This guide brings together information on:
- the selection, agronomy and management of suitable forages
- indicative forage yields at key sites across the Fitzroy River catchment
- expected content of principal nutrients in the forages and their relationship to cattle performance
- indicative cattle growth rates from a range of high output forages
- approaches to incorporating high-output forages into feed plans to produce the target growth rates and liveweights required to meet market specifications
- non-nutritional factors that can affect liveweight gain
- example economic analyses at key sites across the catchment to provide objective comparisons of various forage options
- spreadsheets to allow calculation of the economic performance of key forage systems using the user’s own input variables.
Authors: Maree Bowen, Stuart Buck and Rebecca Gowen, Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, 2010.
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