Your Weekly Grass10 Update

0:00Hello everyone, Janmar here. It's Thursday the 5th of March and this is your weekly grass tent update under Dairy Edge. While there's been one of the best weeks of the spring so far I suppose with some good dry days but while grass growth has been above average due to supposed to higher air and soil temperatures at times during the week, grazing conditions still remain challenging. Grass supply is running in around 900 kilograms of trimash per hectare but the grazing strategy I suppose remains a largely unoff approach for most farms. Assuming embers were turned out in the first place of course and some farms haven't turned out yet and still waiting but at the same time I do know some farms are running tight on silage and some farms are also short of quality silage. So I suppose this puts more pressure on now to try and get cows out grazing, manure hoping for a dry week to calm. This doesn't appear in any predicted forecast that we have at this point so there will

1:04be some dry days which will help grazing and you know either slow your fertilizer application but the weather pattern largely remains broken. So I suppose in a nutshell a flexible approach to grazing will be required. We're not going to get this raised run of a period of dry weather, it's just going to remain largely you know good days bad days and we have to try and take opportunity when it presents itself and work better with the bad days when they come. Road predictions are set to be higher than normal due to largely mild weather at about 15 kilograms of trimash per hectare per day for the week ahead and dry matters are running at about 16%. So I suppose it's a case then of getting back to grazing here now. Larger use an unoff approach to grazing to maximize the level of grass in the dyes. High-intakes can be achieved in in short periods of grass was it was in reason some farms are doing even a second-bison evening which takes a bit of organizing now a fair degree of flexibility and planning but if the conditions were improving it

2:04might be an opportunity for some particularly where there's a low level of fodder available where the quality surge is poor. There's a lot of cow cows and the high-feed demand. I'll come to our feature farmer in the minutes and the world she was also doing this second-bison but I'll lead that there for one minute and get to that. So I suppose to move on then and move into fertilizer and slurry application and I suppose having fertilizer ordered and in the yard is the first priority and some farms haven't done that which they need to do. We're talking now about targeting three quarters of biker protected urea to areas of farm that haven't received any fertilizer or our slurry at the other point here is to not to be waiting on the whole farm. There are some products or fields are just too wet and shouldn't be should be skipped but those are parts of farm should have either an application or slurry or fertilizer happen at this stage. I suppose the challenging conditions have disrupted grazing today on many farms while many farms will know I

3:06have to target media for the start of the second rotation. A lot of farms only have a very little amount of grazing if not if if I think at all. So it's basically a change to the spring rotation planner is what I'm getting out here and if you've got target percent of the farm grazing by paddy's day another six percent but by the frost of April and the remainder of farm raised by middle of April is probably a kind of a broad outline of a plan for for money at this stage. Doing across budget on PBI would be even better tool to get you there especially her farm cover is low and demand is high it takes a bit of planning now. I suppose there is a greater demand on most farms at this stage now because calvin rates are higher cows are cal longer and intakes arise and so I suppose all that needs to be kept in mind as we go through the plan. Right so on to our feature farmer then I suppose and to watch from one more county go away where the average farm cover at this stage is just over 900 but a lot of the farm is grazed you're in the dry part of go away too far. This is a hunter hectare platform almost with 300 cows to calf with age she presents the herd

4:09calves like a lot of farms know there's a high demand here because a lot of cows calved. The cow dies at the moment is about 3 kilos a meal 9 kilos of grass and 3 kilos of silage which I'll call it tick we're sorry to suppose which will come to a minute. The main kill currently is around 21 liters of 5 tree fat and 3.7 protein and it's working hard now to get grass and the animals but night and day I suppose just to explain so I suppose starting point is that the silage is gone by 6 a.m. or milking in the morning right cows go out there around 9 for grass they stay out to full day of the dry overhead but if the rain still come in milking in the evening is air league which is the right thing to do and when you try to do a flexible approach to grazing so to make the tree a clock decisions then are made as I suppose there's a bachelor's system and operation here for the what we call the nighttime allocation of grass right and all this is says this is by the sport roadways I put into the farm last year which have

5:10basically allowed a lot more options in spring grazing there's a grass budget done does it I suppose a move now into the heavier covers on the farm which is tricky in the weather that we have but I suppose it's just a case of having this well taught out well planned and making life easy you know end is on a bad bad latch system here but if you are on a system where the cows are going out in daylight which I'd suggest a commoning and darkness that the place you pick has to be easy for the cows to get out and for you to get them in in darkness so often people who do this type of just two bite strategy will have a part of farm for a day and deal with the awkward areas and do the simple areas and the easy areas and in the evening so that when they're almas if they have to go in because it's raining then it's easy to you know get them in about the hazard factor intent of end end is farm the there's 400 kilograms of dramatic projector back on the first paddock so recovery is actually very good on farms and it's on track even if not ahead on many farms that's good to see for those who have raised and there's

6:12a little bit more detail on what I'm outlining in the grass 10 news of her though for what the end is doing but so far I've ever gone in a lot of flexibility required to get grass in and a lot of planning but the tools are in place but on the platform and I suppose with the grass figures helps get hold this fairly well right so that's the story of Ender speaking of farms our last spring grazing event is planned for choose a tent to march on Sunford farm in this carol near Mallow and County Park with Dar escolli so that's the last one of the spring grazing walks but I'd like to say a special thanks to all those farmers who hosted the spring grazing events on their farm the spring in what was a very difficult year a difficult start the grazing season and also thank my chagas colleagues for organizing and delivering these events as well but you know it's well worth the effort to attend these events because you've always learned something new in terms of how to get your grazing moving in spring in a tricky time of the year when farmers are busy cows are carving whether it's not the best and there are challenges there

7:18speaking of challenges I suppose the waterfall cast for weekend ahead is reasonable so I may allow some slurry of fertilizer to get applied and get maybe some of the more awkward parts of the farm grazed if that opportunity can present itself unfortunately with a forecast into next week is a different story so there's a bit of tinking and planning and required anyway in terms of grazing this spring it's all right to say that right so finally then if you'd like to hear more from the grass 10 teams subscribe to weekly grass 10 news that you're which is available on the grass 10 page on the chagas public website until linked to this news that results available in the description is podcast we'll let thank all those who support the grass 10 campaign AIB grass and I grow department like culture food and marine FBD and the farmer's journal this has been year of grass 10 update and I will talk to you all again next week when we have order updates on all things grazing but there is a level of flexibility and planning required in the current conditions and I wish the best of luck with those plans