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Northern forage budgeting

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  1. Introduction

    Introduction
    1 quiz
  2. Getting started with forage budgeting
    Why is forage budgeting important?
  3. Understanding land condition
    1 quiz
  4. Forage Supply
    What is forage supply?
  5. Pasture cuts and estimations
    1 quiz
  6. Forage Demand
    Why is calculating forage demand important?
  7. AE ratings & calculating forage demand
    1 quiz
  8. Completing a Forage Budget
    Completing a forage budget
    1 quiz
  9. Other tools, technology & resources
    Pasture photo standards
  10. Satellite imagery
  11. Other resources for forage budgeting
    1 quiz
  12. Conclusion
    Conclusion
    1 quiz
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Test your knowledge: Forage demand

Meat & Livestock Australia April 22, 2024
Northern forage budgeting AE ratings & calculating forage demand Test your knowledge: Forage demand

  1. What does AE stand for?

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  2. What is one AE equal to?

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  3. The intake requirements of animals depend on which four factors?

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  4. TRUE or FALSE: Protein supplements (e.g. urea) increase intake.

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  5. If we have 300 steers with an AE rating of 0.78, what is the total number of Animal Equivalents (AE) that we are running?

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  6. Use the below AE table to answer the following 3 questions.

    What is the AE rating for a 1.5-year-old steer in a low productivity area?

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  7. What is the dry matter intake of our steers (aged 1-2, in a low productivity zone)?

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  8. If we have a 1000-hectare paddock which we want grazed over a period of 250 days, what is the total feed demand (kg DM/ha) for the 300 head of steers (individual AE rating of 0.78)?

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