Tools and Resources
A range of farm business tools, calculators and links are available here:
Decision Making for farm businesses
My Farm Dashboard provides automated access to information by selecting data cards. These data cards include information on things like real time pasture biomass and groundcover estimates, soil moisture and temperature, climate records, seasonal forecasts and weekly commodity prices. The information is customised to your farm location. New data cards are constantly being added.
Meat & Livestock Australia have digitised the Sheep and Beef Greenhouse Accounting Framework (SB-GAF) as well as the Grains Accounting Framework (G-GAF), these calculators enable the calculation of greenhouses gases produced at a property level. The calculator enables the calculation of total enterprise greenhouse gas emissions calculation as well as emissions intensity per product produced e.g., beef, sheepmeat, wool, grain.
MLA has a range of tools and calculators to assist red meat producers in making decisions in their businesses including sustainability tools, feed calculators and pasture tools and calculators.
Supplementary Feed Calculator
NSW DPI Drought and Supplumentary Feed Calculator
Managing Feed quality and budgeting for animal requirements
Forage Lab Australia guide to interpreting feed test analysis
MLA guide to Feed test interpretation
Deb Scammel of “Talking Livestock” walk through on feed test interpretation_Video
SA Drought Hub Livestock and Fodder Management
Tools for pasture forecasting - SA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub
Australian Feedbase Monitor - Satellite imagery, data specific to Australian conditions
Tools for cropping and grazing
Soil Acidity Case Studies using Precision Agriculture
GRDC - Australian Fungicide Resistance Extension Network (AFREN) - fungicide resistance
RiskWi$e - GRDC - A risk-reward paradigm to support grower on-farm decision making for Australian grain growers
