Producer Brett Hazelden
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Hello All
Touch wood I’ve had no red legs (yet!!)
About 3-4 weeks after seeding (30 April) I put out the following mix
Per 500 litre tank load = covers 2-3ha with the Tow and Fert
Fish Hydrolysate 35 litres (brewed on farm)
JS mix 8kg (made on farm and ~8 months old)
Seaweed solid extract 850g (Soil Dynamics)
Fulvic Acid Powder 1.5kg (Soil Dynamics)
Potassium Humate Powder 1.5kg (Soil Dynamics)
Molasses 10kg (half a container)
trace elements 1kg (Campbells Trace-It Total)
MPK 3kg (Campbells Solu-MKP)
Eco-flo lime 750ml (micronized liquid lime)
Magnesium 1kg (Campbells Solu-Mag)
Potassium 1kg (Campbells Solu-K)
The tow and fert pic shows the grow stage when I sprayed to get both the soil and new growth (22 May)
Attached are some photos from last week (3 June) of the paddocks which now have our ewes in for lambing due to commence next week. The ruler is 15cm as a reference.
I should add our hill looks about half as good due to it being more sandy – so I’ve shown you the good areas 🙂
As a reference last year I only sprayed out a worm juice with molasses and seaweed about 3-4 weeks after seeding and only had a couple of spots of red legs appear (only a few square meters here and there)
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This is the Tow and Fert spraying out at Kate and Lloyds farm. Gets about a 8-10m width.
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I haven’t tried this but apparently a mix of milk and molasses diluted in water and sprayed out over the area might do the trick.
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Hey Kate.
We run out of hay and silage next week, so we will be onto the new pastures 5 weeks post seeding instead of my preferred 6 weeks. We also have a mix of pastures with some already at 2500kg/ha and looking good, but others only at around 1500kg/ha. Our various brassicas, radish, mustards, vetch, clover etc aren’t going to like the early bite but not much you can do given the season.
We did manage to spray out our JohsonSu mix last week too along with some of our farm made fish hydrolysate, fulvate/humate, Seaweed, trace elements, P, K, Mg. Hopefully that gets the soils firing up with bacteria and fungi, plus gives the plants a boost.
New lambs are due to start dropping in just over two weeks time. Things are going to be tight till Spring!
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Hello
WA Bait in O’Connor do a seconds mullies trap bait. They are a whole soft fish so better than heads in terms of quality. They are mullies that have gone on the floor and may have metal in the mix so not good to go through a mincer. That said they break down well in a barrel of hydrolysate. They are between $2-3 /kg for 20kg boxes. 08 9314 1755
I recon 200 litre drums are much easier to handle, remove liquid and clean compared to 1,000 lt pods.
good luck.
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I get the Fulvic and humic from Nutrien in Margs.
The trace elements and other nutrients I’ve been buying the Campbells brand from E E Muirs and Son Perth but the is a Manjimup store too.
https://www.campbellsfert.com.au/distribution/
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Geoff- I have stuck with using the 20kg drums to make it a bit easier. All I could suggest is a hand drum pump. There are different versions for fuel, oil, chemicals etc. but the viscosity will be the key driver
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Hey Kate
agree we should be looking to fence down some of the alley ways and we have recently got some kiwitech mobile electric fencing. So on the list to try out.
I was going through there today and I think there is enough in one of the paddocks for another month at least. I’ve got 7 paddocks though.
plus it’s growing more each day.
all we have done this year is to line and till it in, we sprayed out before seeding and then put on. Foliar spray post emergence with some added fungi, bacteria and microbes from growsafe
need to go dig some test pits to see what the roots are doing and how the soil is looking.
growsafe.com.au
Biological Agriculture Products - Grow Safe® Microbes
Grow Safe® Microbes are a balanced combination of cultured microorganisms that help mobilise minerals and nutrients for plant uptake.
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Hey Kate,
Here is this years mix plus some Barley in there too which I had left over from last year.
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Everything should dissolve with the exception of the JS mix. So it can go out through the the boom spray but you see a lot of people put it through a 100 micron filter from a dissolving tank.
part of the reason I bought the T&F as it uses a trash pump, that helps mix and dissolve with no filters and a 3mm spray orifice. Removes the majority of blockage problems
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At a guess I would go say 5 litres/ ha of each
It was in a John Kempf book that I don’t have on me currently