tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227507713475561895.post7661933853259597323..comments2023-12-22T08:42:06.087+00:00Comments on Pasture to Profit: If You Don’t Measure You Can’t Control...Basic Pasture Management!Pasture to Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918321236101650313noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227507713475561895.post-47067897301087492722014-10-29T09:01:09.629+00:002014-10-29T09:01:09.629+00:00Hi
Check out www.grassco.co.nz we are the pasture ...Hi<br />Check out www.grassco.co.nz we are the pasture measuring specialists. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00004342824936572754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227507713475561895.post-32319580173144078312013-03-25T21:07:10.592+00:002013-03-25T21:07:10.592+00:00Great comments
I'd like to suggest a couple of...Great comments<br />I'd like to suggest a couple of other reasons why there is a low uptake on pasture measurement and pasture feedbudgeting.<br />1) It is hard to 'commercialise' compared to something like a total mixed ration feedstuff. ie, there is not the incentive for commercial interests to promote the process. In this instance, it is being left up to the consulting officers.<br />2) It involves a bit of cerebal thinking. This is a major criticism I have many farmers. They don't like to involve themselves in things that require calculations and thinking. Pasture measurement and feedbudgeting is very difficult to do succesfully unless the pasture/herd manager is intimately involved in the process themselves - there are just to many variables and management decisions they must be involved in to get a meaningful outcome. Don't believe me? Am I being too hard on our good farming folk? OK, at a farm discussion group or field day, how many farmers do you ever see taking notes? This is totally indicative of most farmers attitudes to aspects of farming that require some sort of academic self discipline. Future generations might be different but this is not being helped by farming employers who are increasingly reluctant to send employees to discussion groups because it's not making them money. Roger Martynhttp://www.grazetech.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227507713475561895.post-84058706416814283782012-03-14T20:55:21.125+00:002012-03-14T20:55:21.125+00:00Thank you for your comments which I agree with. On...Thank you for your comments which I agree with. On most NZ farms pasture is at least 75% of the cows diet & even on the high input systems its likely to still be 50%. People know exactly how much PKE they have contracted to buy & what maize silage they have purchased (both of which currently cost about 25c/kg DM plus)yet they are not measuring nor monitoring pasture their most valuable low cost feed input????? At the moment countless North Island herds are feeding out silage or PKE because milk is falling. If they looked at the pasture quality (or dealt with it at every grazing..residuals)the answer is obvious.Feeding quality pasture has to be the prefered & most profitable option.Pasture to Profithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09918321236101650313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227507713475561895.post-8163818509006481672012-03-14T06:06:02.334+00:002012-03-14T06:06:02.334+00:00You will find farmers trained in the 1980-90 have ...You will find farmers trained in the 1980-90 have a very good understanding of pasture growth and quality. If they have been farming their places a long time they will have a very good haulistic knowledge of their farms parameters and hence have a good knowledge of supply and demand. I have deep concern about many young farmers today who are using other feeds to prop up production at a cost to poor management.The high payouts have given the ability to put something into the system to gain a suposed profit. They are being sold bogus ideas from bogus people all trying to milk the dairy farmer. This year in spring i witnessed an operation that was feeding PKE and topping grass as we walked through rank grass that was sown last year.<br />I have warned these new generation farmers that the payouts will drop at some point and they will have to wise up and become efficient. There is nothing like having a big monkey of debt biting at you to make you become efficient i think some kiwi farmers have become too complacent and cant see the finacial losses there making because they don't see them in the vat and never bother to analyse thier accounts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com