Grazing 2025

what is sweet grass

Looks like the marketing guys have a successful brand. Its basically CAN+S

Would cattle need/drink much water in this wet weather - infrastructure isn’t the best here and strip grazing at the minute other side of the electric fence has no water

Would get away for 2 or 3 days without water - when the grass is wet.

unfortunately not, it’s a 25 acre outfarm that I keep in for silage - only has one plumbed in drinking trough 😅

have a mobile drinker that I use to draw water to it.

I’ve loads of grass but cattle picking at straw in the shed after they get meal. Has anyone thrown the round feeder in the corner of the field with a bale of silage yet?

what do lads use to hold up the fence reels when doing temporary fencing? I have a few off these find them handy but hard to get into dry ground at times of the year.

know I never use multi strand even for calves. My fencer is putting out high voltage they would never even chance it. But just a general question on the anchoring of the reel. And is the pig tail string enough to hold the reel? I would love to see a picture of that? As I do like the reel anchor but the pigtails are much cheaper.

Ah Jaysus they’re nearly finished. I’ve loads of grass still but not happy.

I have some ground that got poached over the weekend.

Just wondering could you roll ground if you got a few days of hard frost and you just happen to time it right with a bit of thaw,

normally only roll in the spring/summer here is it doable ?

I have a few fields with big brown patches scratched in them. I'm convinced its due to deer fighting at night as we have lots of them at the moment and you can see all the eyes at night. Would they be doing this to the fields?

have a field that I took a batch of heifers off today and they have it badly poached which is surprising to me in that I would have considered it a fairly dry field. I know they got a lot of rain on it from the storm a few weeks ago to last weeks rain and a yellow rain warning on wed. What are my options here to repair this sward in the spring as this is a meadow? I don’t want to reseed it as it is earmarked for reseeding in 2027 ( field beside it need a lot of drainage and will do they block together) would a couple of runs of a chain harrow in the spring sort it out for me and the roll it?

Half the problem was the heifers themselves there where constantly running round the paddock when I give them fresh grass they would do laps of it where as I have heavier bullock in a different field (wetter ) and they are doing no harm.