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With grass growth hitting rates of 75kg\/DM\/day in Lancashire, we need to focus on grass management, if we let grass grow too far a head of cows we will struggle to maintain quality during the rest of the grazing year.<\/p>\n
Key points<\/p>\n
Make sure cows graze down the paddocks to residue of 1500-1700 kg\/DM\/Ha<\/p>\n
Turn cattle into fields of roughly 3000-3200 kg, if they getting towards 4000 kg, then make the decision to take these fields out off the grazing platform for now, and cut this field for silage.<\/p>\n
Graze at 3 leaf stage<\/p>\n
Consider the dry matter of grass at grazing when it comes too feeding the high yielding cows, they may not be getting the required amount of dry matter<\/p>\n
Don’t forget the magnesium levels in the diet.<\/p>\n
Grass protein is recording 24-27% at present which is a great driver for milk production from grass.<\/p>\n
With soil temperature’s of 10-11 degrees we can see grass growth only going one way at present and that is upwards<\/p>\n
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With grass growth hitting rates of 75kg\/DM\/day in Lancashire, we need to focus on grass management, if we let grass grow too far a head of cows we will struggle to maintain quality during the rest of the grazing…<\/p>\n