Our Strategy
​We want to be good stewards of People, Planet and Profits
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Excellent pasture management.
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Sensible fertiliser and manure application.
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Application of manure only when soil temperature exceeds 6 degrees C.
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Measuring and analysing pasture growth.
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Renewing under-performing pasture.
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Avoiding feed- and nutrient wastage.
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Harvesting and feeding fresh grass inside in late autumn and early winter
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Avoiding soil damage in autumn and spring.
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Excellent forage harvesting and use of support crops.
Feed Management
Stock Management
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Aim for 305 day lactations.
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A balanced pasture based feed ration fed to capacity.
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Improved dairy cow transition management.
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Improving animal care and -monitoring with the help of CowManager technology
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Linking cow nutrition to –production through Protrack
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Increasing lifetime per cow production.
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Improvements to suitability of our herd to our farming systems.
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Ensuring heifers weigh in at 90 % of their mature weight at first calving.
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Lowering replacement rates through excellent stock management.
Environmental Management
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An efficient cropping program- recycling nutrients- is run to provide supplementary feed.
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A 100 ha forestry plantation helps to offset the carbon impact of our operation.
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Wintering Barns eliminate the need for winter crops
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We manage Nitrogen carefully to minimize the impact on our waterways
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We try to avoid soil compaction to reduce overland flow and Phosphorous loss