• To assist dairy farmers to increase the profitability and productivity of their farms through better pasture management and more strategic use of supplements.
• To assist farmers to better understand the key profit drivers in a pasture based dairy farming system.
• To demonstrate how improving the Feedbase management will optimise the use of resources in their farm business. 

• Understand the profit drivers in a pasture based dairy system.
• Understand the principles of grazing management to optimise pasture quantity and quality and milk production.
• Accurately identify leaf stage of ryegrass and use this to set grazing rotation length.
• Use the Rotation Right tool on their farm.

• The challenges of grazing management.
• Where is the right place to put the electric fence every day of the year.
• All about ryegrass - basic grazing principles to optimise dry matter production and feed quality.
• Rotational Right Tool - a simple calculator to allocate the right amount of pasture every day.

• Review of the grazing rules from day 1.
• How to feed supplements effectively and profitably.
• Cow nutrition principles.
• Margin over feed costs and profit- what is the most profitable level of feeding.
• Putting it all together.

This course has been mapped to the national unit of competency RTE4011A Manage Pastures for Livestock Production.

This course was developed in partnership with Dairy Australia.