Grazing for Profit - Dairy

‍Spring's the make-or-break window. Are you grazing on gut feel, or on leaf stage?

If spring goes wrong, you spend the rest of the season chasing your tail. That's the blunt version of what Conan and Brooke covered in our last webinar — and honestly, it's the conversation every dairy farmer needs to be having right now.
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We're talking leaf stage over round length. Full recovery over "it looks alright from the gateway." And why one extra leaf stage before grazing drove DairyNZ's trial paddocks over a tonne more DM/ha — same system, same inputs, one change.
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Brooke also shared the mindset shift that's changed how she runs her own farm: budgeting feed on a later balance date, prioritising fibre over rocket fuel, and getting her soil biology firing before the ground temp even asks her to.
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Plus a case study on turning her two worst paddocks into two of her best (139–153 kg DM/day vs 75 kg DM/day down the fence line — no, that's not a typo).
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Real farmers, real questions, real answers — including a live Q&A on El Niño planning and how much deferred grazing is too much deferred grazing.

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