Rural Business

All Grass Wintering is a way of rationing grass over the winter with electric fencing for in lamb ewes. It is a long rotation – over 100 days from 3 weeks after tupping until 3 weeks before lambing.

This spreadsheet will help understand whether it would be possible on your farm with using a farm average grass cover in the late autumn. It predicts pasture covers under zero, moderate and high grass growth scenarios. This helps plan for the worst (zero grass growth). Most Scottish farmers will grow an average of 5 kg DM/ha/day grass growth over the winter. The target is to make sure there will be enough grass available at lambing time – aim for 1500 kg DM/ha, if the covers fall below this target under zero grass growth use the back-up feed required calculation.