Post drought management on farm

Fodder in the pit or yard is like cash in the bank in my view. Be it Grass silage, Maize silage, Whole crop, straw, hay or haylage, any of them in stock as a reserve serve as great security in years like this.

As we finally got some rain over the last week, we will now hopefully get a bounce in growth to see us through the autumn. 

Grass won't just appear though, so supplementation will be required on many farms for a few weeks yet and many will need to continue to feed supplementary forage right up to housing. Silage stocks have been eaten into on a lot of farms and producers need to be careful not to be relying on a further cut of silage to replenish pits and bales as it is very unlikely that any volume of silage will be saved once we are well into September.