Electric Fence Story - Summer Pasture Management

This summer has been a fantastic growing year for most farmers... but how do you make the most of your fields?  This blog gives a brief insight into how one of our customers has made the most of his electric fencing and increased his production of winter fodder whilst giving his stock plenty of summer grazing.

One of our customers has sent photos in of his various set ups.  He has used 12v battery powered energisers on each of his systems.  His batteries have lasted 2 weeks before the green starts to fade and they need recharging.  He let us know that he is getting about 2000-3000kv on his fencing - and with a little better fence management we suggested that he would get a better zap for more like 7000kv.  He really shouldn’t leave his energiser lying on damp ground for starters!  That is one way for it to get water logged and then it wouldn’t work at all.

 Some electric fence summer tips

To get the best out of any electric fencing system during the summer Electric Fencing Direct suggested to this farmer that:

• in various places the grass has grown up on to the bottom line which is drawing power out of the fence - either lift the line or cut the grass under the fence
• it is always a good idea to hang your energiser up and not leave it lying on damp ground as this can increase the chances of the circuitry inside the energiser getting damp and failing
• another tweak he could make would be to add another earth stake to the system as his fencing is on quite dry ground and further to water around the earth stake if it has been very hot dry weather as this will help the electric fence circuit to complete.

Electric fence = more feed 

However the most satisfactory reason for sharing these photos is to say that this customer has managed to split fields that were previously only used for grazing cattle or sheep and so by doing this he has made lots more silage than in previous years.  Fergus says so far "that is 150 bales that we would not have had and would have trampled or topped.  It is an exceptional growing year and we would not do it every year, but great to have the option.  This should allow us to make more hay on the carse rather than silage – weather dependent.  And should result in us making more cash from selling hay."

So all in all more fodder made for the winter as some of the grass is saved.  Sounds like a sensible solution to me!

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