1-0 Farm Management

• Farm Systems
• Cow Requirements
• Management Tools
• Pastures
• Seasonal Management
• Grass Silage
• Forages
• Feed Budgets and Feed Templates

Farm Systems

• 1-2 Principles of Grazing Management  View PDF (150kb)

Cow requirements

• 1-6 Feed demand information View PDF (57kb)
• 1-7 Feed requirements of milking cows View PDF (50kb)
• 1-8 Feed requirements of dry cows View PDF (49kb)

Management tools

• 1-10 Herd Condition Scoring – A 3-step process View PDF (142kb)
• 1-10a Condition Score Recording Chart  View PDF (23kb)
• 1-12 Spring Rotation Planner - Principles  View PDF (40kb)
• 1-13 First Milking Rotation Planner View PDF (45kb)
• 1-13a Using the Spring Rotation Planner - How to calculate area grazed  View PDF (51kb)
• 1-13b Using the Spring Rotation Planner - How to Allocate Feed  View PDF (53kb)
• 1-14 Pasture Feed Wedges  View PDF (68kb)
• 1-15 Using the Rising Plate Meter (RPM)  View PDF (57kb)

Pastures

• 1-20 How do pastures grow? View PDF (75kb)
• 1-22 Understanding Endophyte View PDF (97.7kb)
• 1-23 Pasture renovation/renewal View PDF (111kb)
• 1-24 Establishing ryegrass containing a novel endophyte View PDF (88kb)
• 1-25 Managing dairy farms profitably with Clover Root Weevil View PDF (42kb)
• 1-26 ProGibb® SG View PDF (144kb)
  

Seasonal management

• 1-30 Summer Management Overview  View PDF (34kb)
• 1-31 Summer Management Plan  View PDF (41kb)
• 1-32 Setting the farm up for a dry summer  View PDF (132kb)
• 1-33 Management in a dry summer  View PDF (40kb)
• 1-34 Summer Nutrition  View PDF (64kb)
• 1-35 Summer Deficit Feed Budget - How Many Cows to Milk  View PDF (40kb)
• 1-36 Strategies to manage low pasture cover at calving  View PDF (136kb)
• 1-37 Surplus Management - Identifying a Surplus  View PDF (97.6kb)
• 1-38 Surplus Management - Options to Manage a Surplus   View PDF (53kb)
• 1-40 Deferred grazing  View PDF (41kb)
  

Grass Silage

• 1-43 Grass silage - The preservation process View PDF (39kb)
• 1-44 Losses when making pasture silage View PDF (44kb)
• 1-45 Analysis of pasture silage View PDF (41kb)
• 1-46 What is high quality pasture silage? View PDF (38kb)
• 1-47 Assessing quantities of silage View PDF (46kb)
  

Forages

• 1-50 Feed values of NZ forages View PDF (38kb)
• 1-51 Purchasing feed for cows View PDF (41kb)
• 1-56 Response from Feeding Supplement in the Autumn View PDF (158 kb)
• 1-60 Mineral supplementation for maize silage View PDF (37kb)
• 1-61 Kiwifruit as stockfeed View PDF (42kb)
• 1-62 Turnips - Growing a high yielding crop View PDF (62kb)
• 1-67 Barkant Turnips - Feeding the crop View PDF (55kb)
• 1-68 Integrating turnips into your farm system View PDF (46kb)
• 1-70 Tapioca View PDF (43kb)
• 1-71  Palm Kernel Extract (PKE)  View PDF (60kb)

Feed Budgets and Feed Templates

• 1-82 Weekly/10 day Feed Budget Template - Working backwards from target  View PDF (100kb)
• 1-83 Weekly/10 day Feed Budget Template - Working forwards from pasture cover on hand  View PDF (100kb)
• 1-84 Average Pasture Cover at Balance Date - How to Calculate  View PDF (188kb)