Previous Focus Days
Focus Day October 2016
Topics Covered:
- On-farm performance:
- Pasture Management
- Regrassing that pays
- Mating plans
and
- Consent Time:
- Land Use Consents
- LUDF's draft Application
Focus Day July 2016
Topics Covered:
- 2015/16 Profitability Comparison
- Over 1800kgMS/ha and 520kgMS/cow with only 126 kgDM imported feed/cow.
- Farm working expenses below $3.50/kgMS.
- What are the drivers behind these results?
- Did changes made at LUDF this season put them at the top of the profitability comparison?
- What further adjustments are these farms implementing next season?
Focus Day May 2016
Topics Covered:
- Where next? (Survival 2015/16, Sustainable 2016/17
- Farm Working Expenses
- Implementing Low Imput System
- Farm performance this season
- WorkSafe - Keep Safe, Keep Farming
Focus Day February 2016
Topics Covered:
- Bounce Forward - Resilient and Ready for the Upside
- Matching Feed Supply and Demand with less inputs
- Environmental Changes - constraints or opportunities?
- Using Technology to reduce costs / maximise production
Focus Day October 2015
Topics Covered:
- Re-jigging the system to maintain viability
- Pasture Management; and
- Launch of the Sustainable Dairying - Workplace Action Plan
Focus Day July 2015
Topics Covered:
- Pushing For Profit
- LUDF Financial Benchmarking
- DairyNZ Tactics for Tight Times