The Farmers Mart Spring 2017 - Issue 50 | Page 87

Fencing Get a Hotline to fencing this Spring Spring is springing. The grass is will soon be shooting up and the animals will be eagerly sizing up the verdant buffet materialising before their eyes. » » SO NOW WE ALL LOOK TO fencing to help maximise forage stocks by controlling grazing and curtailing any unchecked feasting. The use of electric fencing has long been an effective method of encouraging animals to feed on pasture at the rate which balances day to day need and future requirement. Many will be looking at dusting off the electric fencing sitting in the corner of the shed to see if it is up to another season in the field. Wires and tapes can become snarled and knotted over the course of its lifet