Two key contributors to farm profit are home grown feed production and consumption, and efficient use of supplementary feeds. These are the main focus of the Feeding for Profit program.

The program starts by building a shared understanding of farming systems This provides an opportunity to examine your own business and explore the question am I confident with the big settings that I have in place?. These settings include use of available land and water, herd size, investment in farm infrastructure, and milk production levels.

The program delivers the latest information on grazing guidelines for main pasture and crop types and follows on to provide a unique and practical approach to managing grazing rotations. The simple and effective customized Rotation Right tool is provided to each participant. This practical approach to grazing allows you to pro-actively manage both rotation length and daily pasture allocation to the herd in order to optimize pasture harvest. You dont need a plate meter but achieve a similar level of control.

There is a practical emphasis on farm layout and paddock size required for profitable grazing control and even feed allocation. Recent advancements clearly indicate that paddock size can play a key role in managing flatter milk production and getting pasture residuals right more often.

The peg system is introduced, and this greatly simplifies the challenge of working out where the herd should graze next and as importantly can help with the challenge of establishing a rotation when the season breaks, and identifying the true farm surplus in spring.

There are many debates about production per cow and profit. The Feeding for Profit program takes the mystery away by going back to the basics, and provides simple, practical tools that give you the confidence to decide how much supplement to offer the herd each day - and how to measure (quantify) that you have got this key decision right.

The program is targeted at farm owners and/or farm managers that are in control of the grazing and feeding decisions, or those taking on more of these decisions.

Participants will learn via 2 classroom days and 4 on-farm sessions, focusing on local pasture and grazed forages.

Day 1 & 2 are in classroom theory days and will be held on Tuesday 3rd March & Wed 4h March.

The first in field day will be held on the 17th of March (farm to be confirmed).

Future dates and locations (1 day per season) will be confirmed as the course progresses.

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Feeding Pastures For Profit- South Coast