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Grass+ Section 13

Published 29 December 11

Managing Organic Swards

• Using clover and other legumes.
• Improving grazed grass utilisation.
• Optimising organic N use.
• Planning and budgeting sward use.
• Calculating actual forage production costs.

Objective: To minimise organic milk production costs by better production and utilisation of grazed grass and silage.

Challenge: Establish your current level of utilised grass DM production. Set a realistic improvement target for this year. Develop a plan to achieve 9 tonnes of utilised DM/ha within the next three years.

You are able to download the content of section 13 of the grass+ programme. The full programme is available via post from this link.