The important physical targets that drive the feed margin (milk per cow and grass per hectare) are both meeting, or exceeding, the targets we set 12 months ago. But the financial target (feed margin, $1,636) is not being achieved because we thought that we would be feeding our own (cheaper) conserved silage and not the higher priced silage we’ve had to buy. MDF Fortnightly Update 495 2019-05-24
Dairy Research Farm demonstrating best management practice
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The Macalister Research Farm, known as the Macalister Demonstration Farm since 2008, is a farmer-owned co-operative that was established on April 13th 1960. The brief was to acquire a commercial dairy farm on which systems of farming that had the … Read More