Winter grazing: avoiding the pitfalls
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This time of the year livestock are arriving on arable farms so it’s important that farmers have a feed plan prepared. In this episode of Cut the Crop, PGG Wrightson Seeds national technical manager Wayne Nichol tells Alison Stewart that most animal health issues occur when stock transition from pasture to specialty feed crops.
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