Pasture Principles – A Practical Pasture Management Workshop | Keith, SA

The aim of the Pasture Principles workshop is to provide producers with a set of guiding principles that will allow them to manage confidently regardless of the season, situation or system.

The key areas covered in the program are:

• an understanding of the relationship between plant requirements, leaf emergence rates and pasture growth
• plant morphology and the relationship with pasture quality, pasture quantity and plant persistence
• measuring and predicting pasture growth
• allocation of pasture on a dry matter basis
• variations in pasture quality throughout the season
• the relationship between stocking rate and pasture utilisation
• animal requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy and lactation
• feed budgeting and planning
• marginal cost and marginal revenue decisions associated with feeding pasture.