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MMFS Module 8: Turn Pasture into Product

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  1. Chapter 8.1 - Know your feed supply

    Key decisions, critical actions and benchmarks
  2. Review annual rainfall patterns
  3. Determine your current pasture growth pattern
  4. Determine variability in your pasture growth
  5. Modify your pasture supply
  6. Deferred grazing through containment feeding
  7. Utilise cereal crops
  8. Chapter 8.2 - Know your animal demand
    Key decisions, critical actions and benchmarks
  9. Estimate feed quality
  10. Estimate pasture mass/feed on offer
  11. Set annual targets for livestock classes and pasture
  12. Assess stock condition
  13. Set trigger points and plan to meet your targets
  14. Monitor your plan
  15. Modify the annual animal demand curve
  16. Time of lambing
  17. Stock sales and purchases
  18. Time of shearing
  19. Chapter 8.3 - Match animal demand to feed supply and minimise risk
    Key decisions, critical actions and benchmarks
  20. Introduction
  21. Plan your feed year
  22. Does pasture supply meet animal demand?
  23. What animal factors can I change?
  24. Complete regular feed budgets (measure and monitor)
  25. Manage the grazing system to control stock intake
  26. Manage the grazing system to maintain optimum pasture levels
  27. Implement tactical grazing
  28. Are paddocks unevenly grazed?
  29. Increase pasture utilisation on part of your property
  30. Plan for drought
MMFS Module 8: Turn Pasture into Product Complete regular feed budgets (measure and monitor)
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Complete regular feed budgets (measure and monitor)

Meat & Livestock Australia January 25, 2022

Use feed budgets to see if you can meet your pasture supply targets (and nutritional demands) for different classes of stock with your current or proposed stocking rate. Feed budgets also answer more tactical (short-term) questions like:

  • How long will a paddock last with a certain number of sheep in it?
  • How many sheep can I graze in a paddock for a certain length of time?

Short term feed budgets (daily, weekly, fortnightly) ensure production requirements can be met for a given stock class. Use the pasture benchmarks in table 8.1 in chapter 8.2 to identify the minimum pasture supply and quality required by your sheep classes.

Calculate a feed budget three months ahead when planning your lambing or weaning paddocks, or for stock marketing (forward contracts).

Doing a feed budget for lambing lets you know if there will be 1,500 kg DM/ha available for lactating ewes, or if you should be taking further action now to meet the nutritional demands of your sheep.

 

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