After you piled up the woodchip and manure, you could stick an old silage sheet over the top, it will trap the heat and accelerate the wood chip breaking down
The chip would be better on ground for ploughing can take a while to break down and could cause problems if you decided to make bales etc if the grass got strong
We’ve been using wood chip on a outdoor pad for nearly 20 years. When we are cleaning it out we mix it with dung from sheds bedded with straw. We push it all up in a big pile and spread in October. We spread it on grass fields not intended for silage. It spreads easily and it breaks down well into the soil. It does use up some N to start the process of breakdown but will return this back to the soil as it decomposes.
For the woodchip, you need to pile it up asap when cattle are let out and then Hot Compost it, turning the pile regularly. Within only a few weeks it will be reduced to compost and ready to spread. Best to put it on sandy/gravel soil to add carbon and retain moisture. The key to hot compost is to keep it turned regularly. If it is very hot and dry in summer then spray the pile with water from slurry tanker - it will help the material to break down quicker. You should use a thermometer to monitor and check what stage the compost pile is at - plenty of videos online to learn how to efficiently hot compost material.
I use would chip for bedding in a pack barn. By the time it’s mixed with the dung for a few months it rots down quite well. I spread it on all my fields no issues. I mow high for faster regrowth and don’t scrape the ground with the rake. Never had an issue with it in the silage/ hay
I am not educated about what to do with woodchip but I would spread it on stubbles after harvest and plough it in and maybe sow a winter crop weather permitting.
Yes, wood chips robs from you until it breaks down however, you can speed this process up and lose less "N" if you can get those "chips" down to more like a "sawdust" size, then you can spread it however you like, at that stage, it's a powder and won't effect the ground or your "N" levels. If you have to spread it, spread it next yr and spread it thinly or mix thinly with manure.
Throw it out back end of year. More time to break down in the soil and the winter Edwin’s ad. Rained can get at it. As for pears. As the old saying goes sow pears for your heirs.
Great Video Phil, the wood chip, don't spread it on pasture, the best option with all manure is to feed it into a methane digester, failing that spread it on to ground to be ploughed in the spring
Why noy draw it all out next spring and pile it in a corner of a tillage field and plough it in end of next year. You'll have space in the dung yard then, can always give the woodchip pile a turn or 2 during the year to compost it all down.
Well Phil. Leave it till dung till spring. At least if you leave it til then it will be where you need /put it . Ive seen your bottoms flood before and god only knows where the dung will end up. Let it compost. Turning if when fresh stuff is add will help compost the new stuff coz of thd fungal and microbile life already there. Great vid but can see whats going on/what your doing please. I know your a handsome dude but i aint got a clue what your at only fondling with a machine. Looking forward to see what tractor is the next project alone with a farm shop and to find out your old man had to fix on the telly handler. Take care Phil and better not leave out Liv ( the real worker) and thank you both for the content. ❤❤❤❤
No dont phil we tried spreading it last year on ground after grazing it was a disaster when we put cattle back on the grass a couple of weeks later they wouldnt eat it
I make my own compost for the garden in small heaps and it’ll get to 70c no problem. Higher temperatures with more grass clippings. That heat is good as breaking woodchip down is a slower process. Turning adds oxygen and increase bacterial activity.
Iv used it before. I left it in a pit for a year maybe more. It was piled up over a winter and not spread till the following back end. Their was still some chips on the ground the following spring. That be pushing a year and a half after it was under cattle. I didnt no that part about it sucking nitrogen out of ground. All i know for sure is. Dont put that shit anywhere you plan to make silage. Caus youl have it back in the yard again
If you need the space I’d say put the chip out, you can always top dress with slurry in the spring to make up the difference. I’d say put it on grazing land or as someone has said, on a field to plough just in case it’s not rotted away before silage… never found it in our hay
Hi Phil, Farmer P uses wood chips along with straw he could give you the answer you're looking for as he also has a tree service and knows a lot about tree bugs and plants.
Hi Phil, you are doing it right, turn the pile of muck and chips as much as you can and add a bag of Fertilizer high in nitrogen that should do the trick.
When you spread the dung from the milled peat bedding on the land, did it have any impact on the soil's PH? Just wondering as the peat should be acidic.
After you piled up the woodchip and manure, you could stick an old silage sheet over the top, it will trap the heat and accelerate the wood chip breaking down
Ask Farmer P he'll advise you on the woodchip
The chip would be better on ground for ploughing can take a while to break down and could cause problems if you decided to make bales etc if the grass got strong
We’ve been using wood chip on a outdoor pad for nearly 20 years. When we are cleaning it out we mix it with dung from sheds bedded with straw. We push it all up in a big pile and spread in October. We spread it on grass fields not intended for silage. It spreads easily and it breaks down well into the soil. It does use up some N to start the process of breakdown but will return this back to the soil as it decomposes.
That was a great job on the land farmer Phil today 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Good stuff
For the woodchip, you need to pile it up asap when cattle are let out and then Hot Compost it, turning the pile regularly. Within only a few weeks it will be reduced to compost and ready to spread. Best to put it on sandy/gravel soil to add carbon and retain moisture. The key to hot compost is to keep it turned regularly. If it is very hot and dry in summer then spray the pile with water from slurry tanker - it will help the material to break down quicker. You should use a thermometer to monitor and check what stage the compost pile is at - plenty of videos online to learn how to efficiently hot compost material.
