Playing catch-up in the fields and yard after a harsh spring
The Combi Clamp sheep handling unit is produced by Gibney Steel in Oldcastle, Co Meath
At last the weather seems to have normalised and that cold harsh blast has finally moved on. At my recent STAP meeting we could separate the farmers who had grass problems into two groups, those that had not reseeded in recent years and those that had.
In a year like this, reseeded grass pays dividends. It has a faster response to fertiliser and pushes on with growth, albeit it might be slower than normal but it is still better than older pasture. Those that had reseeded in my STAP group were therefore performing better on the grass front than those that had not.
