Jun 22, 2015 · A grazing wedge is a simple visual depiction of what you have available for grazing in all of your pastures. Once the data is entered into the spreadsheet, it can be sorted from highest to lowest available stockdays/acre (SDA) creating ‘the grazing wedge’.

May 5, 2020 · The challenge is to interpret the wedge and there is plenty of advice available to assist you with this. Examples of a perfect wedge, a wedge in surplus and a wedge in deficit. View video below for more information the grass pland and managing grass.

From carrying out weekly grass measurements, a farm can use software to plot grass covers and grass growth against livestock requirements. This then creates a grass wedge and plots it against livestock demand.

The phenomenal grass growth that can be achieved in Ireland is our key competitive advantage over most other EU beef producers. When managed correctly, grass is a comparatively cheap, very nutritious feed for all types of cattle. With good …

Mar 17, 2022 · A feed wedge, also known as a pasture wedge or grass wedge, enables farmers to visually see how the pre-grazing yield is distributed across the paddocks for making best grazing decisions. A feed wedge has many feathers in its cap and helps farm management maintain pasture smartly and profitably.

Tutorial on all aspects of the grass wedge on the AgriNet grass website.Visit www.agrinet.ie.

PastureBase Ireland is the national grassland database providing daily updates on grass growth across the country. With a major focus on improving the nitrogen use & management on farms, PBI has added a number of important tools to assist …

A grass wedge is a simple bar chart of the grass covers in each paddock, ordering the paddocks from the highest to lowest pasture cover, creating ‘the grazing wedge’. It is an easy to follow visual display of the quantity of grass available across the grazing platform.

Apr 3, 2020 · The PBI grass app is a fast and very user-friendly app where farmers can enter grass covers, grazings and silage cuts, livestock numbers and intakes, milk data and record fertiliser applications. Recent enhancements include the Teagasc spring rotation planner (SRP) and projected wedge.

Description: This perennial grass is 1-3' tall, forming a small tuft of unbranched culms with alternate leaves. The slender culms are light green to straw-colored, terete, and glabrous. About 3-4 leaves occur along the lower two-thirds of each …