Early spring grazing key to improve quality

The cattle farmer’s grazing aim must be to get all the fields (including the silage ground) grazed off so that the farm is set up to start the second rotation from early to mid April.

Early spring grazing gets grass back into the diets of suckler cows and beef cattle, while increasing the quality of grass that is grown and eaten in the second, third and subsequent grazings.

By grazing fields to 3.5-4cm in the first rotation, the digestibility can be increased by four units in May and June. The spring rotation planner is the tool that should be used to plan your first grazing rotation, as it removes all of the guesswork.