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Business management
Pasture & grazing management
Livestock management

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Business management

Services

Succession planning – A path to healthy business and family

Tools & resources

MLA cost of production calculator

More Beef from Pastures online manual – Setting directions

Pasture & grazing management

Training activities

Maximising lucerne productivity workshop: Wednesday 23 August, Richmond

Lucerne is a highly nutritious, productive pasture species and is a great choice for finishing livestock, especially in the drier areas of the state. However, it often doesn’t live up to its potential, mainly due to a lack of knowledge and a range of management issues. This workshop covers several practical management topics and provides producers with information on how to maximise the benefits of lucerne in their production systems. Click here for more information.

Pasture Principles: February 2018

Pasture Principles 2017 is underway. To register your interest in the 2018 course intake, please contact Penny Hooper on 0408 948 308 or phooper@macfrank.com.au

Pasture management is the fundamental skill that determines the financial performance of pasture based grazing systems. Managers that exhibit a high degree of pasture management skill are far more profitable than those with less developed skills. The aim of Pasture Principles is to provide sheep and cattle producers with a set of guiding principles that will allow them to manage confidently regardless of the season, situation or system. The program is delivered by Macquarie Franklin over a 12-month period. The next course commences in February 2017.

The key areas covered in the program include:

An understanding of the relationship between plant requirements, leaf emergence rates and pasture growth
Plant morphology and the relationship with pasture quality, pasture quantity and plant persistence
Measuring and predicting pasture growth
Allocation of pasture on a dry matter basis
Variations in pasture quality throughout the season
The relationship between stocking rate and pasture utilisation
Animal requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy and lactation
Feed budgeting
Feed planning
Marginal cost and marginal revenue decisions associated with feeding livestock

For more information about Pasture Principles, click here.