Events

Next Focus Day- Monday 19 June 2023 @ 2.00pm - Ashburton Event Centre

Next Focus Day is on Monday 19 June at the Ashburton Event Centre, Ashburton from 2.00pm to 4.30pm. Refreshments and registration on arrival.

Dairy farmers, owners, managers, staff, and dairy industry professionals are invited to come along and hear about how LUDF decreased its empty rate from 20% last season, to just 12% this season using collars/ intervention and a longer mating period.

In addition we will be comparing and diving further into the results from tests and measurements taken at both LUDF and Liam Kelly's farm in the 2022/23 mating period to see what improvements can be made on LUDF to obtain an even lower empty rate next season. This includes nutritional information and feeding allocation, differences in rumination, NEFA test results and milk protein measurements.

Click link for further details: SIDDC LUDF Focus Day Flyer 19 Jun23

Focus Day July 2016

Topics Covered:

• 2015/16 Profitability Comparison
  • Over 1800kgMS/ha and 520kgMS/cow with only 126 kgDM imported feed/cow.
  • Farm working expenses below $3.50/kgMS.
  • What are the drivers behind these results?
  • Did changes made at LUDF this season put them at the top of the profitability comparison?
  • What further adjustments are these farms implementing next season?

Focus Day May 2016

Topics Covered:

• Where next? (Survival 2015/16, Sustainable 2016/17
• Farm Working Expenses
• Implementing Low Imput System
• Farm performance this season
• WorkSafe - Keep Safe, Keep Farming

Focus Day February 2016

Topics Covered:

• Bounce Forward - Resilient and Ready for the Upside
• Matching Feed Supply and Demand with less inputs
• Environmental Changes - constraints or opportunities?
• Using Technology to reduce costs / maximise production

Focus Day October 2015

Topics Covered:

• Re-jigging the system to maintain viability
• Pasture Management; and
• Launch of the Sustainable Dairying - Workplace Action Plan

Focus Day July 2015

Topics Covered:

• Pushing For Profit
• LUDF Financial Benchmarking
• DairyNZ Tactics for Tight Times

Focus Day May 2015

Topics Covered:

• LUDF 2014/15 Scorecard
• Profitability............................................................. B+
• Estimated N-Leaching............................................ A+
• Cost Control........................................................... A+
• Lessons learnt from 2014/15 Season and revised plan for 2015/16
• + Mating analysis – understanding the decline in 6 week InCalf
• + ECAN Variation 1 – Summary of Regulatory Changes.