GrassCheckGB is a grass monitoring project involving 50 dairy, beef and sheep farms.
Growth and quality data will be published weekly throughout the growing season.
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GrassCheckGB – 2020 SEASON SUMMARY
The 2020 season has brought a series of challenges, and among them have been some difficult conditions for grassland management on farms across GB. Farmers were faced with weather extremes from wet to dry and back again over the 2020 grazing season, and data gathered through the GrassCheckGB project shows just how the weather conditions have impacted grass growth rates throughout the season. GrassCheckGB involves a network of 50 farms monitoring grass growth rates across the country, is run by CIEL (Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock), AFBI and Rothamsted Research and is sponsored by AHDB Beef & Lamb, HCC, QMS, Datamars, Germinal, Waitrose, Handley Enterprises and Sciantec.
At the close of the projects second year in October 2020, GrassCheckGB farms had produced an average yield of 9.5 t DM/ha since the beginning of March, and whilst this is still a respectable volume compared to average industry figures (estimated to be 4.7-7.5 t DM/ha), it is over 1.4 t DM/ha below the average yields recorded across these same farms in 2019 of 11 t DM/ha.
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