Producer Will McGirr
Producer-
Will McGirr posted an update in the group
a week agoGrazing Management a week agoSweet Vernal Grass
I have several paddocks that are dominated by this – any advice I was there on how to vastly reduce it?
I’m working on my soil, amendments and liming every year.
any particular amendment I need to increase?
in the autumn, should I till it and then seed? Or direct drill into it?
3 Comments-
Hi Will,
liming won’t get rid of it, however it will help with the establishment of improved species like clover and ryegrass. I would suggest improving one paddock at a time. A soil test will be helpful in identifying if phosphorus is available. (Colwell P test in conjunction with PBI). If it is low you will improve your chances of success by…
- View 2 replies
-
-
Will McGirr posted an update in the group
2 months agoGrazing Management 2 months agoPretty nube question here – what kind of grass is this? I have a lot of it & stock not eating it at this stage.
View more comments-
sweet vernal grass. Not a highly productive or palatable grass. Common where there is low soil fertility- particularly low phosphorus!
-
That’s me alright – low phosphorous and low potassium. Thanks for that Eric
- View more comments
-
-
Will McGirr posted an update in the group
4 months agoPlant Nutrition 4 months agoWhen to start putting on Foliar sprays
I haven’t heard this discussed very much – what time of year to begin applying Compost tea brews etc. at the moment it’s very wet and in a lot of our paddocks you couldn’t take anything heavier than a quad on them as they are so waterlogged. So it’s seems that winter is mostly out? So is it then spring…
-
Early in the season (autumn) is good too Will, especially with the biologicals and a bit of trace mineral support, sets the plant up for life.
-
-
Reply to Grazing before leaving for hay
Thanks Mark – this is what I was leaning towards. So will give a good grace
-
Grazing before leaving for hay
We have fairly poor soils and growth of an oats and pasture mix that was sown in autumn, is fairly patchy right now – some areas are great others look bad. In a paddock we want to cut hay in, is it a good practice to give it one light graze over with cattle and then leave it till hay time? Or just keep the gate locked until hay cutting time?
-
Is the key then to get the other grass/legume species to be the most dominant & to out compete the Guilford grass?
-
Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite
Thanks Kate – that’s helpful
-
Thanks Eric – I’ll look into it
-
Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite
Ok – will put some on today 🙂 thanks
-
I have thick mats of it on some paddocks & it’s clearly choking out/retarding the growth of what has been sown in. How to deal with it without herbicide?
in one paddock in year one – we put free range pigs across it and that cleared some patches.
year 2 I tilled the whole paddock with an offset disc & sowed into that.
year 3 it’s back again -…
- Load More
