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Featured · Spring Rotation Planner

A guide with poster to help you monitor and allocate feed through the first rotation

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Featured · Spring Rotation Planner

A guide with poster to help you monitor and allocate feed through the first rotation

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Feed Budgets

Use our Feed Budgets to assess your current situation and guide decisions over the coming days, weeks and months

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Supplement Price Calculator

The supplementary feed price calculator allows you to determine how much you can pay for supplementary feed.

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FeedChecker calculator

The FeedChecker calculator is a robust way to ensure you are optimising feed allocation throughout the year.

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Nutrition

Spring Rotation Planner (printable)

A printed resource to help you monitor and allocate feed through the first rotation. Input your data and then display it for the team to follow during and after calving.

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Spring Rotation Planner (advanced spreadsheet)

A downloadable advanced version of our SRP tool to estimate feed supply and demand for during and after calving.

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Feed budgets

Choose from a one-page Simple Feed Budget Calculator, Simple Feed Budget with Body Condition Score (BCS) Calculator, the Monthly Feed Budget, or Annual Feed Budget.

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Pasture Renewal Guide

Your guide to the establishment and management of productive and persistent new pastures.

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Perennial Ryegrass Grazing Guide

An in-paddock pocket guide to assessing post-grazing residuals, pre-grazing yields and leaf stage of perennial ryegrass.

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Pasture and Crop Eaten Calculator

Calculating your pasture and crop eaten figure. This 5-step assessment allows you to calculate this figure for your chosen season.

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Milk on dry off

The milk on/dry off tool is designed to help test scenarios and make informed decisions around the cost of continuing to milk all or part of the herd into late lactation under a feed shortage situation.

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Pasture Potential Tool

Did you know that an extra tonne of pasture is worth $300 annually? This tool allows you to compare your pasture and crop eaten value with similar farms in your area.

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Herbicide Products for Giant Buttercup

A list of product names of pasture herbicides with activity against giant buttercup.

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Kikuyu Management Guide

How to manage Kikuyu in your farm system and maximize profitability.

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Lessons from swedes disease outbreak

In 2014, dairy farmers encountered high incidences of illness and death in cattle grazing on swedes. DairyNZ scientists explain the findings.

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Management Practices for Forage Brassicas

Use this guide for the establisment, management and feeding of common brassicas, included are swedes, kale, rape, turnips and leafy turnips.

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Management of Chicory Crops

Management of Choice chicory special-purpose crop first- and second-year crop management.

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Managing feed through heavy snow conditions

Here is some key information which will help you manage feed through tough winter weather

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Milk On or Dry Off Calculator

Test scenarios and make informed decisions around the cost of continuing to milk all or part of your herd into late lactation under a feed shortage situation.

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Mowing Cost Calculator

Use this tool to calculate the cost of pre-graze mowing

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North Island Average Pasture Growth Data

Annual average pasture growth data (kg DM/ha/day) for North Island.

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Northland Average Pasture Growth Data

Annual average pasture growth data (kg DM/ha/day) for Northland.

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Pastoral 21: Canterbury Site Summary

The aim of the Canterbury trial was to increase production, increase operating profit, reduce nitrate leaching, and hold P leaching losses.

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Pastoral 21: Manawatu Site Summary

The aim of the Manawatu trial was to increase MS production, increase operating profit, and reduce N and P losses.

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Pastoral 21: Otago Site Summary

The aim of the South Otago trial was to increase MS production, increase operating profit, and reduce N and P losses.

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Pastoral 21: Waikato Site Summary

The aim of the Waikato trial was to increase milksolids, increase operating profit, and decrease N leaching.

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Pasture And Grazing Management: Pastoral 21

A ‘low N input, high efficiency’ (future approach) was tested in Waikato and Canterbury. This document summarises the experiences and results of these sites.

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Pasture Damage Score Guide

A visual assessment guide which provides an alternative way to compare paddocks for renewal or maintenance such as fertiliser, under or oversowing.

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Pasture Road Map

Use this template to work backwards from balance date, when pasture supply is equal to demand, to autumn, to create a management plan for the year.

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Perennial Ryegrass Sowing Rate

Use this resource to find out what is the 'correct' perennial ryegrass sowing rate.

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Plantain Dairy Grazing Management

A guide to managing plantain for dairy farm grazing.

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Plantain Visual Assessment Data Collection Template

This simple Excel template can be used to keep record of visual assessments conducted on farm.

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Pre Graze and Pasture Perfomance Poster

An overview of results from the research trial: Effect of pre-graze mowing at different pre-graze masses on cow and pasture performance.

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Quick Feed Budget

A great template for new team members to do a quick feed budget calculation.

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Rathgen Crop Rotation Over Four Seasons

A list of crops in rotation over the years as part of a network of farmers in Canterbury who contributed to the direction of the FRNL research.

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Sequence Cropping Kale And Oats

Using a winter 'catch crop' of oats after a kale crop to reduce nitrogen leaching.

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