New grazing project aims to increase meat output per hectare

2014-04-15T00:00:00

“There is huge potential for efficiencies in red meat production by refining our grassland management,” said Johnny Mackey, QMS head of industry development. “Currently only 50-60% of the grass we grow ends up in the rumen."

Improving the utilisation of grass to increase the kilogrammes of meat produced per hectare is the main objective of a major new grassland project announced by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) today (April 14th 2014).

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