Advice for dairy farmers: Can you justify the cost of reseeding?

Excluding the costs of fertiliser and lime (necessary for both old and new pastures), the extra cost associated with reseeding varies from €200 to €250 per acre.

Some surface seeding of clean but damaged pastures can be carried out for less than €100 per acre.

The extra grass output from reseeding should be up to 1.5 tonnes of dry matter (7.5t of grass) per acre, per year, which is worth at least €250 per tonne.