Setting up for Summer

Whatever the summer conditions, the first management rule is to fully and efficiently use spring pasture before dry and hot conditions reduce the growth and quality of pasture. With irrigation restrictions many of the strategies are the same but there are also differences. Best practice grazing management in summer and autumn flows helps contribute to those good practices applied in spring.

FarmFact 1-32 Setting the farm up for a dry summer covers in detail pasture quality, Nitrogen fertiliser, rotation length, deferred grazing and summer crops.