Hosted by Quorum Sense’s ‘Catch the Rain’ project
FREE to attend
Registration required.
Click here to register for ‘Catch the Rain’ webinar series - ‘Deferred Grazing’ (hosted on Zoom)
Join webinar host Sam Lang (Quorum Sense, Foothills Farming) and guest farmers Mark Koopmans, Jono Frew and Russell Heald as they explore the practice of deferred grazing in New Zealand.
Deferred grazing is a management practice where surplus pasture growth is saved by setting paddocks aside (similar to silage or hay) and usually grazed when feed demand exceeds pasture growth, providing a low cost ‘supplementary feed’ that can protect pasture recovery times during dry or cold weather. Deferred grazing can also offer a number of soil health and pasture benefits.
Topics covered will include:
How and why farmers utilise deferred grazing in different systems
Things to think about when selecting paddocks to defer, stock classes, grazing densities, utilisation etc
Farmer observations regarding stock performance, pasture benefits, soil benefits etc
And more…
This webinar is funded by Beef + Lamb New Zealand as part of the ‘Catch the Rain’ project - anyone is welcome to attend.
About ‘Catch the Rain’
Catch the Rain is a farmer-driven education, research and innovation project focused on improving rainfall infiltration and soil moisture retention on non-irrigated pastoral farms. Is it funded by Beef + Lamb New Zealand and led by Quorum Sense.
There are 40 farmers participating from Southland to the Manawatu that are developing, implementing and monitoring on-farm trials. Many of these trials are focused on testing different grazing techniques. For more about Catch the Rain visit www.quorumsense.org.nz/catch-the-rain-project.