OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM !! | NEW FARM UPDATE
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- In todays video we are taking a look around the new 120 acre farm we leased 4months ago. We take a look at some of the improvements and updat you on what we've done so far and discuss what our future plans are. We talk about our biggest problem on the farm
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Get rid of that Bull you described as putting the fear in you.
Safety is a long way down the priority list in this set up I think.
Haha 😛 these boys like to Live on the edge
Out winter the cattle, get the digger in to pluck the big stones. Bring in the plough/ harrow and get it reseeded. Douse in muck and lime
Nobody knows your ground like you do,and it sounds like to me your doing a grand job. Grow what you can and make most of what you've got.
The ground with all the butter cups is acidic so that need a good dose of lime , as for the dead old grass I would run a set of chain harrows tho it that will rip the dead stuff up then run a topper or mower over it to mulch it
What they don't tell you is that lime softens the ground a lot. Need to be careful - especially on that type of soil.
Plow the ground start again with fresh seed and yer man above said get rid of that bad bull Good luck Phil and to father Phil happy fathers day
The incessant rain since last July has washed out the Potassium and Calcium. The buttercups are pulling those nutrients back up with their tap roots
Not sure if you’ve done it or mentioned it but you should soil test each field and put a nutrient management plan in place
Phil, you have the patience of a saint to take the time to reply to some of these " comments" . When they are paying the bills, they can go to town and do what they like. God bless the arm chair farmers😂😂😂
Animals won't eat buttercups fresh, it's poisonous and blisters their mouth, but if they are wilted they will eat them. Would be worth mowing off before the cattle finish grazing. I do the same with rushes when they have a week of grazing left on a feild I go in with the topper. They seem to clean it up a bit. If the rushes are young and green the cattle will eat the tops off.
Chalk work great against rushes,and is good for fertile soil,greatings from the Netherlands
Reseed one paddock at a time ...tank slurry or dung &lime
Do it once &do it right ! U might get a few done through out the year at different times ..
Hi Phil I would re seed as you plan on doing, probably needs lime on a lot of the ground as buttercup's like acidic ground, get some soil tests done which don't cost much and then you know what your dealing with. Good luck
Great video Phil. Get rid of that bull. Enjoyed watching. 👍🏼👍🏼
Sorry im not the best at language😅
but In Denmark we have good experience with seeding new clover/gras in the middle of August.
Spray it out with round up and seed .
Great litter tour and update of the place!!! How’s Father Phil getting on with his new sprayer?? Ain’t seen much of him other than the break down 😊
Lots of buttercups is often a sign of acidic soils, good dose of lime might be needed 😊
Best of luck with everything ahead on the farm fair play to ya 👍👍👍
When you are finished with your forage crop plough for the new grass if the land is plough able rather than the disc. The reason for the plough is you need to bury all the old grass seeds otherwise they will smother your new Rhygrass inside 2 years because you said the land had been not farmed intensely in recent years
Farmer Phil you look like you could do with a shearing!
I've outwintered cattle, and that's on dry sandy land. Cattle do far better inside on good feed than outside. So my opinion would be to use some of your surplus bales of silage yourself and get the cattle off and reseed it properly. Get it sprayed off and ploughed, then 2 tons of lime per acre, then worked and sown. You can't beat the plough to freshen the field up.
You may think you're losing out on fodder sold, but next year will make up for it because you'll have more than double the grass off it.
As for the other land, which is softer, then I'd spray it off, then mow and bale it, get the field cleaned up. Then, I'd be tempted to run a flat lifter/ subsoiler through if possible and probably apply 1 ton of lime per acre, then just direct drill/ slot seed it. Probably twice over running at a different angle the second time.
Ploughing/mowing isn’t an option with the boulders scattered across the fields. Discing is the only option there
@@FARMERPHIL3690 Hi Phil where is your track digger ye got out of the bog a few yrs ago? It would be great for removing any boulders if ye still have it???
