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- Feeding Pastures for Profit
- Adaptive Forage Planning
- Perennial Pasture Establishment
- Pasture Consumption Calculator
- Annual and Perennial Pastures Databases
- Arrotas Arrowleaf Clover
- Fertilising Dairy Pastures
- Irrigated Pastures
- Managing Dryland Lucerne
- Curing and Cutting Chaff
- Stacking Sheaf Hay
- Self Feeding Silage
- Hay Preservatives
- What Happens to Hay When it Heats?
- Haystack Fires (Spontaneous Combustion)
- Grasses for Dryland Dairying: Establishment
- Grasses for Dryland Dairying: Management
- Grasses for Dryland Dairying: Species and Cultivars
- Trace Elements for Dryland Pastures
- Forage Cereals
- Dry Matter Content of Conserved Forages: Representative Sampling
- Phosphorus for Pastures
- Pastures for Discharge Areas
- Pastures for Recharge Areas
- Puccinellia Ciliata for the Wimmera
- Native Grasses
- Pasture Health
- Onion Grass (Romulea rosea) - Management in Pastures
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Pastures Management
It’s integral to have a reliable source of feed for dairy herds, and DPI provides tools,
information and services to assist dairy producers successfully produce pastures, hay and silage.
Pastures are an excellent and cheap source of food, while hay and silage are convenient as they can be stored for later use.
For information about other feed sources, read about forage cereals.
Pastures
Starting out, you should think about what type of pasture mixture to grow and perennial pasture establishment.
Find out about the use of phosphorous for pastures.
Read about different varieties of pasture:
Arrotas Arrowleaf Clover, Native grasses, Onion grass, Puccinellia ciliata and Lucerne.
For producers in drier areas, there is specific information about species, checking trace elements, establishing and maintaining grasses for dryland dairying
The Annual and Perennial Pastures Databases provides a thorough list of pasture varieties.
Learn how to look after irrigated pastures.
There is also information about pastures for discharge and recharge areas.
The Pasture Consumption Calculator will help you estimate your herd’s pasture consumption and the feed conversion efficiency.
Ensure the health of your pasture after floods and fire.
Hay
It’s important to be aware of what happens to hay when it heats and haystack fires.
How to take samples from conserved forage to test dry matter content or feed analysis.
Read about the use of hay preservatives.
Learn about stacking sheaf hay.
How to cure and cut hay into chaff.
Silage
Silage is a common feed for many dairy farms, and self feeding silage is a cheap and efficient option.
