Pasture productivity

Creating pastures to sustain a profitable farm system has been central to the Armstrong family’s expansion and improvement of their Taranaki operation over the past three generations. Now as the fourth generation take on their roles and the Newells take on contract milking the dairy farms, pasture performance remains a top priority. Words & Photos Anne Lee.

A high Brix test may mean high sugar for the horticulture sector, but when it comes to measuring pasture quality, farmers are being told to look to traditional feed quality analysis. Words Anne Lee.

A deep dive into the numbers shows just how big the dollar benefit is to utilising pasture well and reveals the surprising real cost of supplement boosted milk production. Words Anne Lee.