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Grassland Management
18 May 2022
Ruminant News spring/summer 2022 - with the recent rise in the cost of living and energy bills, this issue is very much focused on reducing fixed costs on farm. One farmer talks about reducing labour and medicine costs through using Targeted Selective Treatment when it comes to their worm control within his flock, whilst a beef suckler farmer talks about how he has reduced fertiliser use and reduced feed costs by optimising his grazing and has increased his outputs by doubling his herd size. The magazine also contains the fantastic results in changing consumer buying habits following the We Eat Balanced campaign and there are some dates for your diary on the back too.
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.
27 October 2022
It’s been a tough year for grassland managers. Growing half of his normal dry matter has tested James Muir’s ability to adapt and build resilience into a 400-cow spring-calving business.
14 February 2025
With fertiliser prices sky rocketing, what can farmers and agronomists do?
11 February 2022
AHDB will be rolling out six grass discussion groups across the country in collaboration with grazing consultants, which aim to help farmers understand more about best practice when it comes to grassland management.
3 July 2024
This grazing forage wall planner helps with grassland management all-year round
30 October 2023
Accounting for fertiliser and feed prices, it calculates the cost benefit of applying nitrogen to grassland.
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29 October 2021
Scottish dairy farms can grow quality grass – and lots of it – as one Stirlingshire unit has discovered while taking part in AHDB’s Forage for Knowledge programme*. Robin Young’s Waterside Farm at Kinbuck outside Dunblane is improving feed quality and saving money by making more of grazed grass.
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29 October 2021
Scottish dairy farms can grow quality grass – and lots of it – as Robin Young has discovered while taking part in Forage for Knowledge. Measuring and testing grazed grass every week for the past seven years has shown Robin that Waterside Farm in Stirlingshire not only produces 12 ME grass, but also 12 t DM/ha from its grazing paddocks.
20 October 2021
Introducing cattle into arable rotations to ‘beef’ up the profit margin webinar
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20 October 2021
Panel discussion: How to successfully manage sheep on herbal leys webinar
20 October 2021
Integrated farming strategies to improve farm health and performance webinar