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Dedicated thread for info and experience of using organic manures (slurry, FYM, digestate, sewage, creamery sludge etc).
rusty has the best way to plough it inWhile there’s a saving to be made with organic manures, I really do like the accuracy, uniformity and evenness of bagged fertiliser.
Apply your manures to a cover crop and let it release slowly to the cash crop.While there’s a saving to be made with organic manures, I really do like the accuracy, uniformity and evenness of bagged fertiliser.
Yep, we’ve done that with slurry in recent years. Contractor has a trailing shoe which is good for uniformity.Apply your manures to a cover crop and let it release slowly to the cash crop.
Not my experience, but know what you getting at, we do need to work together.75% of our tillage land 90% of our grassland gets slurry and or FYM most years, I would not like to be trying to grow what we grow without it.
the last few weeks slurry has become an issue, had to spread the open day and again last week, luckily we had stubbles to spread on, don’t know how a fella with just grass would mange.
im not exactly sure how it would or should work buy mine should be thrown at the livestock sector to help move slurrry and fym to the tillage lads, win win for both as grazing blocks around the yard are on the verge of complete saturation from slurry around the country and a lot of tillage lads badly need to open their eyes and start working With the livestock lads too.
What is yours?Not my experience, but know what you getting at, we do need to work together.
Too much paper offers of slurry and FYM, a distinct lack of interest in working together, an ugly "them and us" within farming especially the disgusting Teagasc mantra of "pay your neighbours last" , but the main thing, I think, is that a couple of years ago tillage farmers needed livestock farmers more than the other way around, but as of this year it is the other way around.What is yours?
My open their eyes comment was in relation to the benefits of organic manures not in any other contextToo much paper offers of slurry and FYM, a distinct lack of interest in working together, an ugly "them and us" within farming especially the disgusting Teagasc mantra of "pay your neighbours last" , but the main thing, I think, is that a couple of years ago tillage farmers needed livestock farmers more than the other way around, but as of this year it is the other way around.
Livestock farmers taking the piss offering €8.00 for 4x4 bale of straw and using GMO cheap imported brown dirt to keep down the price of barley, has to end.
I don't believe tillage farmers need to "open their eyes", I think the last few tillage farmers left in the country have their eyes open, nor do I believe they need to "start working with livestock lads", but I do hope that they keep their eyes open and keep an open mind to working with their neighbours. I hope it isn't taken advantage of, and I will be using this opportunity to setup Straw for FYM deals, but find them hard to keep going, but I am building a very good relationship with a neighbouring dairy farm.
Sounds like a good cheap way to grow cropsI’m not a tillage farmer long enough to comment on how organic manures affect yields etc but I did do a good bit of research in my undergrad on organic use and the benefits do seem to be there. I grew spring wheat using different organic manures and the FYM and digestate grown wheat were brilliant altogether. This year I am hoping to apply 2000 gallons of pig slurry to the acre on top of winter barley, this recieved 3 tonne of FYM to the acre before ploughing. The spring barley ground that’s in stubble will receive 6 tonne of FYM to the acre before ploughing, ley ground will receive 3 tonne of FYM before ploughing also. Depending if I have time and conditions are right I might put 2000 gallons of either digestate or pig slurry onto winter wheat.