Dairy NZ

Description: Determine your farm's autumn/winter feed supply and demand with this easy-to-use feed budgeting calculator.

Description: Determine your farm's autumn/winter feed supply and demand with these easy-to-use feed budgeting forms:

Working Backwards -  From Average Pasture Cover Required at Calving.
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Spring or Autumn or Split Calving - From March to Start of Calving or Balance Date.

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Publication Date: June 2008

Description: Pasture management is the cornerstone of profit for all New Zealand dairy farmers. There is potential on all farms to improve pasture management.

Join a DairyNZ Pasture Plus group if you are serious about increasing farm profitability.

Description: DairyNZ has developed this pasture renewal calculator in collaboration with the Pasture Renewal Charitable Trust and Stantiall Keeling & Partners Ltd. This is a tool to evaluate the economic return from pasture renewal. It requires relative yields (old v new pasture) and persistence estimates to be inputted.

To view this calculator click here.

Description: Calculate the wastage of supplement, the return from supplement in Autumn and the profitability of purchasing feed to extend lactation.

Description: Well controlled grazing management in the first 2 months after calving will set your farm up for excellent milk production all the way to Christmas.

The Spring Rotation Planner takes the guesswork out of grazing management over this critical period in the early spring. Use this calculator to design your own planner.

  Online Spring Rotation Planner Calculator (Weekly)

 Spring Rotation Planner Calculator - Table of Area Grazed (Daily)

 Spring Rotation Planner Calculator - Feed Allocator

Description: Calculate your Summer feed budget using this simple form:

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Description: Grass is made up of many different components, each contributing to the nutritional value of the pasture consumed by dairy animals. This poster (best viewed on the attachment hereto) provides a graphical presentation of the makeup of spring pasture.