Managing your pasture is not rocket science, all the basic operations have been done for hundreds of years. 

Strip feeding will help you manage your pasture better.

Its not just about growing a quantity of grass, but more so what is in the grass you grow.  For stock to stay healthy they have to get all their trace elements, vitamins and minerals from what they eat. If your grass is healthy the stock will also be. 

Calcium Sulphur Phosphate and potash is the base needed for plants to grow. Nitrogen, although needed, only makes the plants grow faster if it has the base to grow from and should be used sparingly as a good clover sward will usually provide enough nitrogen for the grasses. 

Keeping the sward at the optimum length for the best digestibility is not easy, too much stock in winter and not enough in summer (or the other way around in dry summer areas) causes deficits and surpluses.  Break feeding is one answer, contain the stock in a smaller area so they eat it all off, but do not starve them.

Sheep, goats and calves are easily controlled by Fencewright’s Wide spaced Sheep Net, an electric netting specially designed for break feeding.  It is easy to erect and move, and lessens the need for permanent fences. Any surplus grass can then be made into baleage or hay, as you can remove the electric netting and the contractor can get his machinery in.

This will keep your pasture in a good healthy condition which I am certain your livestock will appreciate; remember the saying, “You are what you eat!” This is the way I farm and I have been a farmer and contractor for more years than I can remember.

Good Luck!