Forage for Profit Discussion Group
The Forage for Profit Discussion Group are a group of beef and sheep producers based in South West Scotland with a common desire to improve business profitability through improved utilisation of grass and forage crops. The group meets regularly to share their experiences and hear from industry specialists on various elements of forage production and management to allow them to apply this in practice to their farming system.
- Rotationally grazing dairy cows
- Building autumn grass covers
- Winter feed budget
- White Clover Growth
- Heading dates
- Managing surplus and deficit growth
- Fetal development
- Calculating diet requirements
- Adding winter forage crops in the diet
- Grass mixtures
- Arable silage
- Choosing the right forage crop
- Combination crops
- Carbon audits
- improving efficiency
- Encouraging grass to tiller
- Pests in forage crops
- Monitoring livestock performance
- Silage sampling
- White clover
- Feed budgeting
- Soil Sampling
- Setting up to feed out forage crops
- Autumn fertiliser
- Potash
- Plate meters
- Planning forage crops
- Forage crop costs
- Silage quality
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