Making grazing pay: Practical decisions from Moorhouse Hall Farm

Join us at Moorhouse Hall Farm, one of our Strategic Dairy Farms, for a practical, grazing-focused farm walk. You'll explore how grazing management, infrastructure and system decisions are shaping forage utilisation and milk from forage on a commercial dairy farm.

You’ll be taken through the farm’s current grazing strategy, including paddock management, cow flow, grazing access and the practical decisions influencing performance this season.

Through field-based discussion and open farmer-to-farmer conversation, you’ll explore what's working well, the compromises involved, and the lessons being learned in real time.

A key focus of the event will be understanding how infrastructure and wider business decisions influence grazing success.

You’ll hear how the farm’s decision not to winter lambs this year is helping to prioritise spring grazing availability, protect grass covers and maximise milk from forage opportunities within the dairy system.

During the event, you'll learn about:

• Their grazing strategy and how rotation management is being implemented
• Grass utilisation, residuals and forage quality – what’s working in the field
• The role of infrastructure, cow flow and paddock design in grazing performance
• Key system decisions and trade-offs affecting milk from forage and grazing days
• Practical lessons, benchmarks and open discussion on what can be applied on farm

This event is designed to be practical, honest and discussion-led, giving you the opportunity to walk the system, challenge ideas, compare approaches and take away practical actions you can apply within your own grazing system.

Whether you're already heavily focused on grazing or looking to improve grass utilisation and milk from forage within your system, this event will provide practical insight, peer-to-peer discussion and real-world decision-making from a working dairy farm.

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided.