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Featured · Spring Rotation Planner

A guide with poster to help you monitor and allocate feed through the first rotation

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Featured · Spring Rotation Planner

A guide with poster to help you monitor and allocate feed through the first rotation

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Feed Budgets

Use our Feed Budgets to assess your current situation and guide decisions over the coming days, weeks and months

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Supplement Price Calculator

The supplementary feed price calculator allows you to determine how much you can pay for supplementary feed.

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FeedChecker calculator

The FeedChecker calculator is a robust way to ensure you are optimising feed allocation throughout the year.

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Spring Rotation Planner (printable)

A printed resource to help you monitor and allocate feed through the first rotation. Input your data and then display it for the team to follow during and after calving.

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Spring Rotation Planner (advanced spreadsheet)

A downloadable advanced version of our SRP tool to estimate feed supply and demand for during and after calving.

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Feed budgets

Choose from a one-page Simple Feed Budget Calculator, Simple Feed Budget with Body Condition Score (BCS) Calculator, the Monthly Feed Budget, or Annual Feed Budget.

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Pasture Renewal Guide

Your guide to the establishment and management of persistent, producing pastures. Includes a handy pasture renewal checklist.

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Perennial Ryegrass Grazing Guide

An in-paddock pocket guide to assessing post-grazing residuals, pre-grazing yields and leaf stage of perennial ryegrass.

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Pasture and Crop Eaten Calculator

Calculating your pasture and crop eaten figure. This 5-step assessment allows you to calculate this figure for your chosen season.

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Milk on dry off

The milk on/dry off tool is designed to help test scenarios and make informed decisions around the cost of continuing to milk all or part of the herd into late lactation under a feed shortage situation.

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Pasture Potential Tool

Did you know that an extra tonne of pasture is worth $300 annually? This tool allows you to compare your pasture and crop eaten value with similar farms in your area.

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Feeding Cows in Spring

This booklet contains answers to the frequently asked questions about feeding dairy cows in spring. It is a resource to help farmers make profitable and sustainable feed management decisions on pasture-based farms and has been developed within the FeedRight programme led by DairyNZ’s Dr Jane Kay.

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Improving your wintering system

A successful farm system depends on having the right wintering system in place. Use this guide to evaluate your current system, pinpoint necessary improvements or changes, and create a plan.

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Feed Budget

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Summer management plan

The summer management plan is a useful template for developing your own summer management strategy.

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Perennial Ryegrass Grazing Guide

An in-paddock pocket guide to assessing post-grazing residuals, pre-grazing yields and leaf stage of perennial ryegrass.

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Cultivar Selector Tool

This tool allows you to objectively select the most suitable endophyte and ryegrass cultivar combination for your farm. Select the relevant filters to obtain a list of appropriate cultivars.

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Feed budgets

Choose from a one-page Simple Feed Budget Calculator, Simple Feed Budget with Body Condition Score (BCS) Calculator, the Monthly Feed Budget, or Annual Feed Budget.

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Feeding supplements to dry cows for BCS gain

Table to Calculate Value of Feeding Supplements to Dry Cows for Condition Score (BCS) Gain

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Fodder beet quiz

Fodder beet has a lot to offer when managed correctly. It has a high yield potential and its high energy is great for putting body condition on cows.

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Milk on dry off

The milk on/dry off tool is designed to help test scenarios and make informed decisions around the cost of continuing to milk all or part of the herd into late lactation under a feed shortage situation.

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Pasture Growth Forecaster

The Pasture Growth Forecaster has been further developed commercially and is now Pasture Vibe. The new name reflects the purpose of the tool in helping farmers get in sync with their pastures.

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Pasture Potential Tool

Did you know that an extra tonne of pasture is worth $300 annually? This tool allows you to compare your pasture and crop eaten value with similar farms in your area.

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Pasture and Crop Eaten Calculator

Calculating your pasture and crop eaten figure. This 5-step assessment allows you to calculate this figure for your chosen season.

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Spring Rotation Planner

This online tool takes the guesswork out of grazing management over this critical period in the early spring. Input your data into the 5 steps to assist with your grazing management during and after calving.

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Supplement Price Calculator

The supplementary feed price calculator allows you to determine how much you can pay for supplementary feed.

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Balance Sheet Template

Provides a snapshot of the current financial position. It is one of the major financial statements used by Chartered Accountants, business owners and bankers.

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Bay of Plenty Average Pasture Growth Data

Annual average pasture growth data (kg DM/ha/day) for Bay of Plenty.

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Characteristics of 'Choice' Chicory and 'Tonic' Plantain

Use this guide to help choice between 'choice' chicory or 'tonic' plantain.

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Comparative Stocking Rate Calculator

Instructions on how to calculate your comparative stocking rate

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Comparative Stocking Rate Form

Instructions on how to calculate your comparative stocking rate

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Crops In Rotation Over Five Seasons Austin Monitor Farm

A list of crops in rotation over the years for Eric and Maxine who are arable farmers from Wakanui as part of the FRNL research.

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Crops In Rotation Over Five Seasons Watson Monitor Farm

A list of crops in rotation over the years for Eric and Maxine who are arable farmers from Wakanui as part of the FRNL research.

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Effect of pre-graze mowing on cow and pasture performance

Scientific paper on effect of pre-graze mowing at different pre-graze masses on cow and pasture performance

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Feeding Swedes to Dairy Cows

A guide to feeding swedes to dairy cattle

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