Pasture and feed management:

• Excellent pasture management.
• Sensible fertiliser and manure application.
• Application of manure only when soil temperature exceeds 4 degrees C.
• Measuring and analysing pasture growth.
• Renewing under-performing pasture.
• Use of direct drilled Tetraploid rye grass on dairy platforms.
• Avoiding feed- and nutrient wastage.
• Harvesting and feeding fresh grass inside in late autumn and early winter
• Avoiding soil damage in autumn and spring.
• Excellent forage harvesting and use of support crops.

Stock management:

• Aim for 305 day lactations.
• A balanced feed ration fed to capacity.
• Improved dairy cow transition management.
• Linking cow nutrition to –production through Protrack
• Increasing lifetime per cow production.
• Improvements to the genetic ability (suitability) of our herd.
• Ensuring heifers weigh in at 90 % of their mature weight at first calving.
• Lowering replacement rates through excellent stock management.

Other

• A supporting (manure fuelled) cropping program is run to provide supplementary feed.
• A 100 ha forestry plantation helps to offset any carbon impact of our operation.