Optimising Grazing Decisions on your farm with Pasture.io: Insights from Founder Oli Roberts

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Join Oli Roberts, founder of Pasture.io, as he delves into effective strategies for enhancing pasture management and livestock grazing. Drawing on 20 years of experience and using his family's dairy farm as an example, Oli demonstrates how Pasture.io's innovative features can help farmers prevent overgrazing or undergrazing, maintain ideal rotation lengths, and adapt to seasonal changes.

Key Highlights:

Strategic Grazing Management: Learn how to select paddocks efficiently using the feed wedge, ensuring optimal pasture cover.

Feed Allocation & Demand: Discover how to set and adjust the kilograms of dry matter per animal per day, adapting to varying pasture growth rates.

Seasonal Adaptation: Gain insights on adjusting grazing strategies for different seasons, particularly considering factors like irrigation in summer and reduced growth rates in winter.

Nutritional Balance: Understand the importance of balancing pasture feeding with supplements like silage and concentrates to meet livestock nutritional needs.

Rotation Length & Pasture Health: Explore methods to manage rotation lengths effectively, keeping pasture production within the ideal 'Goldilocks zone' for peak animal performance.

Through Pasture.io, Oli Roberts illustrates a practical, data-driven approach to pasture management, empowering farmers to make more informed decisions, optimize their farm systems, and enhance both sustainability and profitability.