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Grass+ Section 2

Published 13 December 11

Calculating the Cost of Your Feeds

• Establishing the real cost of grazed grass, silage and other feeds
• Using the utilised DM approach
• Improving grazed grass utilisation
• Calculating actual forage production costs

Objective:  To understand the real farm cost of different feed types.

Challenge: Calculate your current feed costs. Plan feed cost savings in the coming year through a grazed grass output of 10 tonnes of utilised DM/ha.

You are able to download the content of section 1 of the grass+ programme. The full programme is available via post from this link.