Agrinet grass software for sheep and beef.

[Jmorrow]

Thinking of starting to measure grass with agrinet grass software at the main farm.
Hopefully it will help with magement decision such as when to take out paddocks for silage to keep quality swards and which fields need reseeded etc.
The problem is with 50 paddocks, 6 mobs of sheep and 3 mobs of cattle would the software work with this many mobs.
Does any sheep and beef farmers who rotationally graze sheep and cattle have any experience of using this software and measuring grass or any advice?

 

[Dairyfarmerswife]

It definitely does allow different mobs. I dont often use the mob settings but I think you can allocate mobs to different groups of paddocks. We use it for dairy and provided you are disciplined enough to measure regularly it's very useful. I can't remember seeing sheep and beef cattle on it but perhaps just because I've never needed them!

 

[dairyrow]

Thats a nightmare. I'd join some mobs together. Have a look at precision graze thing. Their program worked ouyt the short falls as well. They were running 32 day rotations.

 

[Jmorrow]

Thats a nightmare. I'd join some mobs together. Have a look at precision graze thing. Their program worked ouyt the short falls as well. They were running 32 day rotations.

Thats the min amount of mobs that we can have, its about half what we had before we started rotationally grazing.
Sheep mobs are: 2 groups of singles ewes, 2 groups of double ewes and 2 groups of creep fed ewe lambs/problems. 2 groups of each as we can't handle anymore in a mob due to our size of handling system and two different lambing periods due to our housing facilties
Cattle:heifers, bullocks and calves. Which are so much easily manged with rotationally grazing.