Managing multiple grazing farms

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

Additional information

Farming system

conventional farming

Domains of innovation

farm system, grazing management system

Main types of animal

dairy cattle

Country

Ireland

Product type

Farmer portrait

Language

English

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