAs the straw and grain ripens, straw mainly, it returns a lot of very available P&K and other nutrients to the ground. Most of this is removed when whole cropping.
Rough enough, but it hasn't been ploughed for a few years so is standing up to it fairly well. The fact that the crop is poor is helping as they are moving across quickly .How's grazing going given the weather gone?
Did you bale the triticale? If so, how did the bales stand up to vermin?I do the following.
2018 Winter wheat. Then direct sowed forage triticale in September 2018 which I mowed this year on the 4/5/19. Then straight back in with maize which I cut in late October last.
The triticale did about 8t/acre at 30%DM 11.5%protein and 76DMD.
The maize did 20t at 32Dry matter and 32starch.
What variety of maize had you? That’s a massive yield. Plastic I presume?I do the following.
2018 Winter wheat. Then direct sowed forage triticale in September 2018 which I mowed this year on the 4/5/19. Then straight back in with maize which I cut in late October last.
The triticale did about 8t/acre at 30%DM 11.5%protein and 76DMD.
The maize did 20t at 32Dry matter and 32starch.
And that was a weighed result. However I normally only average 18t weighed off maize per acreWhat variety of maize had you? That’s a massive yield. Plastic I presume?
Wouldn't worry about clean out this year, you have them well managed there by the sounds of it and ground conditions not too bad. What's the plan for the field next?View attachment 73020 View attachment 73021 View attachment 73022 View attachment 73023
it ain’t simple this year. Weanlings heifers, they get silage and meal in a yard at the far end of of the field on concrete and a straw bed shed that they can wonder in and out of, that’s the main saviour and wasn’t part of the plan but the weather is tough.giving them an acre of so every few days so not to wreck the place, clean out is average enough but there usually shed is out of action as we are at a building job in the home yard so they had to stay out. They are thriving very well tho.
Spring barley next, winter barley last year.Wouldn't worry about clean out this year, you have them well managed there by the sounds of it and ground conditions not too bad. What's the plan for the field next?
Spring barley next, winter barley last year.
It’s on a concrete slab we usually use for beet or dung, but I’ve seen a few hardcore lads with them in fields all winter, it’s criminal the state of some places.They are behind him.
We were only saying earlier how last year was a dream compared to this, it's dear feed if your damaging ground, but you look to be avoiding anything too serious, I'd. Much rather see 50% left behind and plough it down than make muck, it's too hard on cattle and ground.View attachment 73020 View attachment 73021 View attachment 73022 View attachment 73023
it ain’t simple this year. Weanlings heifers, they get silage and meal in a yard at the far end of of the field on concrete and a straw bed shed that they can wonder in and out of, that’s the main saviour and wasn’t part of the plan but the weather is tough.giving them an acre of so every few days so not to wreck the place, clean out is average enough but there usually shed is out of action as we are at a building job in the home yard so they had to stay out. They are thriving very well tho.
we are only saying earlier how last year was a dream compared to this, it's dear feed if your damaging ground, but you look to be avoiding anything too serious, I'd. Much rather see 50% left behind and plough it down than make muck, it's too hard on cattle and ground.