Last cutting for the year?

samn40 · Oct 8, 2013

I mowed 31 acres of 3rd cut grass today. This grass was only fertilised for the first cut at about a rate of 220 pounds of 27/6/6 (N/P/K) per acre. It got around 2000gallons per acre of cattle slurry(liquid manure) to help the second cut on and it was cut on 8th August. Another 2000 galls/acre of slurry was applied immediately to grow this cut. We have had an excellent growing season as you can see from the pics, but the last dry month took it's toll on the gravelly parts of the fields and under the ash trees. Overall I am well pleased and just hope we get the few more days of good weather the guessers are predicting so I can get it all wrapped up!
The mountains in the distance are the Mourne Mountains in Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
Sam

DeltaRed · Oct 8, 2013

I still have 30 acres to cut here in western Colorado.Getting hard to dry because of wet dewey mornings and cooler weather.We can only "hay" for 5-6 hrs a day now.Rain is forecast for Thursday.....

larry@stinescorner · Oct 8, 2013

nice looking hay,,, what brand of tractor is that? (lol)

ShadetreeRet · Oct 9, 2013

Good looking field of hay! I really like the shot of the mountains. Reminds me of the song, "On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever," etc, etc.

Larry NEIL · Oct 9, 2013

Sam that "grass hay looks great from here!

Bret4207 · Oct 9, 2013

Nice looking stuff. Still a lot of folks trying to get some hay in here. Darn wet weather really put the kibosh to normal operations. OTOH, our pastures have been great. I should be able to graze until snowfall and still leave adequate aftermath.

showcrop · Oct 9, 2013

Wow! 60 lbs. of nitrogen along with two slurry applications. No wonder you have a lot of grass. My neighbors used to criticize me for putting on 35 lbs.

dcarp · Oct 9, 2013

Great looking hay.
"Last dry month took it"s toll" Wow I would like a dry month like that. From the looks of the tracks on the ground it"s not so dry. Here in SE Texas if I drove across a hay field it wouldn"t even show a track. Drier than a toasted Ritz cracker here. On a normal year I would get 3 cuttings, this year I was lucky to get 1 and it was 1/2 normal yield.

samn40 · Oct 9, 2013

The ground is rock hard! The 'tracks' you see is where the skids and wheels are bending down the grass stubble.
Sam

samn40 · Oct 9, 2013

Maybe we work out our units of N.P.K different to you? Most
farmers here would put on at least 3-4 bags per acre of fertiliser
per cut, I only used 2 bags ( we still measure our fertilisers in
bags.....1 bag =112 lbs) Our cows graze on a 21 day rotational
system. After each grazing a bag of fertilisers per acre is sown.
Sam

Bret4207 · Oct 9, 2013

Whoa. I don't know anyone that fertilizes like that around here. The BTOs will spread liquid manure but that's about it. Some guys will do a little in the spring, but it sounds liek that's whole different world over there.

showcrop · Oct 9, 2013

(quoted from post at 17:04:17 10/09/13) Maybe we work out our units of N.P.K different to you? Most
farmers here would put on at least 3-4 bags per acre of fertiliser
per cut, I only used 2 bags ( we still measure our fertilisers in
bags.....1 bag =112 lbs) Our cows graze on a 21 day rotational
system. After each grazing a bag of fertilisers per acre is sown.
Sam

Well the way I figure it it is 26% of 224lbs. is 60lbs. or do you figure it different there?

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