Integrated livestock Cropping

Systems 

Three Questions

• What is mixed farming• Is it important• If it is, what is the right

system.

Crop –Pasture Rotations

External Crop Livestock

Winter Stocker Operation

$Risk •What is the right System?

•Seeded 25 April•Grazing till 10 August•Lamb growth 320grams per day

• June 25th

• 350 ewes and lambs 15 days• 14 ha

•1.24 T/Ha •1.26 T/Ha

•Lucerne Over seeded with canola

• "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."

•Adam Smith

Corn = Energy

Diversity decreases risk but increases

opportunity

Thank you

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