C4 Milk 2017-2022

Developing low risk high forage feeding systems

Developing low risk high forage feeding systems

Project Focus

There are 3 key areas that this project will focus on to assist northern dairy farmers to develop and implement efficient feeding systems that increase MOFC on-farm.

  1. Improve the quality of forage consumed – improvements in forage quality to increase intake and milk responses, therefore improving feed conversion efficiency and MOFC.
  2. Increased proportion of forage in the diet – increasing the proportion of forage in the diet from low cost home grown and purchased forages whilst maintain or increasing milk production to reduce feed related costs.
  3. Testing of low cost feeding systems – developing and testing forage and feeding systems that are low cost, easy to manage and resilient.

What’s New
Field Day handout 21Aug2019 – C4Milk Winter Forage Combination Demonstration