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Farmers rely on grazing pastures as their primary source of feed for their livestock. Accurate and timely pasture biomass is integral for effective grazing management practice, however few farmers record pasture mass or growth rates objectively. Keeping that in view, a system using satellite images has been developed to measure pasture biomass at a paddock-scale in Australia. The system has borne fruit in empowering farmers to be the best at what they do with leading agtech.

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Pasture.io's satellite-powered, remote automated pasture management platform has optimized decision making on many farms across Australia, New Zealand, the US, and the UK. Pasture.io's pasture management technology leverages satellite imagery, weather data, and farming records in a machine-learning environment to enable farmers to make daily tactical decisions and optimize their farm resources with ease.

Pasture focus key to surviving volatility

Australia and New Zealand are known as predominantly pasture-based dairy systems. This is due to our unique geographical position of growing perennial pastures such as ryegrass and kikuyu. In a recent study by Beukes et al. (2018), a group of New Zealand researchers modelled the difference between actively managing pasture with measurements as opposed to using your eye could yield approximately $40,000 to $60,000 in profit on 100 grazeable hectares.

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TIA ran a project encouraging farmers to measure and monitor pasture and asked the farmers how they would want the information displayed. Some opted for spreadsheets, others for a feed wedge graph. Stuart Burr chose an online platform Pasture.io "The first year we found it a bit tough to analyse the data to make good changes," he says. "The more we've used it the more we've been able to make better decisions earlier. Our cows are milking better because they are getting better grass allocations."

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My vision is to develop the dairy complex to that of a world renowned operation attaining high levels of prestige and promoting a culture of developing best practice for the industry to follow. On farm achievements to date since starting with the University of Sydney has been with an increase in animal and farm productivity in a short amount of time.

Tasmanian Dairy Business of the Year

Utilising pasture, their lowest cost feed, is a key focus on the Mulder’s farm. Paddocks are grazed when they reach the 2.5-3 leaf stage and are managed to achieve a consistent residual of 1500 kgDM/ha. Rotation length in spring is generally 19-20 days, extending out to 80 days in winter. In the Award year, Ronnie took weekly measurements of the pasture cover for each paddock using a C-Dax bike reader, with the information recorded in “pasture.io” to produce a feed wedge and provide average pasture cover with growth rates for the farm.

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Utilising pasture is a key focus on the Mulder’s farm. Paddocks are grazed when they reach the 2.5-3 leaf stage and are managed to achieve a consistent residual of 1500 kg DM/ha. In the award year, Ronnie took weekly measurements of the pasture cover for each paddock using a C-Dax bike reader, with the information recorded in “pasture.io” to produce a feed wedge and provide average pasture cover with growth rates for the farm.

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The Yolla/Wynyard discussion group met in December at Robin Hill Dairy, Flowerdale. The property is owned and managed by the Roberts family, milking at peak 480 cows at a stocking rate of 4 cows/ha. A big focus on the farm is pasture measurement and monitoring.

Online pasture web application launched

Pasture.io is a new online web application that compiles and crunches farm pasture data and ruminant nutrition... its mission is to revolutionise pasture management by providing farmers with a platform that enables them to take greater control of their operation.

Pasture efficiency key to boosting margins, says Tasmanian dairy farmer Oliver Roberts

In an area like Tasmania where rainfall is typically generous, the ability to grow rye grass pastures is a competitive advantage to keep feed costs down in the dairy industry, and other grazing industries.

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