Tools and calculators

Determine your Cost of Production (CoP) and compare your performance annually.

• Beef, Lamb & Goat CoP

  

• Sheep and Wool CoP

  

• Health Cost Benefit Calculator

  See the benefit of treating a herd for bloat, clostridial diseases and grass tetany.

  

• Calving Histogram Calculator - Cattle

  Measure the performance of your herd management for calving.

  

• Breeder Mortality Calculator

  Determine levels of breeder mortality by using your property records.

  

• BeefSpecs Calculator

  Manage cattle to meet weight and fat specifications.

  

• ParaBoss

  Management of blowflies, worms and lice - Sheep.

  

• Stocking Rate Calculator

  Determine a paddock's carrying capacity for either cattle or sheep.

  

• Feed Demand Calculator

  Understand the pattern of feed supply and demand over a 12 month period.

  

• Rainfall to Pasture Growth Outlook Tool

  Rainfall and indices of soil moisture and pasture growth for the past 9 months and a 3 month outlook used in enterprise planning.

  

• Feed Budget and Rotation Planner

  Calculate stocking rates, pasture growth rates and stock rations then plan your grazing systems.

  

• Pasture Improvement Calculator

  The costs and benefits of resowing pastures to livestock, soils and the environment.

  

• Phosphorus Tool

  How to use soil testing information to plan fertiliser and livestock investments.

  

• Pasture Trial Network

  This tool allows you to assess and compare the performance of more than 100 pasture varieties across the key pasture species for the red meat industry.

  

• FarmGas calculator

  The FarmGAS Scenario Tool is for farmers, researchers and advisors to investigate how different management practices might alter their greenhouse gas emissions profile.

  

• RI Calculator

  The Refrigeration Index (RI) is an index for the log growth of E. coli. It predicts the expected growth of E. coli on meat from temperature and other data.

  

Producers can also use the mobile MSA Index calculator to guide decision making by predicting the impact of production changes on the MSA Index.