Understanding your fodder feed tests
Event description
You're invited to this free event hosted by the Gecko Clan Landcare Network. Understand your hay and silage feed test results and learn how to use this information in a feed budget.
This is an essential workshop for anyone purchasing hay and silage.
Agriculture Victoria expert Nick Linden will present on what numbers in a feed test mean and how to ensure that you are getting what you pay for.
Join us for dinner to meet other landholders, fodder producers and agricultural service providers and to hear how to get the best results from hay and silage production in North-East Victoria.
Everyone is welcome - free event
About the speaker...
Nick is a Livestock Industry Development Officer with over 20 years experience with Agriculture Victoria.
In 2023 Agriculture Victoria released the Feeding ‘How to’ videos where Nick speaks to topics including:
- Costing out your feeds
- What to feed
- How much to feed
- Estimating animal performance
Nick is an expert in interpreting feed tests and developing feed budgets. Nick works with farmers and industry networks on trials to increase livestock productivity.
Agriculture Victoria is working with Victorian farmers and industry to prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters including floods and storms.
This project provides landholders with drought preparedness, early decision making and drought recovery techniques delivered regional community forums and webinars. The project will be delivered from September 2023 to June 2025.
This project received funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.