Feed budgeting for pastures PDF e-book
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Pasture Feed Budgeting Essentials -
A guide to pasture feed budgeting for managers of pasture and grazing animals
These texts have been compiled and written by Roger Martyn, a former farm consultant with 20 plus years specialising in pasture based farm consulting and pasture measurement technology.
This material consists of two booklets.
Booklet One: Pasture Feed Budgeting — Required Reading (152 pages, including appendices) provides a straightforward, minimalist and structured introduction to pasture feed budgeting. It covers the essentials of full forecast pasture feed budgeting, with worked examples in each chapter and a short quiz at the end of each chapter to reinforce understanding.
Table of contents booklet 1
Sample Chapter booklet 1 -What is Dry Matter?
Booklet Two: Pasture Feed Budgeting Essentials — Background
Reading (162 pages including the same appendices) is a companion to Booklet One. Its six chapters explore selected aspects of pasture feed budgeting, ruminant nutrition, plant biology and pasture management in greater depth, allowing readers to explore the finer points associated with pasture feed budgeting if they wish.
Table of contents booklet 2
This additional detail is kept separate from the Required Reading to avoid burdening readers with ancillary information or distracting them from learning the core principles and practical skills.
Table of Contents Booklet one 'Pasture Feed Budgeting — Required Reading'
Introduction
Chapter 1: Pasture Feed Budgeting — What Is It and Why Do We Do It?
Chapter 2: (Pasture) Dry Matter — What It Is and How to use it
Chapter 3: Pasture DM Feed Requirements of Grazing Animals
Chapter 4: Pasture Area — Simple Ways to Calculate It
Chapter 5: Pasture Growth Rates — How to Calculate and Record
Chapter 6: Pasture Allocation — The How-To's.
Chapter 7: Pasture Feed Wedges
Chapter 8: What Is an "Average Farm Cover"? How Can We Use AFC Data?
Chapter 9: Calculating Grazing Rotation Lengths
Chapter 10: Pasture Surpluses and Deficits — Identifying and Dealing with them.
Chapter 11:Accounting for Feed Wastage in Pasture Budgeting
Chapter 12: Forecast Feed Budgeting for Pastures
Chapter 13: Pasture Measurement.
Chapter 14: Record Keeping — What to Record and When
Further Reading: The Background Reading Companion
Glossary of Terms
List of Abbreviations
List of Appendices
Appendix 1 - Average daily pasture growth rates - New Zealand- source Beef & Lamb New Zealand
Appendix 2 - Average daily pasture growth rates - New Zealand- source NZ Dairy
Appendix 3 - Average daily pasture growth rates Australia - Source PROGRAZE®
Appendix 4 - Tasmanian monthly growth rates DAIRY
Appendix 5 - Feed-stuff values – DM%, ME, CP, NDF, SSS, Starch, Fat
Appendix 6 - feed-stuffs - DM% and ME only
Appendix 7 - Estimated Yields of Forage Crops
Appendix 8 - Wet & dry weights for common dimension forms of Hay and Silage
Appendix 9 - Wastage estimates of some commonly fed supplements
Appendix 10 - A Cut Weigh and Dry (CWD) protocol for estimation of pasture dry matter per hectare (kgDM/ha)
Appendix 11 - Pasture Covers photo gallery
Appendix 12 - Total daily dry matter requirements lactating cows (kgDM/cow/day)
Appendix 13 - Annual pasture Dry Matter requirements for lactating Dairy cows
Appendix 14 - Daily energy requirements of lactating dairy cows for different activities.
Appendix 15 - Feed requirements for a Dry dairy cow - maintenance & pregnancy demand
Appendix 16 - Dairy Young Stock Feeding Requirements
Appendix 17 - Daily nutrient requirements of large breed cows
Appendix 18 - Metabolisable energy requirements (MJ/day) of cattle for maintenance and growth
Appendix 19 - kgDM requirements for the maintenance and live-weight gain of mature ewes
Appendix 20 - Feeding Requirements for Deer
Appendix 21 - New Zealand Stock Unit System
Appendix 22 - The Australian Stock Unit System
Appendix 23 - Further reading and feed-budgeting resources
Table of Contents Booklet two 'Pasture Feed Budgeting — Background Reading'
Glossary of Terms
List of
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Photosynthesis – the source of all biological life
Chapter 2 Animal Nutrition
Chapter 3 The Digestive System of Ruminants and other Grazing Animals
Chapter 4 The 'two and a half leaf 'approach to pasture assessment, management and feed budgeting
Chapter 5 Stocking rate – how to determine and use
Chapter 6 Planned (Holistic) Grazing-What is it?
Appendices (the same appendices as for Booklet 1 - required reading)