{"id":3017,"date":"2020-02-19T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-dev.promar-international.com\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2020-02-19T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:30:00","slug":"obsessive-compulsive-farming-drives-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-dev.promar-international.com\/it\/obsessive-compulsive-farming-drives-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessive compulsive farming drives profits: Grass growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Victoria Craig-McFeely<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having spent some of my career in New Zealand on a dairy farm I have had the opportunity to fully understand their concepts and why they do what they do. \u00a0Everyone knows they show a huge amount of due diligence towards their grazing management.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have taken a simple practice and utilised it to its full potential. Like the Sky cycling team they live and breathe the notion of \u201cthe aggregation of marginal gains\u201d, it is this obsessive attention to detail that drives success. We can see it working in a low-cost system but the philosophy can be applied everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obsessive attention to grass growth, consumption and\nreserves enables them to deliver the right amount and quality of feed the stock\nneed when they need it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent some of my time out there walking paddocks using a\nplate meter to measure the grass growth and the DM available. The data\ngenerated a grazing wedge, which dictated the rotation of the paddocks for the\nfollowing week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dependant on grass growth, each paddock would be split using\nelectric fencing giving enough grazing for a 12-hour window while aiming for a\nresidual of 1500. If residuals were not achieved, then cows were sent back\nafter milking to hit the target residual. Back fencing and creating walkways within\nlarger paddocks were used to prevent soiling, trampling and to allow for regrowth.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grazing isn\u2019t the answer for every farm. Neither necessarily\nis any other system. What does matter is the attention given to delivering feed\nin the most efficient way possible. On the best New Zealand farms every effort\nis directed towards the continual supply of highly digestible grass to the\ngrazing animal within an acceptable tolerance of waste. This clarity of focus\nis the formula of success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my clients I like to identify the top two or\nthree things to focus on in order to build a successful business. With a client\nlast week we decided the focal point for farm success would be achieving a 24%\npregnancy rate, a daily output of 32 litres per day at a maximum feed rate of\n0.34Kg\/l. The next, really exciting bit of my job, is working closely with my\nclient to build the plan of activity that will deliver these results. Doing\nthis doesn\u2019t guarantee we will hit those goals but it does make it a lot more\nlikely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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