Pasture Principles | Naracoorte
Program Overview:
Pasture management is the fundamental skill that determines the financial performance of pasture based grazing systems. Managers that exhibit a high degree of pasture management skill are far more profitable than those with less developed skills.
The aim of Pasture Principles is to provide producers with a set of guiding principles that will allow them to manage confidently regardless of the season, situation or system. The program was developed by Basil Doonan, Principal Consultant at Macquarie Franklin, Tasmania, in conjunction with valuable input from a range of experienced individuals.
Program Content:
The program is suitable for livestock producers involved in the sheep, dairy and beef industries. The key areas covered in the program are:
- An understanding of the relationship between plant requirements, leaf emergence rates and pasture growth
- Plant morphology and the relationship with pasture quality, pasture quantity and plant persistence
- Measuring and predicting pasture growth
- Allocation of pasture on a dry matter basis
- Variations in pasture quality throughout the season
- The relationship between stocking rate and pasture utilisation
- Animal requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy and lactation
- Feed budgeting
- Feed planning
- Marginal cost and marginal revenue decisions associated with feeding pasture
Location & date:
Naracoorte Hotel Motel Function Room; 73 Ormerod Street, Naracoorte SA
Wednesday 12 and Wednesday 19 October 2016
More information:
The commercial cost of this program is $2,275 (GST exc) per business, for up to 2 participants per business.
More Beef from Pastures and Making More from Sheep will co-invest reducing the cost of the program to $1,850 (GST exc) per business.
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RSVP by contacting Rural Directions Pty Ltd on P: 08 8841 4500
or E: admin@ruraldirections.com
