Instead of giving your cattle feed barley at 180/t, imagine they were getting the same energy from fodder that was costing you the equivalent of just 77/1. How would flock performance improve if, for every three mouthfuls of grass your ewes consumed,they were getting the energy equivalent of four? That's the difference well-managed grassland can make to a beef or sheep farmer, according to EBLEX. The first year's results of GrassWatch, an EBLEX initiative run in association with Farmers Weekly, have been analysed and the project is set to start again in March for 2011.
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