Time to take advantage of the grass growth

As a very basic rule of thumb, you need 10 days of grass ahead of you on any one day

Now is the opportunity to build silage stocks for next winter rather than wasting strong awards. Picture: David Creedon

It’s amazing how quickly grass growth takes off when temperatures rise.

It happens every year after all and it is not surprising as most farmers had plenty of Nitrogen out trying to boost growth in April and May. Much of it was just sitting there ready for take-off once conditions improved. Many have reported growth rates of approaching and even over 100 Kg/DM/ha/day over the last week.