Quarterly farm focus days are held to provide timely, accurate and challenging information to help decision-making for South Island dairy farmers.

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9th October 2008
Another wet spring! Just an inconvenience or a disaster?

• LUDF Seasonal update [PDF 1.51MB]
• Incalf [PDF 1.67MB]
• Using the Rising Platemeter and C-dax rapid pasture meter [PDF 920KB]
• Silage making decisions [PDF 256KB]

3rd July 2008
Making Income Hit the Bottom Line

• Handout [PDF 2.56MB]
• Financial results 2007/08: cash operating surplus more than trebles but were opportunities missed?
• 2008/09 Budget dissected - the challenge of controlling costs.
• Operational refinements: irrigation audit/reviewing the runoff
• Greenhouse gases - all hot air or a risk to your business: LUDF case study gives some persectives

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8th May 2008
Will technology take us to a new frontier?

• Handout [PDF 3.94MB]
• Reproduction performance
• Protrack at LUDF
• Irrigation - Aquaflex
• Breeding technologies - short gestation and sexed semen
• Nitrate leaching results on LUDF
• Farm automation
• Feed and environment

21st February 2008
Pioneer country tamed

• Handout [PDF 2.09MB]
• Making stones grow grass
• LUDF Management principles applied to tough dairying land
• Sharemilkers making it work
• Leo Donkers - another two years into the system at Te Pirita

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