[Kate Tarrant]

The trick in our short growing season with annuals is to try to keep the pasture in a vegetative state- that can be a challenge if you don’t have enough livestock.

What do you think about leaving some paddocks to ‘stockpile’ for summer standing feed and focus on the remaining paddocks for quality. By that I mean moving slow enough to ensure recovery but fast enough to keep it vegetative.. at the moment I reckon that’s leaving for only around 40 days, that will speed up as it warms up. A bit of a combo of Dick Richardson’s method with Judi Earls.