Key Take Aways from ruumi’s 2025 start of season webinar – Kick-start your grass-growing season

We were really pleased with James Daniel’s ruumi webinar on Wednesday 112th March: “Kick off your grass-growing season with ruumi – Top tips to boost performance”. It was very informative.

See the YourTube link to the full recording below

We know not everyone has time to rewatch the whole webinar so have listed the key takeaways for you below.

• Spring grass is always high-quality! High protein, high DM.
• Spring grass (March to April) has sufficient energy and protein for growing and lactating animals – providing there is enough of it and it has a adequate content of minerals included:
  • Thanks to excellent market prices it pays ££££ to optimise production from pasture.
  • Each extra tonne of Dry Matter grown and utilised is potentially worth £200-400/ha! Spring provides the best opportunity to do this!
• Turning out early has two distinct advantages:
  1. Earlier grass has high dry matter content (due to low temperatures meaning slow growth) this aids the transition of animals from winter ration and allows rumen microbes time to adapt minimising growth check.
  2. Removal of overwintered plant leaves, triggers plants to grow resulting in more total dry matter production and increases tillering.
• In spring, soil temperature is the limiting factor for grass growth, grasses start growing when soil temperatures average 5 degrees and legumes at 8 degrees.
• At low soil temperatures, nitrogen is not the limiting factor for growth. Make sure not to fertilise too early, as it might result in wasted money and an unnecessary negative impact on soil and water quality.

Please feel free to get in touch with any questions about the webinar or ruumi.
We look forward to speaking to you soon.

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