Previous Focus Days
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