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Dairy management: Crucial few weeks for grass
Aidan Brennan
Grazing conditions are perfect but grass growth rates and average farm cover are behind target leading to tricky grassland management over the next few weeks writes Aidan Brennan
15 March 2025 Grass & feeding
The Grass Week: second-round grass looking set to be tight
While grazing conditions are good, the outlook for regrowth on paddocks is less so.
12 March 2025 Grass & feeding
Grass+ Beef: good ground conditions, but poor growth
While ground has been trafficable for the most part, growth is behind on the norm and may affect when the second round kicks off.
Dairy Management: ideal week for letting stock out to grass
Another dry week in the forecast means that youngstock and milking cows are being turned out to grass in their droves, writes Aidan Brennan.
10 March 2025 Management
The Grass Week: drier week changes grazing game
Some weather stations have gone from recording double the normal weekly rainfall to seeing less than 20% of the normal falling in the last week.
8 March 2025 Grass & feeding
Farmer Writes: urea to follow slurry for early growth
Castlederg dairy farmer Jessica Pollock is keen to get grass growing and cows out grazing.
5 March 2025 Northern Ireland
Grass+ Beef: first of cattle turned out for many
The past week has seen the first of cattle turned out in many farms, with the longer days and more settled weather lending to more favourable grazing conditions.
5 March 2025 Grass & feeding
Grass+ Dairy: strong start to March grazing
After a poor finish to February grazing, March has kicked off well, with some drier conditions, writes Thomas Codon.
5 March 2025 Grass & feeding
Dairy Management: how much nitrogen to spread in March?
Aidan Brennan discusses how much nitrogen fertiliser should be applied now that conditions are good.
3 March 2025 Management
The Grass Week: milder and drier conditions to persist
While the last week to 10 days has been fairly miserable, the outlook is much more promising for the week ahead.
1 March 2025 Grass & feeding
Grass+ Dairy: heavy showers making grazing challenging
Torrential rain over the last week has made grazing nigh on impossible, but the week ahead looks more promising, writes Thomas Condon.
26 February 2025 Grass & feeding
Grass+ Beef: rainfall making grazing impossible, but soil temperatures rise
While the heavy rain in many parts of the country has hit grazing efforts hard, the positive is that soil temperatures have taken a good jump.
26 February 2025 Grass & feeding