Focus Days - 30 April 2024 Methven & 1 May 2024 Eyrewell Forest

SIDDC Focus Days were held at Highveld Pastures, Methven on 30 April 2024 and at Waimak Dairies, Eyrewell Forest on 1 May 2024

Topics covered:

> Flexible Milking - (Flo Coetzee from Highveld Pastures & Richard Pearse from Waimak Dairies) > Update on the Reproduction Project

Focus Day July 2008

Topics Covered:

• Making Income Hit the Bottom Line
• Financial results 2007/08: cash operating surplus more than trebles but were opportunities missed?
• 2008/09 Budget dissected - the challenge of controlling costs.
• Operational refinements: irrigation audit/reviewing the runoff
• Greenhouse gases - all hot air or a risk to your business: LUDF case study gives some perspectives

Focus Day May 2008

Topics Covered:

• Will technology take us to a new frontier?
• Reproduction performance
• Protrack at LUDF
• Irrigation - Aquaflex
• Breeding technologies - short gestation and sexed semen
• Nitrate leaching results on LUDF
• Farm automation
• Feed and environment
  

Focus Day February 2008

Topics Covered:

• Pioneer country tamed
• Making stones grow grass
• LUDF Management principles applied to tough dairying land
• Sharemilkers making it work
• Leo Donkers - another two years into the system at Te Pirita

Focus Day October 2007

Topics Covered:

• Tips for managers, skills for staff
• LUDF Update/farm accounts to August
• Pastures for profit
• Mating management
  

Focus Day July 2007

Topics Covered:

• The season @ LUDF vs Budget
• Benchmarks and DairyBase
• Where to next season
• Financial and productivity - 5 years at LUDF
• Back to top
  

Focus Day May 2007

Topics Covered:

Chickens come home to roost!
LUDF Nutrient Management Plan