Growing with Halter
Bringing science to the art of pasture management
1.4t /ha
Extra pasture grown
Using leaf stage
0.3 MJME
Improved pasture quality
With better management
$138.6k
Additional
EBIT
For an average sized
Halter farm
Your decisions are only as good as the data you have.
Tim harvested an additional 730kgDM/ha
Growing 17tDM/ha per year
Improved pasture utilisation by 5% to harvest an additional 730kgDM/ha, worth $277/ha in extra EBIT.
Saving 35 hrs/week, a total of 1800 hours across the season.
No additional labour
“Being more efficient with the grass I'm growing, cause this is the resource I've got. The more efficient I get harvesting that, it's money in the bank”
Tim Richards, North Otago
How much is a 5% increase in utilisation worth?
Grow more with advanced, real-time pasture data
Increase farm operating profit by $525/ha with perfect knowledge of all your essential metrics. (Beukes et al. 2015)
“If I'm getting that daily information, I can make quicker decisions instead of waiting a whole week”
Tim Richards, North Otago
“It’s just a massive improvement over everything I can control, and the responses I’m getting.”
Nathan, Sealach
Pasture forecasting to make the right decisions earlier.
How do you know you're making the right decision if you don't know what the options are?
"We used the forecasted feed wedge to assess the various options and their impact when we are moving towards pasture growth rates trending above pasture demand.
It allowed us to make quicker decisions on removing paddocks for baleage in order to keep quality feed ahead of the cows"
Dan Blair, Sebakwe, Canterbury
“Obviously a week is a long time in farming... a lot of things can happen.”
Tim Richards, North Otago | 17t DM/ha grown
A new era of residual accuracy.
A new era of pasture growth & quality.
Allocate pasture precisely without constraints to ensure you hit consistent residuals every time, improving pasture quality and faster regrowth.
“Last year we really struggled to hit residuals in the first round, which led to quality issues in the second round. This year we have been able to smash the first round residuals with Halter.”
Shauney, Ashburton
“Grass grows grass”
Pasture grows twice as fast during the 3rd leaf stage
as compared to the 1st leaf stage
Sources: Grassland Association, Lincoln University
Farmers grazing rye grass at the 3rd leaf stage see gains in quantity and quality.
Guide your grazing decisions with real-time leaf emergence rate information to grow more grass.
Nathan is on track to increase production by 15,000 milk solids. He achieved a 10% increase in 6WICR in 23-24.
“Leaf stage information is something we've never had before. We're using this info more and more when making grazing decisions. It will mean I'll grow more grass, that's better quality and the return will be in cow condition and milk in the vat.”
Nathan Bluett, Waikato – 580 cows
"Halter allows you to really hone in on the basics and do it right. We were doing the basics well before but now it allows us to do it even better"
Dan Blair, Canterbury
