Description
- Managing multiple grazing farms
- Focusing on higher production and/or lower costs
- Setting up different milking units to increase output and reduce costs
- Job satisfaction and profitability of system
- Larger profit being yielded from farms due to an increase in output
- Economic results
- Good support team
- Discussion groups
- Pasturebase Ireland
Reason for the innovation
Increase output per hectare while minimising costs
- Setting up different milking units to increase output and reduce costs
Farm description
Environment
- Soil type: Sandy-loam
- Climate type: Temperate Oceanic
- Altitude: Variation across the farm
- Slope: Variation across different paddocks
- Agricultural area (ha UAA): 800
- Average stocking rate (agriculture area) (LU/ha UAA): 2.6
Grassland management
- Grazing: Yes
- Grazing management type: Rotational grazing
Structure
- Total Livestock unit (LU): 1400 cows
- Breed type 1: Fr*Je
- Annual work units (AWU): 10
Animal performance
- Average stocking rate (grassland area) (LU/ha): 2.6
- Milk production per head (l/year/dairy animal): 4800l
- Grassland management type: Rotational
- Length of grazing period: 285 days
- Fertilization rate (kg N/ha): 240
Why it is working
- Setting up different milking units to increase output and reduce costs
- Increase output, sell more milk to the co-ops
- Job satisfaction, profitability
- Larger profit being yielded from farms due to an increase in output
- Economic results
- Good support team
- Discussion groups
- Pasturebase Ireland
