Early Spring Pasture Management
Having a blue moon is a rare sight that we were blessed with in January this year, but now as we creep slowly into spring, day length will lengthen, grass will start to take on a greener colour and temperatures will rise.
This is a good time to prepare pastures for the year ahead. Grass that was closed off early last autumn should be the most advanced on farms at this stage.
Pasture management:
- Apply nitrogen to kick start grass for the year ahead (E.g. 30-50 units/acre).
- Apply slurry at levels dictated by yours field requirements and cropping history.
Slurry Management:
- Ensure slurry is adequately agitated to facilitate rapid mixing and better spreading.
- Add water into slurry to speed up mixing time.
- Apply slurry where possible through a Slurry Applicator. This presents the slurry below the crop canopy. This therefore ensure the grass is not tainted, so rotation length is minimised. It is a true benefit that it harnesses more of the nitrogen from the slurry.
- Soil compaction this must be minimised. Factors affecting this include load weight, wheel width, wheel size, wheel lugs locations and depth, weather at time of application, wheel pressure etc.
- Flow control to apply precise quantities of slurry.
Abbey have specialist knowledge of Manure management, with 38 Tanker model sizes, ranging from single axle to tri-axle, standard to recess tankers, a board range of application technologies including DM Band Spreader, Trailing Shoe, Tri-App and many other muck spreading machines.
Abbey’s retrofittable DM Band Spreader
6000g Tri-Axle Slurry Tanker
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