Is it growing fast or slow? We are past the spring growth phase when you can hear the pasture grow, its shooting up that quick! we are now well into summer growth when determining growth rates is much harder and you are also trying to restore lots more energy into the plants and build a hay stack for the cooler months. This summer has not been easy either, from the point of view of the much cooler temperatures. Local avocado grower are predicting a 50% drop in their crops due to low temperatures and sunlight levels during summer, this has played out in grass growth too. The best way I know of trying to measure pasture growth rates and recovery of plant energy levels to pre-graze levels is with an exclusion area. This can be created with a cage (1000l tank cages are great) or 4 posts and a short piece of tape (depending on how trained your stock are to electric fencing). If you are using temporary fencing just moving one treadin a meter into the paddock where the mob are and then moving the same post a meter back into the next paddock leaves a diamond patch of un-grazed pasture by which to monitor.  This will give you a great guide to pasture growth rates, the more monitoring points you setup the more accurate will be your information. Happy grass growing!

While talking monitoring, isn't the New Year a great time to review your holisticgoal to make sure it refects the life you want to lead for the next year. Unlike the "how to's" of New Year's resolutions, your holisticgoal should suck you along towards what it is you desire.