Feedbase and nutrition

Pastures and grazing management

The NSW DPI pastures and rangelands website has information on species and varieties, establishment, pasture mixes as well as hay and silage.

Information on milk production from kikuyu is available.

Dairy Australia also offers a range of grazing information including:

• Grazing pasture in temperate climates
• Growing and grazing Kikuyu in warmer climates
• Feeding Pastures for Profit (FPFP) helps to improve the profit of dairy farm businesses by using more home-grown pasture and efficient use of supplements.

Fodder production and nutrition

• Commodity vendor declarations for stock feeds
• NSW DPI Feedtest laboratory
• Feed cost calculator
• Drought feeding App
• Maize silage - Costing and gross margin calculator instructions
• Topfodder successful silage manual
• Controlling plague locusts in dairying areas
• Future dairy feedbase tech note series

For further technical information on feedbase visit the Dairy Australia website.