Inside: Feed market

Grass surplus threatens due to growing weather

18 July 2017 - Erik Colenbrander

Now that the drought has ended in most of the Netherlands, there is a threat of a grass surplus, because an average of 100 to 150 kilograms of dry matter per hectare grows daily. There is much less young stock than usual to feed the lesser quality grass from the second half of the season. What to do with the yield from the second half of the grass season, now that the young stock is no longer so large?

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