Adaptive grazing management - building resilience into NZ grazing systems

In this Quorum Sense webinar we will be focusing on grazing management and planning in a New Zealand landscape. We have Siobhan Griffin up first with a presentation on grazing principles and planning and then we will be hearing from Jason Sutherland; Sheep and beef farmer from Central Otago and Sean & Jodi Brosnahan; Sheep and Beef farmers from rural Gisborne.

Hear from New Zealand farmers sharing their challenges, their learnings and of course their successes as they take on managing livestock and pastures to promote health, resilience and performance on farm.

Content

Short presentations by the panelists are followed by a Q&A session. Topics covered in this webinar included:

• developing holistic grazing plans
• optimising recovery for your desired outcome
• growing more grass per unit of water
• the benefits of diversity in pasture
• using mobbing to promote grass quality
• using deferred grazing to shift spring flush to summer
• adapting to a dry summer
• adjusting using area, stocking rate and/or supplementation (ASS)
• using bale grazing to to recover from low summer covers

Links to related resources:

• QS podcast: #9 - Celebrating pastoral farming with Siobhan Griffin

• QS case study: Bale grazing - an alternative to winter crops (although focused on wintering, much of the information in this case study is also relevant to summer bale grazing)

• QS case study: Hamish Bielski - South Otago, Ep2 grazing management