Nutrition Fundamentals

Nutrition Fundamentals is a three day program helping build skills and confidence in dairy cow nutrition. Come along to develop an understanding of fundamental concepts and gain access to tools and information to help make profitable nutrition decisions for your farm system. Topics will include:

Feed budgeting

The digestive system

Understanding DM, ME, CP and other nutritional terms

Seasonal nutritional requirements

Stock feed ingredients and feed quality

Minimising feed waste

Using field observations to monitor diet

Young stock nutrition

Profitable feeding of a balanced diet.