- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
There's a good TDM/ha more in your old pasture, by my eye.View attachment 819282 View attachment 819286
Top picture is old pasture bottom picture is ryegrass ley. Both cut for silage end of May both had the same levels of muck spread on after silage which hasn’t gone in that well due to it being dry. I measured them both today. Unfortunately I didn’t measure them after silage so I can’t say the growth per day but I do know the difference.
Which one has had the most growth?
I remember we did a similar experiment on the dairy farm I managed, the young guy was just doing his Feeding&Pastures module at the time.
We made two cages, cut the grass in both and dried them out to work out the DM per day an the old sward grew nearly double the DM of the young paddock in an effluent zone. But the plate meter told a different story, and my tow-behind pasture meter was even further out!
Over 1000kgDM/ha out!