Grazing with monocultures and mixtures

Description

  • Grazing with monocultures and mixtures
  • Focusing on higher production and lower costs
  • Reseeding monocultures and identifying best performing varieties
  • Increase grass yield and grass quality per hectare
  • Soil fertility and grazing infrastructure
  • Economic results
  • Moorepark research
  • Increase output and reduce costs by increasing the amount of grass in the diet of the cows
  • Pasturebase Ireland

Reason for the innovation

Produce more milk from grass

  • Reseeding monocultures and identifying best performing varieties
  • Pasturebase Ireland

Farm description

Environment

  • Soil type: Sandy
  • Climate type: Temperate Oceanic climate
  • Altitude: Variation across the farm
  • Slope: Variation across different paddocks
  • Agricultural area (ha UAA): 68.8ha
  • Permanent grassland area (ha): 68.8ha
  • Average stocking rate (agriculture area) (LU/ha UAA): 2.95

Grassland management

  • Grazing: Yes
  • Grazing management type: Rotational grazing

Structure

  • Annual work units (AWU): 2
  • Main animal type: Dairy
  • Number of reproductive animals: 160
  • Breed type: Fr
  • Average stocking rate (agriculture area) (LU/ha UAA): 2.95

Animal performance

  • Milk production per head (l/year/dairy animal): 5500l
  • Grassland management type: Rotational
  • Length of grazing period: 285-300 days
  • Fertilization rate (kg N/ha): 210

Why it is working

  • Reseeding monocultures and identifying best performing varieties
  • Increase grass yield and grass quality per hectare
  • Increase grass grown and utilised per hectare from variety selection
  • Soil fertility and grazing infrastructure
  • Moorepark research
  • Increase output and reduce costs by increasing the amount of grass in the diet
  • Pasturebase Ireland

Additional information

Farming system

conventional farming

Domains of innovation

farm system, forage mixture, grazing management system

Main types of animal

dairy cattle

Country

Ireland

Product type

Farmer portrait

Language

English

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