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Grass growth and harvest takes off as weather picks up

Grass growth has taken off with warmer weather over the past month after a chilly winter throughout the district.
Silage cuts at farms are in full swing ahead of the hay harvest over the next couple of months.
Growing conditions have been ideal despite below average rainfall recorded at Warragul and the Bureau of Meteorology's weather station at Nilma North.

Warragul recorded 86.6 millimetres of rain in October and Nilma North 74.4 millimetres, some 30 to 40 millimetres below the 115 year average for the month. Almost 60 millimetres of the total came in two 24-hour periods.
At Nilma North the thermometer topped 20 degrees on 11 days with a maximum daily temperature of 29.9 degrees.
The Bureau's outlook through to the end of January for most of Victoria is rain is likely to be in the typical range for the period, about 230 millimetres in West and South Gippsland.
There is a 60 to 80 per cent chance that temperatures will be above average.

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