@FARMERPHIL3690 I didn't realise it was that bad for stones. Well, possibly your idea of out wintering cattle on it might be the best way of getting it chewed up and fit to sow grass in. It was just the plough is the best way to get air into the soil and really sets it off well. There was a farm I helped reclaim very stoney rough grazing land into some decent mowable silage land now. It was a lot of work but its very usable land now. Also used to sow barley for a customer, in a field for a few year which had a acre patch where it was about 2-3 inch in topsoil over bed rock. It was ploughed and I just hovered the combi drill. Anything is possible if you take your time. Your idea would be the quickest way of improving it though.
Only thing to get rid of rushes is the plough, Crop rotation and plenty of proper lime. Not you bag lime you spread with the fert spreader.
Buttercups means lime when I put lime on unbelievable the next year.
Lime after grazing if low pH, lots of slurry will knock back rushes as well.
Just farming the land and having cattle there the way you are, will improve the land, if you give it 2 years it will compleatly transform the land.
Roundup the field and then reseed with multi species sward. Start in mid August.
Lime it all,plough the field an reseed.u think there's an sat that could scan an pin point stones at top off ground nowadays
Looks very variable block of ground you’re dealing with. Good, stoney and peat . Get the soil samples back and deal with each field on an individual base. Plough what you can. Probably disc the stoney ground and sow the kale and out winter those paddocks and then disc , reseed and roll them in spring after cattle have chewed them up a bit.
Bit at time and lime.👍
Chain Harrow twice in different directions those fields with the white grass and there will be no more problems with it
Then reseed next year
Hi Phil, it looks like you got things going well, the land hasn't been worked for some time but I am sure you will get it back in shape.
weed wiping might be a good option on the rushes
Do smaller batches of ground then wont leave you tight on grass
I would reseed some of it now, and then some again in the spring. It will work out better that way in the long run.....
I think I would probably go with the kale/ rape idea on the basis that it will save you having to plough and realistically how else would you get to reseed it, but you may get out lime and maybe more lime and the boss is right about the last field, disc the hell out of it, he knows as well as I do that ground will cut up fairly well because it’s peaty and it will warm up quickly once the place is black, I would be half inclined to say spray it and give it a week to 10 days mulch it or mow it and the first chance you get start discing a shake of lime a couple of bags of 10 10 20 with sulphur and a bag and a bit of seeds. You will have a grand bit of fresh seeds for the worst of the calves come September and it will crown them coming up to shed time. You will be amazed at how much stock that field will feed next year just choose the seeds carefully there is a lot of rubbish being sold out there at the moment, amazing how some companies think that if they put one part a good seed the rest of the bag doesn’t matter!
Farmer Phil u have bitten off more than u can chew u need to cut the rushes spray the field plough it and set new grass
Phil it's needs to soil sampled probably low in lime and then reseed
Phil you need to soil sample the whole 120
Acres before you spend any money - the science and the facts are the way go and make some money and use any money you spend wisely.
We’re waiting on the soil sampling program to sample the soil for us
Phil, don’t bother waiting for that. Soul sampling is cheap, €16 per sample or something, post it to Southern scientific and you have results in a week.
Would your tractor with the floatation tyres not be a shout for topping that off?
At some point in time would you buy it so what your putting in will benefit you
Hope you check yourself for ticks after line in them rushes.
If u get the 35 acres reseeded ur going to have a lot of surplus grass for bales or pit silage
Rushes are an absolute plague on feeding ground. Not sure what your rental agreement is but if possible I'd say spray them, mulch them, plough, get the stone picker out and reseed any of the problem areas. Then slurry as much as you can come in spring.
The outwintering cattle idea could be a good job for getting your use out of the ground. I was thinking depending on how well fenced it is, would the goats be any benefit? Surely they could be able to clean it tight to the ground after the cattle then allow you to restitch in new grass seed.
As you said the problem with rented ground is you don't want to spend loads of money as you only get the ground for so long.
Lime, FYM and drainage is all that is needed.
