Remove rubbish from fields. Remember lead poisoning and the threat of nails, wire etc, puncturing the stomach of cattle. To avoid cattle rampaging around the field, place them in a yard for 24 hours with reduced feed, prior to turnout, so they enter the field hungry. Turn out cattle when sward height is 5-6 cm. An early application of urea to the driest fields can help to achieve this earlier in the year.
Early turnout saves silage and can improve cattle growth rates.
Do not feed concentrates to beef cattle at turnout. Grazing Systems To Consider Set Stocking Appears simple and cheap, but is very difficult to manage correctly, due to inflexibility. If stock are turned out late and at too low a stocking rate the grass gets, and remains, ahead of the stock throughout the grazing season. Therefore in the latter part of the season poor quality stemmy grass is all that is available and cattle growth rates suffer. Electric fencing can be used to sub-divide larger fields.