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Gasp: the cows love fescue (and I do too)
I’m beginning a clandestine (well maybe I’m coming out of the closet with this blog) love affair with fescue and cocksfoot. Our Gippsland dairy farm has always relied on a combination of ryegrass and...
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Watching grass grow really is exciting
We’ve been preparing for this for two years now. The house paddock has been limed to manage its acidity, soil tested, fertilised to balance the nutrients, treated with effluent and deep ripped to...
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Toad rush is more fallout from the wet
Some of our paddocks have been so saturated for so long that the newly sown perennial pastures have been overwhelmed by toad rush. Toad Rush is a weed described by the RIRDC in this cheerful way: “Toad...
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Gotta be quick to respond as Spring springs
Spring has pounced…at last and with a flourish! Each week, I monitor the growth rate of our grass and by golly it’s shot away in seven days. This means we can offer the cows a larger slice of each...
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