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1.0 Farm Management
Farm Systems
Management Tools
- 1-9(a) Standing Cows off - how cows change grazing behaviour
- 1-9(b) Standing Cows off - Impact on pasture intake and milk production
- 1-10 Herd Condition Scoring - A 3-step process
- 1-10(a) Condition Score Recording Chart
- 1-12 Early spring management – principles of the Spring rotation planner
- 1-13 First Milking Rotation Planner
- 1-13(a) Using the Spring Rotation Planner – How to calculate area grazed
- 1-13(b) Using the Spring Rotation Planner – How to allocate feed
- 1-14 Feed Wedges
- 1-15 Using the Rising Plate Meter (RPM)
- 1-16 Pasture (and crop) eaten – how to calculate
Pastures
- 1-20 How do Pastures Grow?
- 1-22 Understanding Endophyte
- 1-23 Pasture Renovation/Renewal
- 1-24 Establishing Ryegrass containing a Novel Endophyte
- 1-26 ProGibb ®SG
- 1-27 High Sugar Grasses
- 1-28 Tall Fescue establishment and management
Pests
Seasonal Management
- 1-30 Summer Management Overview
- 1-31 Summer Management Plan
- 1-32 Setting the Farm up for a Dry Summer
- 1-33 Management in a Dry Summer
- 1-33(b) Dry Summer Management – Culling Cows
- 1-33(c) Dry Summer Management – Milking OAD or every 16 hours
- 1-34 Summer Nutrition
- 1-35 Summer Deficit Feed Budget – How Many Cows to Milk
- 1-36 Strategies to Manage Low Pasture Cover at Calving
- 1-37 Surplus Management - Identifying a Surplus
- 1-38 Surplus Management – Options to Manage a Surplus
- 1-40 Deferred Grazing
- 1-41 Wet weather management plan
- 1-42 Wet weather strategies to minimise pasture and soil damage
Grass Silage
- 1-43 Grass silage – The preservation Process
- 1-44 Losses When Making Pasture Silage
- 1-45 Analysis of Pasture Silage
- 1-46 What is High Quality Pasture Silage?
- 1-47 Assessing Quantities of Silage
- 1-48 Designing silage and feed storage areas
Forages
- 1-50 Feed Values of NZ Forages
- 1-51 Purchasing Feed for Cows
- 1-56 Return from feeding supplement in the Autumn
- 1-60 Mineral supplementation for maize silage
- 1-61 Kiwifruit as Stockfeed
- 1-62 Turnips – Growing a high yielding crop
- 1-67 Barkant Turnips – Feeding the Crop
- 1-68 Integrating Turnips into your Farm System"
- 1-70 Tapioca
- 1-71 Palm Kernel Extract
- 1-72 Chicory – establishment and management
- 1-73 Fodder Beet – Feeding to dairy cows
- 1-74 Kale – growing a high yielding crop
- 1-75 Winter crops – Feeding to dairy cows
- 1-76 Swedes – growing a high yielding crop
- 1-77 Fodder beet – Growing a high yielding crop
Feed Budgets and Feed Templates
2.0 Breeding & Reproduction
3.0 Animals: Health; Welfare; Young Stock
Metabolics
- 3-1 Magnesium Supplementation
- 3-2 Sodium Deficiency in Dairy Cattle
- 3-3 Copper Deficiency in New Zealand Dairy Cattle
- 3-4 Trace Element Supplementation
Facial Eczema
- 3-6 Facial Eczema – Treatment and Prevention
- 3-7 Facial Eczema – Zinc Treatment, Recipes and Dose Rates
- 3-8 Ryegrass Staggers – Management Options
Mastitis
Animal Welfare
Young Stock
- 3-20 Calf Rearing
- 3-21 Feed Requirements of Dairy Calves and Heifers
- 3-22 Achieving target liveweights for young stock
Cow Requirements
4.0 Once-A-Day Milking (OAD)
5.0 Sustainable Dairying Land and Water Management
Managing waterways
- 5-1 Key benefits of managing waterways
- 5-2 Planning and getting started
- 5-3 Fencing
- 5-4 Low planting
- 5-5 Full planting
- 5-6 Controlling weeds and pests
- 5-7 Protecting wetlands and seeps
- 5-8 Constructing and maintaining drains
- 5-9 Sediment traps
Water use
- 5-15 Farm water quantity and quality
- 5-16 Managing for smart water use
- 5-17 Monitoring water use
- 5-18 Farm dairy water use
- 5-19 Farm water reticulation
- 5-20 Factors affecting irrigation needs
- 5-21 Irrigation system design and installation
- 5-22 Managing irrigation practices
- 5-23 Efficient irrigation
Nutrient hotspots
6.0 Effluent Management
Effluent oxidation pond treatment systems
- 6-1 How oxidation ponds work
- 6-2 Sizing oxidation pond treatment systems
- 6-3 Improving effluent oxidation pond performance
- 6-4 Changing from an oxidation pond
Effluent storage ponds
- 6-10 Maintenance tasks for effluent ponds and storage
- 6-11 Effluent storage management
- 6-12 Effluent storage odour management
- 6-13 Designing a storage pond
- 6-14 Effluent pond lining options
- 6-15 Dairy effluent storage calculator
- 6-16 Effluent sumps
Effluent solids
- 6-25 Effluent stone traps
- 6-26 Passive effluent solids separators
- 6-27 Mechanical effluent solids separators
- 6-28 Effluent slurries, sludge and solids spreading
Land application systems
- 6-40 Centre pivot irrigators – measuring application depth and intensity
- 6-41 Travellers – measuring application depth and intensity
- 6-42 Low rate systems – measuring application depth and intensity
- 6-43 Land application systems
- 6-44 Improving travelling irrigator performance
- 6-45 Maintenance tasks for travelling irrigators
- 6-46 Maintenance tasks for low rate irrigators
- 6-47 Maintenance tasks for centre pivots
General
7.0 Fertiliser and Nutrient Management
General
- 7-1 Plant nutrition
- 7-2 Determining nutrient requirements
- 7-3 Soil testing
- 7-4 Pasture testing
- 7-5 Critical nutrient levels for pasture
Fertilisers
- 7-10 Nitrogen fertiliser
- 7-11 Seasonal Nitrogen use
- 7-12 Phosphorus fertiliser
- 7-13 Sulphur fertiliser
- 7-14 Potassium fertiliser
- 7-15 Lime and soil acidity
- 7-16 Nitrogen use going into summer
- 7-17 Nitrogen use after a dry summer
