AHDB Grass

Well-managed grassland provides the cheapest feed throughout the year, either as grazed grass or silage. Making the most of grass on your farm offers a huge opportunity to increase profits in a sustainable way.  

Optimising grass production and utilisation has four key elements:

• soil management
• nutrient management
• grassland management
• alternative species

We have launched a campaign that aims to help farmers manage and better utilise their grass as part of our environment work.

There is planned activity throughout the year, from grass training courses through to grazing discussion groups. We also plan to make a noise about grass across our social media channels, so please join in using #AHDBGrass.

Suported by AHDB Grass, the BGS Grazing Mentors can help you to unlock the potential of your pasture. The one-to-one guidance on your grazing strategy is specifically tailored to your own farm. 

The 2021-22 Developing Grass Expertise Programme (DGE) programme aims to recruit anyone looking to develop their knowledge, skills and competence to produce and utilise grazed grass and silage to help support levy payers.

Forage for Knowledge is our weekly grass newsletter, which gives you grass growth from across the UK, as well as technical information related to grassland management. 

The Recommended Grass and Clover Lists for England and Wales is recommendation on grass and clover varieties, which are drawn up after rigorous testing for attributes such as yield, persistency, quality and disease resistance.

GrassCheckGB, run by CIEL, is a grass monitoring project involving 50 dairy, beef and sheep farms. Growth and quality data will be published weekly throughout the growing season.

In these articles, farmers share how improving grassland management has benefited them.