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Forage crop production instead of grazing
Solution name: Forage crop production instead of grazing
Aim: Ensure fluently high quality forage for all aged sheep in your flock. If possible produce forage crops on arable land instead of grazing on pour pasture
Description:
In dry climate good quality grass and yield are just available sesonally
– Good nutrition – good production, yield (gestation, lambing, milking).
– Only on arable land you can produce good quality forage for grazing or for fermentated or for dry forage
Topic: Nutrition
Production: Dairy / Meat
Animal Category: Ewes/Lamb
Issue: Alternative forages
Level of Solution: Knowledge, Practical
Country: Hungary
How to implement it
Suitable crop production:
– Silage corn, sudan grass, silage sorghum, grazing rye
– Silage and dry forage production or fresh feeding
Expected benefits
- Better human source efficient
- Better yield production
- Fluently good feeding quality for all year long
- Less parasite infection
Prerequisites and/or limits
- Habits of shephard (lose the grazing)
- Higher investment cost for machinary
- Low knowledge
- Gap of advising
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