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24 June 2022
Jill Bathgate’s herd is transitioning into a grazing herd, while she is steadily increasing her grazing knowledge and gaining confidence in the value of grazed grass.
10 June 2022
If you want to try new ways to establish green protein forages and are able to offer up to 0.5ha during the 2022 growing season then we would like to hear from you.
7 March 2025
Fast clamp filling is efficient – it no longer takes three weeks to fill a clamp with a herd’s winter feed.
22 May 2024
South African Apie Pieterse manages a split-block herd in Nottinghamshire where he has not only learned rotational grazing from scratch, but also honed his skills on heavy land in a dry area.
29 April 2022
Self-feeding silage saves labour, power and machinery costs while delivering a simple, sustainable way to get forage into cows by just moving an electric wire once a day.
29 April 2022
Plan ahead this spring and think about silage requirements for next winter.
14 April 2022
Blanket spreading on the grazing platform risks cows eating very high levels of nitrates, warns grazing consultant Andre van Barneveld. Follow cows with the fertiliser spreader to avoid luxury uptake of nitrogen in the grass plant being grazed.
14 April 2022
With the rising cost of farm inputs, some farmers are considering longer-term changes to their farm systems. Others are looking into short-term solutions. Here are our top five tips to make the most of farm inputs
1 April 2022
If you are worried that you can’t afford to make multi-cut silage this year due to escalating prices, do a partial budget to calculate the cost of not doing it.
25 March 2022
Buy fertiliser if you can get it – but it’s just as important to test slurry this year and know exactly how much nitrogen you have.
18 March 2022
Even if you’ve had a good start to spring, make sure you still have an alternative grazing plan for a change in weather.