It’s all bales I make. Do you feed to beef or dairy. I was thinking of using in for dairy cows.We make quite a bit of clover silage. If it’s pure clover with absolutely no grass or cereals (etc) it can be difficult to conserve. For crops like that we bale it and give it 32 wraps of plastic.
If it’s got something like grass or cereals in the cut we pit it because there’ll be enough sugars in them to conserve in the pit.
We feed it to everything. Cheap source of protein. It should be about 20-25% protein.It’s all bales I make. Do you feed to beef or dairy. I was thinking of using in for dairy cows.
How many cuts you get off it. Cut with conventional mower conditioner??
If it isn’t as black as the ace of spades it doesn’t have the protein.Jimmy MULHALL in coolanowle organic farm feeds it to milking cows . The face of the pit turns black within a few hours you would swear it had been left open for months.
http://www.coolanowle.com/
What fertiliser used you give iti had a grass/red clover ley in and had 3 cuts off it
1st cut would be 12/14 ton fresh weight to the acre
2nd 10/12t
3rd 10t
19% protein without trying
dose of slurry in feb, about 3k gallons to the acre and some 0/20/30 a bit laterWhat fertiliser used you give it
That’s serious production for very little fertdose of slurry in feb, about 3k gallons to the acre and some 0/20/30 a bit later
did once try 40 units of N in the spring but didnt see a lot of diference
it grew like stink for 4 years then really ran out of steam in the 5th
i had a grass/red clover ley in and had 3 cuts off it
1st cut would be 12/14 ton fresh weight to the acre
2nd 10/12t
3rd 10t
19% protein without trying
dose of slurry in feb, about 3k gallons to the acre and some 0/20/30 a bit later
did once try 40 units of N in the spring but didnt see a lot of diference
it grew like stink for 4 years then really ran out of steam in the 5th
i think it was this mix or its equivalent a few yeas agothat’s some going for very little imput. Might strongly consider it next spring. Or when is best to sow it. Was that mixed with grass?
i had a grass/red clover ley in and had 3 cuts off it
1st cut would be 12/14 ton fresh weight to the acre
2nd 10/12t
3rd 10t
19% protein without trying
Sheeps went on it a bit in the winterDid you graze it at all then? My understanding is that if it is let go too far It's not much use either, needs to be cut at the optimal time, how did you find it if cutting was delayed or is a dry land crop?