Pasture Feed budgeting spread sheet templates

This is a downloadable e-version of  a suite of simple yet powerful Excel 2003+ compatible spreadsheet templates for paddock records, feed wedges and full forecast feed-budgets. Readers can use and adapt these for use on their own farms.

Formulated by a farm consultant with 20 plus years experience in pasture and animal grazing management and measurement, these simple to use spreadsheets will allow you to keep paddock records, calculate paddock and farm average pasture growth rates, calculate average farm covers, generate paddock and pasture cover feed wedges, and forecast feed budget for up to 12 periods.

Simple 'farm set up' feature for forecast feed budget allows users to adapt spread sheets to any stock type - default stock classes are dairy, simply over-write with these with your own. Forecast feed budget setup also includes a facility to account for utilisation factors of pasture and feed supplements. Use the defaults or input your own.

These spreadsheets are a great tool for those wishing to learn how to learn feed budgeting and a greater primer for those considering purchasing more expensive proprietary pasture feed budgeting, which is often initially difficult to understand and set up if you don't really understand what is going on.