Dairies striving to maximise early grass growth with fertiliser must take care when making applications on cold, wet soils. Rising soil temperatures have allowed fertiliser spreading to start, but grass growth is slow after last winter's combination of low temperatures and high rainfall.AHDB's excess winter rainfall (EWR) - which uses Met Office data - has high or very high excess rain compared to the long-term average.With elevated feed costs, increasing milk from forage and days at grass will be priorities on many farms.
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