Monitoring performance

For many farmers a drive around the farm and an eye appraisal of stock and pasture is enough monitoring to stay on top of things - but are you in the top 10%, if not can you afford not to be?

However, if you want to make substantial gains then monitoring and getting good information goes hand in hand with good planning. Good plans and good monitored data are essential in communicating to other people where you are and where you would like to be - this makes it efficient and enjoyable for others to assist you in your journey.

Farmtools is designed to keep your plan up to date showing you the impact and trends as they emerge.

Why is Farmtools a better way of monitoring?

Monitoring can take many forms. You may measure pasture cover 3 times a year and compare it with pasture cover at similar times in previous years. This adds to your gut feeling that you may or may not have enough grass.

Farmtools is a system which uses this monitored data to calculate both past and future performance. For example adding your pasture cover measurements into Farmtools will show you:

How much grass you have been growing;
How much pasture cover you may have in coming months;
Whether you will have enough pasture to meet animal performance targets.

This makes it easy for you to assess what needs to be done. It is also more efficient if you seek advice from other people such as a farm consultant to to determine the most profitable way ahead.

How much monitoring is involved?

Each month you need to enter key information including a pasture cover, livestock transactions, areas removed for crops, areas with nitrogen applied, and supplements made or fed. You will also weight key stock classes 3-4 times each year.

In the example we can see May is highlighted as the current month, for the mixed lambs 09 mob on the 5^th May 600 lambs are bought weighing 29kg, costing $60 each.

To find out how Farmax will improve future decisions click here to read about maximising performance.

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