Previous Focus Days
Focus Day November 2009
Topics Covered:
- Tight management for tight times on the LUDF
Focus Day October 2009
Topics Covered:
- Feeding management
- Milking once-a-day at start of season
- Mating options to maintain BW
- Monthly financial tactical management
- LUDF Variance Report and budget
Focus Day July 2009
Topics Covered:
- Profit Comparison: LUDF unveiled
- Seasonal update
- Management practices of dairy cows on kale
- SIDDC farm system review of the LUDF
- LUDF Financial Report
- LUDF budget vs actual comparisons
Focus Day May 2009
Topics Covered:
- Achieve target production OR maximise profit?
- Seasonal update
- Why does the LUDF grow so much grass?
- Profitable use of supplements at LUDF
Focus Day February 2009
Topics Covered:
- Survival or success? Maximising on-farm opportunities in a volatile economic climate
- Seasonal update / mating results
- Sprinkler placement
- Native tree planting
- Autumn strategies / Clover Root Weevil
- Planning for 2009/10
Focus Day October 2008
Topics Covered:
- Another wet spring! Just an inconvenience or a disaster?
- Mating Management
- Pastures
Focus Day July 2008
Topics Covered:
- Making Income Hit the Bottom Line
- Financial results 2007/08: cash operating surplus more than trebles but were opportunities missed?
- 2008/09 Budget dissected – the challenge of controlling costs.
- Operational refinements: irrigation audit/reviewing the runoff
- Greenhouse gases – all hot air or a risk to your business: LUDF case study gives some perspectives
Focus Day May 2008
Topics Covered:
- Will technology take us to a new frontier?
- Reproduction performance
- Protrack at LUDF
- Irrigation – Aquaflex
- Breeding technologies – short gestation and sexed semen
- Nitrate leaching results on LUDF
- Farm automation
- Feed and environment
Focus Day February 2008
Topics Covered:
- Pioneer country tamed
- Making stones grow grass
- LUDF Management principles applied to tough dairying land
- Sharemilkers making it work
- Leo Donkers – another two years into the system at Te Pirita
Focus Day October 2007
Topics Covered:
- Tips for managers, skills for staff
- LUDF Update/farm accounts to August
- Pastures for profit
- Mating management
Focus Day July 2007
Topics Covered:
- The season @ LUDF vs Budget
- Benchmarks and DairyBase
- Where to next season
- Financial and productivity – 5 years at LUDF
- Back to top
Focus Day May 2007
Topics Covered:
Chickens come home to roost!
LUDF Nutrient Management Plan
Focus Day March 2007
Topics Covered:
- Irrigation Focus Day
- Consent to take water
- Getting the most out of water
- Can the system do the job well?
- Warrant of Fitness for irrigated agriculture
- Water in pasture out
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