In their latest newsletter, Local Land Services offered advice on preparing for winter to ensure that sheep and cattle have enough feed to remain fit and healthy.
Obviously very important. What caught my attention was that the advice seems to assume that there will be a 'winter feed gap' where the available grass is insufficient for the animals attempting to graze it necessitating supplementary hay or grain every year, even in a good year (like we are having now).
Why is this the conventional wisdom? Winter comes every year and grazing animals thrived through many long before our species even considered leaving the trees.
Plan ahead, look after your grasslands and allow the animals to do what they do best.
