Management and review (May to August)
Daily management and reviewing of your wintering practices ensures any gaps or issues identified can be actioned quickly and easily.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Intensive winter feeding: Minimising the environmental risk
Managing winter crop grazing on deer farms to minimise soil and nutrient losses in deer systems
PROVIDER
DINZ
Sustainable winter dairy grazing on arable farms
Winter dairy grazing provides good cash flow to arable farmers and is seen as a mitigation option for nutrient management by the dairy sector. This project collected information from farmers across the North and South Islands about the perceived risks and current management practices for winter grazing.
PROVIDER
FAR - Foundation for Arable Research
Winter Grazing Action Group - Expected Outcomes for Animal Welfare
This document provides guidance for animal welfare while grazing winter crops. The suggestions are not legal minimum standards or requirements – and are intended to give confidence to farmers who are already meeting or exceeding industry expectations and provide suggestions for improvement to those who still have a way to go. The sole focus of the advice below is animal welfare; however, there are also environmental responsibilities and requirements which farmers need to follow when making their winter grazing plans.
PROVIDER
Ministry for Primary Industries
Creating a winter grazing plan
Use this guide to create your own paddock specific winter grazing plan
PROVIDER
Thriving Southland
Good management practice for winter grazing podcast
Podcast - Ross Monaghan, Soil Scientist at AgResearch, discusses taking care of stock, soils and water in winter grazing scenarios
Winter Feed Crops: Management During Grazing
This fact sheet focuses on good management practices. It is essential to consider how to reduce nutrient and contaminant losses to streams and waterways as well as minimising damage to soils and paddocks.
Strategic grazing of winter crops
Video - West Otago farmer, Simon O'Meara speaks about strategic grazing of winter crops to help reduce sediment and nutrient loss into waterways.
Reducing surface runoff from grazed winter forage crop paddocks by strategic grazing management
Research results showing the effect of good critical source area management in a winter grazing scenario
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Forage cropping management
https://beeflambnz.com/knowled...A full winter forage crop growing and grazing guide intended to be filled in and added to a farm environmental management plan.
Break Fed Wintering
Winter grazing/ Forage crop grazing
Good environmental outcomes require good environmental practice. Farmers are already doing some great work in the environment space, but there is still much to be done. Managing winter grazing so it has minimal impact on waterways is an area that can be addressed with some forward planning and simple management tweaks.
Wintering feed systems for deer
A complete deer focused wintering page including planning, designing and operating a winter feeding system. This includes crop based wintering and feed pads
PROVIDER
DINZ
Managing cows during wet conditions on grass break out zones
Hear from Southland dairy farmers Peter and Emma Hammond about how they use grass break out zones during wintering to provide their cows comfortable lying surfaces.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
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