Grazing 2023

Soil temperatures are up to 3C above normal. Grass growing well.

Be getting cattle out on any dry fields. The dry weather next week will give a chance to many to spread a bit of fertlizer.

As we go over 10c frosty nights will stop impinging growth. Magic day could be two weeks ahead of normal.

I expect to have everything out by early next week ( some land had gone in to Geese and Swan).

Same. Been a long bastard of a winter. Housed since early November and at least two weeks more assuming things dry up.

of you had a week of weather like today things would look a lot rosier

All out this morning bar a few straggler cows yet to calve. Turned out to be a long winter. Grass is flying over the last few days and the week ahead is promised to warm up even more

Anyone else notice the poor growth over the last few days, we need a bit of heat or it'll be next impossible to keep grass ahead of them

Spring has sprung I noticed this evening. There will be lads topping this time next week. I heard the cuckoo today

I can't stand the sound of the cuckoo as the only time I hear his monotonous call is when I'm footing turf in the bog and it goes on for hours and hours. Unless it dries up in the next few weeks there will be no banks cut around here until mid Summer.

I'm thinking of cutting silage mid week is giving good. It won't be heavy but it will be good stuff. Huge growth here.

Almighty difference today in growth.

Shoved them on here As well. Fed a shocking amount of silage since last October.

Thank God I'm bad at maths.

Spread the fertiliser on a dew to give it a quick start to melting.

Any water is a help. Could go 500 g an acre on 2 occasions. Little and often with anything.

its only in the last week grazing is going well. Ground drys out fairly quick growth is flying again.We got rain at the weekend which caught out plenty around here who’d grass knocked. Mowing tomorrow