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When turning cattle out to grass, give priority to lighter yearling stores or maiden heifers. Ground conditions are slowly improving around the country and thoughts will be gradually turning towards slipping a few animals out to grass. While farmers operating on drier land may well have some cattle already grazing, in the west and northern regions, turnout is more realistically towards the end of March or the start of April. An early turnout takes some level of planning. Turn too many cattle out too soon and you will run out of grass. Outlined are five tips to prepare cattle for turning out t...

Weather conditions: Wet weather has disrupted lots of early grazing plans. This week’s focus is on fertilisers and we have gone into detail on grazing plans and fertiliser applications on beef farms. If you can split your farm into three, the first third will be the heavy covers, these are better grazed first before any slurry or fertiliser is applied. That means these heavy covers should be grazed first when you get stock out. The next third of the farm should have medium covers and these fields are ideal for trailing shoe slurry or fertiliser. Aim to go with half a bag urea/acre once s...