Upcoming Focus Days
Next Focus Day- Wed 26 April 2023 - North Rakaia
Next Focus Day is Wednesday 26 April 2023 at Alderbrooke Farm, North Rakaia
Handout from the dayPrevious Focus Days
Focus Day October 2019
Topics Covered:
- Pasture Management
- Mating Without Bulls
- Managing Milk Price Risk
- Pasture Monitoring Systems
- Profitability Benchmarking
Focus Day April 2019
Topics Covered:
- 18-19 LUDF Farm and Financial Performance
- The Hidden Costs of Feeding
- Low Footprint Farming, Impact on Profit
Focus Day February 2019
Topics Covered
- Attracting and Retaining the Best Quality People in the Dairy Industry
- Passing Your Environmental Audit With Flying Colours
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- LUDF On-Farm Update
Open Farm Walk Day October 2018
Open Farm Walk in lieu of LUDF October Focus Day
Topics Covered
- LUDF season to date
- Spring Management After a High Growth Winter
- 39% Ahead of Last Season's Production to-date
- This Season's Mating Plan: No Bulls
Focus Day May 2018
Transforming effluent management:
Hear about an emerging new technology that looks to reduce effluent storage requirements, fresh water use, and environmental & safety risks linked to farm dairy effluent.
As well as the end of season scorecard: Production, profit, InCalf results, calving spread, N-Loss and GHG emissions.
Handout from the dayFocus Day February 2018
Topics Covered
- Forages for Reduces Nitrate Leaching
- Winter crops and standoff areas
- Plantain dominant pasture
- Eating >18,000 kgDM/ha
- Future cuse of dry cow products
- LUDF seasonal update