Skip to content

Publications

Filter by topic

Filter by type

Filter by year

Rotational Grazing Vlog: GrassCheck – Measuring grass at Oakwood Mill

      Giles discusses how and why he measures grass. By using a rising plate meter, he quantifies the grass in kilograms of dry matter per hectare. This is…

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Adapting the Grazing platform – a surplus of grass

    William discusses the use of dry cows and taking paddocks out for silage to deal with excess grass.  

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Pasture quality at Oakwood Mill

    Giles shows us his year old reseed with steers grazing and he shows what his grass looks like after three rounds of rotational grazing.  

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Adapting grazing in cooler May conditions on Shetland

    Grass growth on Scholland Farm has been slow due to cool may conditions. Therefore, the ewe and lamb grazing has been adapted and the cows are grazing shorter…

Rotational Grazing Vlog: An update after some rain

  Forest farm was getting quite dry, in this video, William returns to the heifers following 10 mm of much needed rain.  

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Scalpsie – the plan for 2020: deferred grazing & adapting for dry weather

    Ian gives an overview of Scalspie farm. With unseasonal dry weather this spring, he has had to adapt the plan to keep the stock going.  

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Introducing Ian Dickson & Scalpsie Farm

  Introducing Ian! Ian is contributing to the farmer video series to give practical insights into rotational grazing management and better grass utilisation. There are three other farmers in this…

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Introducing Giles Henry & Oakwood Mill

7 July 2020
Type:

    Introducing Giles! Giles is contributing to the farmer video series to give practical insights into rotational grazing management and better grass utilisation. There are three other farmers in…

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Introducing Jamie Leslie & Scholland Farm

    Introducing Jamie! Jamie is contributing to the farmer video series to give practical insights into rotational grazing management and better grass utilisation. There are three other farmers in…

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Introducing William Willis & Forest Farm

7 July 2020
Type:

    Introducing William! William is contributing to the farmer video series to give practical insights into rotational grazing management and better grass utilisation. There are three other farmers in…



Sign up to the FAS newsletter

Receive updates on news, events and publications from Scotland’s Farm Advisory Service