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MMFS Module 8: Turn Pasture into Product
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Chapter 8.1 - Know your feed supply
Key decisions, critical actions and benchmarks -
Review annual rainfall patterns
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Determine your current pasture growth pattern
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Determine variability in your pasture growth
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Modify your pasture supply
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Deferred grazing through containment feeding
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Utilise cereal crops
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Chapter 8.2 - Know your animal demandKey decisions, critical actions and benchmarks
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Estimate feed quality
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Estimate pasture mass/feed on offer
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Set annual targets for livestock classes and pasture
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Assess stock condition
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Set trigger points and plan to meet your targets
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Monitor your plan
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Modify the annual animal demand curve
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Time of lambing
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Stock sales and purchases
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Time of shearing
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Chapter 8.3 - Match animal demand to feed supply and minimise riskKey decisions, critical actions and benchmarks
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Introduction
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Plan your feed year
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Does pasture supply meet animal demand?
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What animal factors can I change?
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Complete regular feed budgets (measure and monitor)
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Manage the grazing system to control stock intake
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Manage the grazing system to maintain optimum pasture levels
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Implement tactical grazing
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Are paddocks unevenly grazed?
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Increase pasture utilisation on part of your property
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Plan for drought
Decisions about timing of lambing and stock sales have an impact on shearing time, and timing of shearing can have important consequences for wool quality. It is important to consider your whole management calendar when planning key operation which impact the profitability and productivity of your enterprise.