when growth is plentiful and reasonably reliable; Be able to rapidly reduce demand during periods of high variability in pasturegrowth; Have a high proportion of demand in animal maintenance and have less reliance of generating revenue when pasture quality
the pasture is growing (pasturegrowthrate) to know how long the flock can graze ... in 2002 when usually it would only run 11-12 dse/ha. Last year the pasturegrowthrate ... My experience with satellite predicted estimates of feed on offer and pasturegrowthrates
and per hectare are provided for a range of pastures and crops in Table 1.5. ... Table 1.5 Estimated beef production from silages produced from various pastures and crops harvested at a high quality stage of growth.* Silage yield (t DM/ha) Pasture ... crop (irrigated) * Estimates based on a range of agronomic and animal production
again. 12. Our target growthrate over the last two weeks was estimated to be 45 ... Depending on how growthrates track over this time we will either be able to slow down ... Digestibility 14. Pasturegrowth this week was 43kg DM/ha/day. Below is a graph
pasturegrowthrates (Parsons 1994). Therefore for the paddocks grazed within 3 days ... of growthrate is achieved when the grazing date and residual option in Pasture Coach ... the estimatedgrowthrate for the calculation of annual DM yield (Table 2): Adj GR = (1+
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..................................14 Otakanini Data Below are monthly pasturegrowthrates for a Redhill sand ... The average estimate of winter production is 1870kg pasture dry matter per ha ... of indicator paddocks is needed to determine actual pasturegrowth for that period
‘Safe’ carrying capacity estimates were also available for 46 pasture communities in Queensland (Tothill and Gillies 1992). These estimates for pastures in good ... to the 12 regions in Queensland (Table 1.3). Average pasturegrowth for each region ... ) and simulation results for 12 regions of Queensland. The pasturegrowth data are that from: a) the GRASP pasturegrowth model using climate data from the climate station; or 2) the Aussie GRASS spatial pasturegrowth model of Carter et al. (1998) averaged across
2001) and tropical pastures (Giller 2001); however, comparative estimates of N2 ... A summary of the range of measures of N2 fixation obtained for commonly studied forage ... of fixed N in pastures systems par the turnover and decomposition of nodulated roots
of phosphorus, sulfur and nitrogen. When establishing a new pasture the use of a compound ... levels should not exceed 20 kg N/ha. Rates of nutrients to apply will depend on soil ... to maximise production. Fertiliser rates can then be reduced to maintenance dressings