Fenced for cattle but not for goats😂
Probably be safer to reeseed in augest and september it will have a head start for next year grazing
Wishing your dad a happy father's day!
2-3 acres are to small, that size becomes to inefficient for spreading spraying, mowing, if you have electrified the boundary fences make your paddocks 5-6 acres and you can put up a temporary break fences to make them smaller if required, but you can open them up for tractor work.
Reseeding will easily pay for itself over 2 to 3 years...would do it sooner rather than later
Not sure the length of lease ,hopefully 10 years min and if 10 years ,totally agree ,the initial cost would be big to start off with but it's growing proper grass, the longer you leave it the more you are losing
Starved for lime that land
It’s like most of Ireland
Love it. Feel like I should take 2 weeks off and come and give you a hand. 😅
Well come ji
It’s looking much better mate 👏👏 good job getting the fencing and water sorted. I’d spread 100kg urea on the areas with the dry old shit still on it, needs nitrogen to break that down. Plan looks solid 👍
Paddocks are a great job easier management good idea
What you do with the bales of rushes and what you spray with then?
Use them as bedding and mcpa herbicide
They won't get very fat on bull rushes & buttercups Phil. 😂.
Lots of lime needed both buttercups and rushes are indicators of low ph
How many volts is your fencer putting out? Have you got 3 or 4 earth bars driven in the ground?
What will you do with the rush’s when you bale them?
Use them as bedding
Not going to break records with spring barley
yes spray it of and put kale in
keep mowing the rushes
Definitely Disc Harrow
Good video, Phil. It's really interesting to see how you're getting on. Really liked the David Bellamy impression 😂. Well done, Phil 👍
why don't you top off the butter cups to let the grass come in better
The amount of tabletop boulders and stones in those fields has the fear in me of looking into the fields with a topper
That bull has to go Phil !!
How old is the cross bull? Friesian I presume.
18 months
Great video… very interesting review. I think the out wintering idea is worth the risk of a dry spring… keep up the good work.
How would a weed leker behind the gater go for the rushes
It’d work yes
Put a lick bucket in the rushes it will get rid off them
Could you not put a bigger batch of cattle in the field instead of breaking it up into little gardens and spending money on fencing materials. Speak to your land lord to come to some arrangement for getting lime spread on the farm some soil testing would help. Look into drilling crops that help the soil.
You want to get some lime on that ground get your ph right and you're half way there then you're fertiliser will work and your seeds that ground looks shagged out you'll only be throwing money away if you don't
Get soil samples tested for pH, K & P, then you will know which nutrients and how much lime is required to reseed sucessfully.
Good stuff
Hi farmer Phil that was a great video of your fresion bullock's and your fresion bull's to 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Get rid of the nasty bull too
Try Father Phils idea put the discs on but don't make them too savage just cut grooves then put on your grass seed and roll it straight away that might work
Road trip for the bull one way
Looks like you’re ready for shearing 😂😂😂.
If ground is rented - talk to owner about splitting cost of reseeding. remember it is to their benefit to.
It’s a Long term lease so won’t be as attractive for the land lord
Then he has no bother but to re seed it . Should have taken that into account when doing the deal .
@@ghostrider7688 I agree, I’m sure the condition of the grass and land itself was taken into consideration when agreeing a price…. Goes without saying
pay someone to cut the rushes
Pure madness setting up 30 odd paddocks for cattle imo. Bringing work on yourself continuously moving, spreading fertiliser, topping. No need for it i think. Good idea with the rape out wintering cattle then reseeding. Will make a job of those fields
Lick the rushes and top after 2-3 after
Tractor run b great🤠
Time for a haircut Phil you look to warm m8
don't do anything until September
No grass phil. Did you ever hear of fertiliser
Fert and slurry have been applied. Hard to feed something that isn’t in abundance there
Long and the short of it yeah can't handle the work. Load
As sprays decrease
Price increase
#ShrinkFlation 😠 😡
Squeeze the bull that puts the fear in you.
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