After a drop off last week, growth has improved this again and the farm recorded 108kg/dm/Ha of growth over the past seven days.

Current demand continues to run at 62kg/dm/ha, however this is set to drop next week as more reseeded paddocks start to come back into the rotation. There is 19ha out for reseeding at the moment.

Average farm cover is 709 kg/dm/ha and the cover/livestock unit (LU) is 168kg/DM/Ha. The farm is currently stocked at 4.22 L.U/Ha and there is 11 days grazing ahead of stock, which is where we want to be.

There have been a number of paddocks taken out for bales in the past three to four weeks and there will be another two paddocks to come out in the next weather window.

Three paddocks were also topped that had become stemmy and weren’t being cleaned out by the cattle.

Cows are currently going into covers of 1,500 to 1,600kg/DM/ha and paddocks are getting 20 units of CAN after each grazing.

A total of 47 acres of first-cut silage was ensiled on 17 June.

Kale was sown three weeks ago and will get a dressing of CAN as soon as conditions allow. Cows and calves are due to be weighed next week.

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