[Mark Tupman]

Hey Kate,

The premise is that unless you have exclusively ryegrass and clover paddocks, the stock won’t graze it down to a nice even hight, they’ll graze the best and leave the rest, so grazing it to a certain hight is kind of a mute point. They’ll also eat the leaves first and leave the stems. This can mean inadequate fibre intake at certain times of year and regrowth with a poor leaf to stem ratio.

The other thing with a more complete and harder graze is that you can set smaller breaks and get better utilisation of the forage which buys time on your rotations for recovery of species that need longer than annual ryegrass.