Grass growth: Pressure builds as dry spell continues
Grass growth rates have stagnated across the country, and with the forecast showing another week of this dry weather, farmers will feel the pressure mounting. According to Met Éire...
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Grass growth rates have stagnated across the country, and with the forecast showing another week of this dry weather, farmers will feel the pressure mounting. According to Met Éire...
Grass growth has been stagnant in the south-east for more than a week, as well as rapidly slowing across the west coast. Thankfully, Met Éireann has forecast much-needed scattered...
Grass growth around the country continues to vary greatly, with pressure mounting in the south-east while grass grows in the north-west. There is no doubt that it has been a hugely...
The story of the year for grass growth has been a country split in two, and this trend continues into the back-end of the year. The north-west of the country was slow to get grazin...
Considering the price of fertiliser this year, farmers must be conscious of application rates as grass growth slows. During the mid-season, it is easy to continue spreading nitroge...
As another heatwave sweeps across the country, farmers will have to take rising grass dry matter (DM) into consideration when deciding grazing plans. According to PastureBase Irela...
Drought conditions continue to prevail in the south-east, placing pressure on farms’ fodder resources for the winter. According to PastureBase Ireland, this week’s grass growth rat...
The top 10% of Ireland’s most profitable farms are feeding an additional 2kg of grass/cow/day when compared to the bottom 10%. This is according to Dr. Joe Patton, head of dairy kn...
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Grass growth may be on the floor, but farmers will have noticed that reseeds preformed better during the dry period than older mature swards. Farmers, especially those in the south...
Having the appropriate paddock size will be critical over the autumn following a tough couple of months. Grass is growing again, and the majority of the country will have fresh gra...
Tullow Livestock Mart, Co. Carlow, held its weekly cattle sale on Friday (August 7), where trade was “slightly easier” for beef though the absence of rain dominated discussions rin...
Rain will be a welcome sight to a lot of farmers this week, but there is a lot of precautions to be taken before grass becomes the staple of the diet again. Oak Park weather statio...
Grass tetany (hypomagnesaemia) can be an issue for many dairy farms during the autumn months, especially once rain starts to fall and grass growth rockets. As its stands, the count...
Like most drier parts of the country, grass growth rates have all but stalled on the ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow. Agriland recently caught up with ABP’s agri-sustainability manager...
Bees may be finding an overlooked source of protein in one of the most ordinary features of the Southeastern landscape: the lawn. A study from the University of Georgia reports tha...
Picking the right and best drought-tolerant grass seeds depends on your climate, your soil, and how much water you’re willing to use to keep it green. For very dry conditions, buff...
Due to the wet autumn last year followed by a wet spring this year, soil compaction may be holding many farms back in terms of grass growth. Cumulative grass growth was over 550kg...
The “crisis situation” facing farmers in the southeast of the country requires “robust measures” from the government. That is according to TD Paul Lawless, who warned that many far...
With rain finally falling in parts of the east this week, farmers will be eager to get fertiliser out and get grass growing. However, farmers are being warned not to spread fertili...
A northwestern Illinois producer says the economics of grazing his fields makes more sense than growing grain. Trevor Toland, who raises cattle in McDonough County, tells Brownfiel...
Total U.S. hay production forecast drops 9.3% from ten-year average while stocks increased 19.5% compared to last year nationwide.
Yong-Jiao Zhou, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discusses their article: Trait networks and the whole-plant economics spectrum: Uncovering key determinan...
Farmers have been urged to make the most of the recovery in grass growth in the last week or so in order to boost fodder supplies. That was one of the key messages from a meeting o...
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