2011 Dairy Feeding Update
This 12 page briefing note, prepared by Dairy Australia's Grains2Milk program, provides an overview of current market conditions and a snapshot of on-farm dairy feeding management practices over the past 12 months.
It includes national and regional data on:
- grain/concentrate feeding rates and
- feeding systems in use,
- feed buying methods and
- transition feeding practices used by Australian dairy farmers.
This year's edition also features information on two key feeding issues:
- Transition feeding and
- Feed conversion efficiency (FCE).
Analysis is drawn from Dairy Australia’s Dairy 2011 Situation & Outlook report and 2011 National Dairy Farmer Survey. This survey is conducted annually in February/March from a random sample of 1,000 dairy farmers stratified across farm size and dairying region.