If the first four months of the year are anything to go by, 2025 is shaping up to be a more ‘normal’ grass-growing season than in recent years. This time last year, farms were starved of grass and there was silage being fed on most dairy farms, as there had been all spring. If anything, 2025 has been abnormal in the sense that it was very dry throughout February, March and early April, with more normal April weather returning over the last 10 days. The priorities over the next four or five months must be to maximise the amount of grass grown on farms and converting that grass to milk solids or silage.