Chaff as Sheep Feed
June 5, 2018
We have known for a long time that towing a chaff cart at harvest is a great tool to drive down the weed seed bank.
What we missed for a long time though, was that the chaff dumps can be a great source of sheep feed. Ed Riggall is a WA-based consultant who specialises in livestock management and grazing systems. Ed’s passion is the integration of cropping with livestock which led him to investigate grazing chaff dumps as a source of sheep feed.
Ed has recently completed his second year of measuring the benefits to sheep of grazing chaff dumps from a range of crops and shares his knowledge on this research and how he has observed farmers adopting this practice in the south west of WA in the below webinar recording.
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