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Using supplements to improve pasture management can maximize dairy farm profits. Supplements should be used to help manage pasture, not just feed cows, by allowing farmers to lengthen rotations, increase stocking rates, facilitate targeted reseeding, and maintain optimal post-grazing residuals. This helps grow more pasture which lowers expenses and increases operating profits per hectare. Properly using supplements in this way can significantly improve pasture quality and quantity to boost milk production and revenues.
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- 1. From Biology to Profit making the farm business work Dairy Business of the Year, June 22nd 2011
- 2. “Insanity: Doing the same thing and expecting a different result” Albert Einstein (1879-1955) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change” Charles Darwin (1809-1882) “If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki (1942-)
- 7. Feed her more Milk Cow A miracle happens Make a profit
- 9. Lower fat%
- 10. No change in protein %
- 12. Lower fat%
- 13. No change in protein %
- 15. As pasture harvest increased,OpEx declined Source: David Beca, Redsky
- 16. Return on assets increases with increase in pasture harvested Source: David Beca, Redsky
- 17. Operating profit/ha vstonnes DM pasture eaten/ha
- 18. Operating profit/ha increases with increasing pasture harvest
- 20. Only Point Supplements should only be used to manage pasture better not to “feed cows better”
- 21. Using supplements to improve pasture management Grow as much pasture as possible Optimum rotation length Targeted re-seeding Optimise soil fertility Targeted use of nitrogen Optimise pasture utilisation Optimum stocking rate Targeted post-grazing residuals Minimise substitution rate
- 22. Using supplements to improve pasture management Grow as much pasture as possible Optimum rotation length Targeted re-seeding Optimise soil fertility Targeted use of nitrogen
- 25. Optimum rotation length Lee et al. 2010
- 26. Optimum rotation length Delay grazing 10-15% 30-40% 45-55% Leaf 4 Leaf 3 Leaf 2 Leaf 1 Lee et al. 2010
- 28. Targeted reseeding Clark et al., 2010
- 29. You can’t manage what you don’t measure! Targeted reseeding ~$33,000/100 ha Clark et al., 2010
- 31. Stocking rate Source: David Beca, Redsky
- 32. Stocking rate Macdonald et al. 2008
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- 36. Maintains optimal post-grazing residuals Reduces pasture growth
- 37. In summary To maximise profit: Use supplements to help manage pasture not to “feed cows better” increase stocking rate and allow greater DIM lengthen the rotation to grow more pasture facilitate targeted reseeding maintain optimum post-grazing residual