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Grass+ Section 5

Published 13 December 11

Managing Your Grazing

• Preparing for grazing
• Deciding the length of the rotation
• Planning for critical times of sward availability
• Calculating the number of feeds from a field
• Calculating the actual forage supplied

Objective: To cater for rapid changes in sward quality and quantity with a flexible grazing approach.

Challenge: Walk and assess swards at least once a week. Achieve a 10% increase in days of consistent quality pasture supply this year, together with a 0.5 t/cow increase in utilised pasture DM intake.

You are able to download the content of section 5 of the grass+ programme. The full programme is available via post from this link.