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Grazing Cereals

Managing complex systems

Preliminary findings from Grain & Graze 2003 to 2008

Grain & Graze aims to offer ideas and ways of thinking about complex issues. This report explores strategic matters of interest to mixed farmers, teasing out the options and exploring how they vary in different circumstances. It doesn’t seek to provide precise answers; it highlights issues and options to be considered and gives more insight into how they can be tackled by individuals seeking to develop solutions to their own unique set of circumstances. (more)...

Grazing Winter Cereals Feed Budget Calculator

This calculator has been developed to assist in developing a grazing plan for grazing winter cereals. The calculator enables two different calculations to be made, either: the number of stock to graze a paddock over a set period of time, or the number of grazing days for a paddock with a set number of animals. The calculator is an Excel Spreadsheet with instructions in a ZIPPED download, which requires Excel, Open Office (more)...

Grazing winter cereals in high rainfall regions

This is a ready reckoner to assist farmers in matching stocking rate to the feed availability. It describes a new way of providing a food supply that was not utilised previously without comprimising the cereal output.