Key program kicks into farmer pockets

摘要

BUILDING a profitable dairy farming business involves the careful control of the basics, the major one being grazing management. If done well, this is a core basic that will produce significant benefits for the business at relatively low cost.Data collected recently from farmers who had participated in a Feeding Pastures for Profit program showed that an individual dairy business can benefit by up to $43,000 per year just by improving its grazing management practices. Some farmers save more and other less, but the guts of the program is that farms producing and utilising more home-grown feed can generally weather the price/cost squeeze more successively.