Setting Up For Spring
The soil is getting dry, not quite dry enough to irrigate just yet. Observing paddock 20, which will be grazed soon, it has 2,400 kg DM grass per ha on offer, and it is expected to be grazed down to 1,500 kg DM per ha, so has 900 kg DM per ha available. That amount of grass has grown since the previous grazing, 58 days ago, so the paddock has delivered an average consumption rate of 16 kg DM grass per hectare per day over its growing period. The whole farm analysis of pasture consumption in the table, which is back calculated from milk production and supplement feeding, shows the same consumption rate average for the whole farm.
| FEED MARGIN PERFORMANCE | MDF TEN DAYS AGO | MDF THIS TEN DAYS | Units |
| Ten days to date: | 31-Jul-21 | 10-Aug-21 | |
| Milker graze area | 61 | 58 | Ha |
| Milkers | 110 | 115 | Head |
| Stocking rate | 1.8 | 2.0 | cows/ha |
| Average graze rest time | 60 | 60 | Days |
| Estm’d pasture consmp’n | 13 | 16 | kg DM/ha/day |
| Pasture consum’d per cow | 7.3 | 8.1 | kg DM/cow/day |
| Pasture growing spend | $2.72 | $2.72 | $/ha/day |
| Estm’d pasture price | $207 | $170 | $/T DM |
| Conc (incl additives)supp fed/cow | 5.9 | 5.4 | kg DM/cow/day |
| Conc (incl additives)supp avg price | $417 | $417 | $/T DM |
| Hay/silage supp fed/cow | 0.0 | 0.0 | kg DM/cow/day |
| Hay/silage supp price | $/T DM | ||
| Feed Conversion Efficiency | 99 | 100 | kg MS/tonne DM |
| Total feed intake/cow | 13.0 | 13.3 | kg DM/cow/day |
| NDF Fibre in diet | 28.5% | 29.6% | % NDF |
| Litres/cow | 16.8 | 17.7 | l/cow/day |
| Fat test | 3.85% | 3.85% | % |
| Protein test | 3.86% | 3.75% | % |
| Milk Solids per cow | 1.30 | 1.35 | kg/cow/day |
| Milk price (less levies)/kg MS | $7.10 | $6.41 | $/kg MS |
| Milk price (less levies)/litre | $0.55 | $0.49 | $ per litre |
| Milk income/cow | $9.20 | $8.62 | $/cow/day |
| All feed cost/cow | $3.95 | $3.62 | $/cow/day |
| Margin over all Feed/cow | $5.26 | $5.00 | $/cow/day |
| MOAF /ha /day | $9.48 | $9.92 | $/ha/day |
| Farm MOAF per DAY | $578 | $575 | $/day |