Learn how to plan your grazing holistically to maintain animal performance, to improve profitability, biodiversity and paddock resilience and to ensure you have enough pasture.
Learn how your ecosystem functions and how to use your livestock as a tool for positive change in your soils and to reduce the impact of drought.
- Ecosystem processes – water cycle, mineral cycle, solar energy flow and biodiversity
- Key insights - holism, brittleness, the predator / prey connection, managing the component of time
- The tools we use to manage our environment / use of livestock to create a positive impact
- Grazing basics – why, when and how /animal nutrition, managing drought, reducing stress, overcoming complexity
- Feed budgeting – measuring the availability of feed
- The principles of grazing – managing for plant recovery, the effect of increasing the number of paddocks
- Introduction to the Holistic Management Grazing Chart, Holistic Grazing Planning
- Create a Holistic Grazing Chart for your property for the appropriate season