Previous Focus Days
Focus Day - 9 October 2024 (LUDF)
Topics covered:
- Lowdown on LUDF
- Save Money, Make Money, Manage Money
- Grow more grass with each pass
Focus Days - 30 April 2024
(Highveld Pastures - Methven) &
1 May 2024 (Waimak Dairies - Eyrewell Forest)
1 May 2024 (Waimak Dairies - Eyrewell Forest)
SIDDC Focus Days were held at Highveld Pastures, Methven on 30 April 2024 and at Waimak Dairies, Eyrewell Forest on 1 May 2024
Topics covered:
- Flexible Milking – (Flo Coetzee from Highveld Pastures & Richard Pearse from Waimak Dairies)
- Update on the Reproduction Project
Focus Day 14 February 2024 (LUDF)
Topics Covered:
- Scope Three & LUDF's Environmental Journey - Virginia Serra (DairyNZ), Louise Cook & Sean Spence (Fonterra)
- Wellbeing Farmstrong - Jack Cocks
- Plantain - the LUDF Journey - Omar Al-Marashedeh (Lincoln University)
Focus Day 4 October 2023 (LUDF)
Topics Covered:
- History of SIDDC
- 2023 Reproduction Update
- Break-even Milk Price for your Business
- Cost Control in our Business
- Plantain
- Safer Farms
Links to audio presentations:
- AUDIO Paul Edwards Dairy NZ
- AUDIO Jeremy Savage MRB
- AUDIO Blair Robinson Dairy Holdings
- AUDIO Stephen Esposito Safer Farms
- AUDIO Omar Al Marashdeh Lincoln Uni
Focus Day 19 June 2023 - (Ashburton Event Centre)
Topic:
- Reproduction Benchmark Programme
Focus Day 26 April 2023 - (Alderbrook Farm - Rakaia)
Topics Covered:
- Pasture Management
- LUDF Mating Results
Focus Day 15 February 2023 (LUDF)
Topics Covered:
- Intensive Grazing
- Team Culture on Farm
Focus Day 4 May 2022
Topics Covered:
- Monitoring your nitrogen footprint
- Cow Collars (Allflex)
- Cow Tags (Cow Manager)
- Farm Management Systems (Halter)
Focus Day 6th October 2021
Topics Covered:
- Breeding the ideal LUDF cow
- Variable milkings update science
- The science of Ecotain, how does it work?
- Successful establishment of Plantain
Focus Day 15 October 2020
Topics Covered:
- Spring feeding, peak milk production
- Pasture monitoring
- Nitrogen cap
- LUDF jounrey to low nitrogen
Focus Day February 2020
Topics Covered:
- Mating results
- Managing Time Off
- Our Future, Their Future
- On-Farm Compliance
- Motivating Change of your Dairy Business
- LUDF Profitability Updates
Focus Day October 2019
Topics Covered:
- Pasture Management
- Mating Without Bulls
- Managing Milk Price Risk
- Pasture Monitoring Systems
- Profitability Benchmarking
Focus Day April 2019
Topics Covered:
- 18-19 LUDF Farm and Financial Performance
- The Hidden Costs of Feeding
- Low Footprint Farming, Impact on Profit
Focus Day February 2019
Topics Covered:
- Attracting and Retaining the Best Quality People in the Dairy Industry
- Passing Your Environmental Audit With Flying Colours
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- LUDF On-Farm Update
Open Farm Walk Day October 2018
Open Farm Walk in lieu of LUDF October Focus Day
Topics Covered:
- LUDF season to date
- Spring Management After a High Growth Winter
- 39% Ahead of Last Season’s Production to-date
- This Season’s Mating Plan: No Bulls
Focus Day May 2018
Transforming effluent management:
Hear about an emerging new technology that looks to reduce effluent storage requirements, fresh water use, and environmental & safety risks linked to farm dairy effluent.
As well as the end of season scorecard: Production, profit, InCalf results, calving spread, N-Loss and GHG emissions.
Focus Day February 2018
Topics Covered:
- Forages for Reduces Nitrate Leaching
- Winter crops and standoff areas
- Plantain dominant pasture
- Eating >18,000 kgDM/ha
- Future cuse of dry cow products
- LUDF seasonal update
Focus Day October 2017
Topics Covered:
- Farm Biosecurity – What are the real risks?
- Outcome of the wet winter
- Season to date farm performance
- Controlling expenses per kgMS
- Mating plans – Planned changes this season
Focus Day July 2017
Topics Covered
- Annual Profitability Comparison of leading Canterbury Dairy Farms
- Exploring the next Frontier
- Following 3 years of stunning performance at LUDF, its your opportunity to contribute to the next phase.
Focus Day May 2017
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 2017
Topics Covered:
- Respiratory Disease (IBR): Was it significant?
- Repro Results: 63% 6 week incalf – what now?
- Autumn Management: Fodderbeet opportunity
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
Farm Walks
Weekly Farm Walks – starting Wed 28 August 2024
Our weekly farm walks are due to commence at 9.00am (sharp) on Wednesday 28 August 2024.
Please text Peter Hancox on 0274 409 285 to confirm your place.
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