Maximum benefit will be gained out of these spreadsheets if used in conjunction with Grazetech's Feed budgeting for pastures text book
Paddock Records and Feed Wedge spreadsheet
This spreadsheet enables you to enter your paddock names and their areas and record their pasture covers in kg DM/ha by date. This will generate average farm cover values and feed wedge graphs. By comparing dates, the spreadsheet will calculate average daily daily growth rates for paddocks and the farm.
Simple Pasture Feed Budget Spreadsheet template
This is a simple (one page) pasture feed budget spreadsheet that assists in predicting an average farm cover in kg DM /ha at a future date. Variables such as pasture growth rates, stock numbers, feed consumption and feed supplements can be added.
Pasture Feed Budget Spreadsheet template
This spreadsheet is based on the simple spreadsheet but allows you to enter data for up to 12 consecutive periods. As before is assists in predicting an average farm cover in kg DM /ha at a future date and graphs the results. Variables such as pasture growth rates, stock numbers, feed consumption and feed supplements can be added.
This is particularly useful for forecast pasture feed budgeting and what if scenarios.
Dairy Demo Pasture Feed Budget
This is a working demo of the above Pasture Feed Budgeting Template that uses typical dairy farm data. Do Not use or modify this for your own feed budgets. Rather, start a new budgeting using the Pasture Feed Budgeting Template file from directly above.
Cow production vs days in lactation
This is a spread sheet template that allows you to predict the likely milk production for a dairy cow of a given liveweight and feed intake over different times of her lactation.
Dry stock equivalent (Australian units) stocking rate predictor
For experts only
This spreadsheet uses DSE’s (dry stock equivalents) and their associated DMI’s (dry matter intakes) to generate the likely total demand for feed on the farm for each month.
It also uses PGR’s (pasture growth rates) and farm area to generate the total supply of feed on the farm for each month.
It allows you to alter stock numbers for each DSE class of stock for each month and also the area of available pasture on the farm for each month.
You can also enter target Average Farm Covers for each month.
CWD protocol
This is a protocol for doing a Cut Weigh and Dry of pasture.
It is useful for calibration of pasture measurement devices such as the GrassMasterPro