Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine nutritional requirements for livestock
- Assess pasture feed
- Grazing management strategy is determined to ensure the sustainable stocking capacity of pasture.
- Pasture is monitored for quantity and quality to ensure continual and consistent supply of nutrients to livestock.
- Pasture intake is monitored and assessed according to identified nutritional requirements of livestock.
- Determine supplementary feeding program
- Develop livestock feeding plan
- Feeding plan is developed and reviewed to ensure it remains responsive to changing conditions.
- Suitable feed conservation methods or fodder sources are identified and carried out in preparation for abnormal conditions.
- A system of feeding is selected that supplies the appropriate amount of feed to the herd/flock to meet condition and growth needs, and that meets production requirements of the business.
- A feed budget is prepared according to the selected system of feeding.
- Data is documented for continual assessment and effective management planning.