{"id":861,"date":"2021-01-28T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T11:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/?p=861"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T11:04:31","slug":"spring-grazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/spring-grazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Grazing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spring block calving is about to begin, so its time to work out grass covers ready for grazing over the the next month <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aim for a pre graze cover of 2200-2300 kg\/cover , at this cover grass quality is high which is ideal for new calved animals , much higher than this on over covers the quality will be lower and hence have a impact on the diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graze the paddocks on off at first (3-4 hours\/day ) , aim to get around all the paddocks as fast as you can &#8211; Why because grazing grass simulates grass growth  after the winter period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_4666-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Early grazing in Lancashire <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring block calving is about to begin, so its time to work out grass covers ready for grazing over the the next month Aim for a pre graze cover of 2200-2300 kg\/cover , at this cover grass quality is high&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/spring-grazing\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}