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<blockquote data-quote="Sandpit Farm" data-source="post: 7935107" data-attributes="member: 1646"><p>This is where it is interesting. If you have a cow palace that is relatively new, the depreciation costs require an out put that makes the most of that investment. You end up being tied into those slurry handling and feed mixing costs because you have set the infrastructure around that. Your options end up being cut and carry to maximise forage quality or grazing a low group in the Spring/Summer/Autumn and certainly grazing youngstock in those months.</p><p></p><p>In older, less ideal buildings - which are what many Spring calving farms would be operating with, you have to make the most of the grazing on the shoulders and try to budget to maintain growth and prolong the wedge. That is where the marginal litres would come from surely. The ideal would be to get cows out in February and keep them out until late October (or even November). You save your slurry costs and have lower depreciation costs.</p><p></p><p>I think grass budgeting is useful as you can then plan a multicut system a little better and perhaps use buffer feeding when there is drought or perhaps later in the year when grazed grass quality drops off. </p><p></p><p>Rusty would have a better take on it for an ABC herd</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sandpit Farm, post: 7935107, member: 1646"] This is where it is interesting. If you have a cow palace that is relatively new, the depreciation costs require an out put that makes the most of that investment. You end up being tied into those slurry handling and feed mixing costs because you have set the infrastructure around that. Your options end up being cut and carry to maximise forage quality or grazing a low group in the Spring/Summer/Autumn and certainly grazing youngstock in those months. In older, less ideal buildings - which are what many Spring calving farms would be operating with, you have to make the most of the grazing on the shoulders and try to budget to maintain growth and prolong the wedge. That is where the marginal litres would come from surely. The ideal would be to get cows out in February and keep them out until late October (or even November). You save your slurry costs and have lower depreciation costs. I think grass budgeting is useful as you can then plan a multicut system a little better and perhaps use buffer feeding when there is drought or perhaps later in the year when grazed grass quality drops off. Rusty would have a better take on it for an ABC herd [/QUOTE]
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