Seriously, where is the grass?

We're only 40 miles south of you & mine are both muzzled! Am currently waiting for my farmer to cut my other knee-high paddock for haylage! What's going on in Nottingham?!!
 
another in shrops, im on shrop/cheshire border and despite resting and fertilising and spraying the buttercups (which were everywhere !) i've still got very little comming through, normally i'd be happy as they are all good doers, but this winter has really knocked them for six (especially the oldies) and they are all being hayed and fed :eek: normally by now i'm panicking they are are getting too fat.

dont know the answer to it really, as i have put the required amount of fertiliser on and soil conditioner (calcified seaweed stuff) i dont know what else i can do, the clover is only just starting to poke its nose up, and normally the field is thick with it, i'm hoping things will get better but if it doesnt start to pick up soon i'm worried how i'm going to get through the winter - thankfully have 5 acres of grass to cut for hay (rented field for hay only) so should have enough for the winter but its costing a fortune to keep haying them through the summer - i'm using 2 bales a day !!!!
 
Crikey! I am in derbys on clay and have grass coming out of my ears! Our paddock that is not currently grazed is now past my knees and too thick to walk through until the farmer decides to cut it. My horses starvation paddock may need trimming in size as it is growing more than I would like!
 
Plenty here too....

people keep saying we need it to rain so te grass will grow and I'm like 'REALLY??' am I the only one who can see this green stuff growing before our very eyes??!
 
My fertilised grass is not doing much here in West Norfolk, good job there's only one on four acres at the moment!!
 
Another one with no grass, I'm in the north west. We have 13 horses/ponies/foals on 16acres and will need to swap into the winter field or section off in the next few months, they've only been in summer field 2 months! :(
 
Our grass is really slow, still feeding hay to the minis as they are still coming in at night. My two big ones are out 24/7 but usually by May I am blocking them into the smaller fields as there is too much grass but I only did that this week when I could see the old mare looking a little too well. Even my lawn isn't growing that much, we have only cut it once this year!! I am in South West Wales.
 
I'm based in Devon and I hardly have anything! Fenced half the paddock for 3 weeks and its barely 4cms high with lots of bare patches! Still going through a round bale of hay in 10 days for 3 mares and feeding hard feed twice a day :'( send some grass down this way, usually this time of year I start saving money to put away for hay for winter! Gah!
 
More than I have ever seen in my fields in 4 years of being here have had to restrict all 4 ponies to their winter field as the grass is growing faster that they can eat it. I do feed small feeds for added fibre as they are fatties on very short grass
Lawn cut twice a week is like a meadow only cut last tuesday

We are in North lincolnshire and havent had much rain
 
9 acre field cut for haylage this week, 22 large round bales, last year we got 65! This field is not grazed apart from after cutting then by sheep to manage it. Do not assume anything Jinglejoys, in this case you are wrong.

Crossing fingers can get second cut off, or we'll have to buy in. We're in the deepest southwest between the moors.
 
I walked to the bottom of my field last night, without a word of a lie, it was up to my neck! I am not overly short, 5'4ish.
 
Mine is far from over grazed yet I have 3 natives all perfect weights rather than restricted so far this year because there is not much growth. I am in Glos.
 
We have zero grass its usually ankle height its been rolled, harrowed and had grass seed put on it and there's barely a centimetre :( ponies are looking okay thou but there eating around half there winter rations very odd to still be feeding hay in June .....
 
We've more grass than is good for us at the moment. Hay is cut (and getting wet. boo hoo) around here as well. We aren't far from you, about 30 miles so would think that you ought to be okay now.
 
We have plenty here in Warwickshire and our other field is being rested and has a nice covering on it. Won't be letting them in to munch it down for a while yet though as there is still plenty of grass in the field they are on.

A couple of years ago we had none at all and for the first time since being on the yard (that the YM can remember) we were feeding hay in August.
 
None in my part of north yorks either - still haying daily. But our paddocks were under water for some time in the winter and are not rotated either. YO has promised to move us and stick the sheep in soon to help it thicken up. Lots of docks and buttercups but grass sparse. Hoping today's rain will help.
 
got more than I know what to do with. half of my field is fenced off and is pretty much waist height! im scared if my mini escapes I wont find him in the long grass

 
I wonder if it's more down to grass type/species. I found this, it's a bit of a read - but it does explain certain species likes and dislikes in terms of drought, soil type etc.

http://learningstore.uwex.edu/assets/pdfs/A3637.pdf

Our pasture is old sward, which is a mixture of grass types and plants and hasn't been interfered with for years. However, this year (like a lot of people), the buttercups have taken hold. I like a few 'weeds', milk thistle, plantain (ribbed and wide) sorrel, cuckoo flowers, daisy, cleavers (in the hedges), self-heal and chickweed etc - but not to the extent that the grazing is compromised.
 
We had loads of grass last year but are struggling this year.

Think we have more of an issue of over grazing than anything, although the paddocks where the horses have been rotated round seems to be recovering fairly swiftly.
 
I have plenty for my 3 horses but not loads. It grows a lot faster in the garden than in the shut off fields which the horses have grazed before. It could be that your pasture is a bit horse sick. Also buttercups will mean you have less grass.
 
Very slow growth on the Surrey hills sandy soil. Still haying and 5 are eating a big square bale in 3 days :( . Went 20mins down the road to find knee high grass so must be grass or soil specific. We have tons of blooming ragwort though. Its coming through faster than we can dig it. One lady has removed over 700 plants from her field this year and it was pulled last year but borders the railway line who have "gone green" and won't spray it.
 
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