Signpost: The priority right now is to get fertiliser onto silage ground

It’s important that I secure my winter feed for next year, so I can’t afford to skimp on this writes @TeagascSignpost farmer Joe Carroll

Joe Carroll, Rathmorrell, Causeway pictured on his farm outside Ballyheigue in County Kerry.

After a very slow start to the grazing season, I managed to get two grazings a day all through since the end of February.

I have 60% of the farm grazed now with an average farm cover of 870kg/DM/ha. I plan to finish the 1st round between April 10 and 15. It’s later than I would like but it could be worse if I hadn’t managed it over the last month. I started the evening milkings earlier to allow me to get the second grazing in and practised on-off grazing where I needed to.