I use would chip for bedding in a pack barn. By the time it’s mixed with the dung for a few months it rots down quite well. I spread it on all my fields no issues. I mow high for faster regrowth and don’t scrape the ground with the rake. Never had an issue with it in the silage/ hay
I am not educated about what to do with woodchip but I would spread it on stubbles after harvest and plough it in and maybe sow a winter crop weather permitting.
Yes, wood chips robs from you until it breaks down however, you can speed this process up and lose less "N" if you can get those "chips" down to more like a "sawdust" size, then you can spread it however you like, at that stage, it's a powder and won't effect the ground or your "N" levels. If you have to spread it, spread it next yr and spread it thinly or mix thinly with manure.
Throw it out back end of year. More time to break down in the soil and the winter Edwin’s ad. Rained can get at it. As for pears. As the old saying goes sow pears for your heirs.
Great video Phil. Enjoyed watching. 👍🏼👍🏼
Phil, woodchip onto ground for ploughing only - torture on grassland if you ever want to bale it for a few years after
I worked with alot of woodchip on farms, the best I found was to spread it on ground you want to reseed and plough it down.
Wood chip will break down quicker when you turn it. It's let's the air at it
Great Video Phil, the wood chip, don't spread it on pasture, the best option with all manure is to feed it into a methane digester, failing that spread it on to ground to be ploughed in the spring
Great Job Philip
Was told if spread on grass put out tonne of lime it uses alot of lime to breakdown
Woodchip spread end of the year. Sawdust is your best bet. Fast breakdown and good soakage (as long as it's dry)
Why noy draw it all out next spring and pile it in a corner of a tillage field and plough it in end of next year. You'll have space in the dung yard then, can always give the woodchip pile a turn or 2 during the year to compost it all down.
Some say wood chip can affect the Ph of the ground
Yeah wait till you plough for beans they will help replace the nitrogen
Well Phil. Leave it till dung till spring. At least if you leave it til then it will be where you need /put it . Ive seen your bottoms flood before and god only knows where the dung will end up. Let it compost. Turning if when fresh stuff is add will help compost the new stuff coz of thd fungal and microbile life already there. Great vid but can see whats going on/what your doing please. I know your a handsome dude but i aint got a clue what your at only fondling with a machine. Looking forward to see what tractor is the next project alone with a farm shop and to find out your old man had to fix on the telly handler. Take care Phil and better not leave out Liv ( the real worker) and thank you both for the content. ❤❤❤❤
No dont phil we tried spreading it last year on ground after grazing it was a disaster when we put cattle back on the grass a couple of weeks later they wouldnt eat it
Half september half follwing spring. And make a little room for winter. Then i guess you can see weather it need rotting more than it was.
Put it in a windrow somewhere that you can turn it all winter, or just put it in a big pile in a pig paddock and let the pigs turn it.
Wait as long as you can you'll get more benefit out of it.
I make my own compost for the garden in small heaps and it’ll get to 70c no problem. Higher temperatures with more grass clippings. That heat is good as breaking woodchip down is a slower process. Turning adds oxygen and increase bacterial activity.
Get it on after the beet for next year but leave it in the dungstead as long as you can
Such a wet summer very hard on everything and is just miserable
I would spread it on stubble and plough it in Phil
If it’s not composted its not available to plants. Bit like bark mulch
The wood chip will eat up nitrogen out of ground
I’d leave it another 1 year before touching the chip. Takes loads of N out the ground breaking the chip down.
Iv used it before. I left it in a pit for a year maybe more. It was piled up over a winter and not spread till the following back end. Their was still some chips on the ground the following spring. That be pushing a year and a half after it was under cattle. I didnt no that part about it sucking nitrogen out of ground. All i know for sure is. Dont put that shit anywhere you plan to make silage. Caus youl have it back in the yard again
If you need the space I’d say put the chip out, you can always top dress with slurry in the spring to make up the difference. I’d say put it on grazing land or as someone has said, on a field to plough just in case it’s not rotted away before silage… never found it in our hay
Hi Phil, Farmer P uses wood chips along with straw he could give you the answer you're looking for as he also has a tree service and knows a lot about tree bugs and plants.
Id leave it till the spring and if possible mix it up again in the winter with the digger. Would help to have it well composted
U get the goats down there they clean everything up for u.
Hi Phil, you are doing it right, turn the pile of muck and chips as much as you can and add a bag of Fertilizer high in nitrogen that should do the trick.
Put it out now when ground will let you 😅
Nice one Phil
Would in not be better on the stubble ground and ploughed in
Why don't you mow down your rushes instead of talking about them you certainly talk a good job
reseeding ground that floods is not a good job ........the reseeds do not last long ..........spend the money on fertiliser and lime instead
When you spread the dung from the milled peat bedding on the land, did it have any impact on the soil's PH? Just wondering as the peat should be acidic.
I would reach out to farmer P he uses wood chip 👀
Forgive me for being ignorant but could you not get goats on that ground to eat it all down. ?
Does it take the dung long to wash in
Phil the 99 could do with some TLC.
Great video. Would some clay off the shop & car park mixed in with the wood chip rot it down faster? Keep up the good work.
How much longer is the sunflower open for
@farmer p he uses woodchip
Seems to work out good for him
On the phil
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You must be barking mad to 😂😂😂
Can’t top fields now 😂 no shear bolts no ..?
It’s be more than shear bolts would end up breaking🙈
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DO NOT put wood chip down
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Can you put some dirt in the spreader and spread it out on some of them soft spots