• Increase the security of Finnish livestock production in the face of increasing risk from extreme weather events.
• Develop solutions for grass silage production that meet the feeding requirements of dairy cattle.
• Develop tools for planning grassland production at field parcel level and targeting inputs to increase resource efficiency.
• Develop and adapt research on project themes at pilot farms in collaboration with research, education and farming partners.

• Gathering grass production data and researching the following topics: grass species and varieties as a source of crop security, extreme weather events (drought and wetness), effects on grass forage quality, nitrogen response functions – cattle slurry and mineral nitrogen fertilisation, and grass yield mapping.
• Conducting dairy cow feeding trials on the following topics: shortened first regrowth interval of grass silage as a harvesting strategy to improve nutrient supply for dairy cows, how to manage dairy cattle indoor feeding period with insufficient grass silage stocks, and improving early lactation energy balance of dairy cows using a high-quality primary growth grass silage.
• Developing and testing farm models for silage production.
• Putting the new knowledge produced by the project into practice through discussion group activities, a pilot farm network and a multi-channel communications campaign. The target groups were dairy and beef farmers as well as professional advisors, educational institutions, companies and policymakers.

In total, there were six discussion groups which came together up to four times a year, and seven dairy farms participating in the project’s piloting activities. The project findings were shared in conference proceedings, professional journal articles, blog posts, etc.

• 42 companies were involved in the project.
• The events organised by the project attracted a total of 1 040 participants.
• Farmers in different regions of Finland have implemented shortened first regrowth intervals on their farms, which is a new silage harvesting resilience strategy.
• The project developed a new agrifood resilience tool for measuring grass yields.
• It also developed a new agrifood resilience tool for estimating silage production costs.

• Close cooperation between research, advisory services, educational institutions and farmers facilitates knowledge exchange and dissemination.
• To ensure successful data transfer, communication and implementation of results, it is necessary to provide enough time.
• It has been gratifying to see that 'Pikkukakkonen', one of the silage harvesting resilience strategies developed by the project, has now become widely adopted.