Early severe frosts in Northern Victoria and Southern New South Wales, coupled with very dry parts of North West Victoria has resulted in some grain crops cut for silage and some fodder crops not cut at all.
FUTURE PROOFING FODDER QUALITY ANALYSIS FOR AUSTRALIA
Read more: RIRDC Report on the Fodder Industry - October 2014
Drought conditions can cause a lot of heartache for farmers trying to maintain their livestock.
Many areas of Victoria and New South Wales have recently experienced severe frosts. In many cases this has ruined crops for grain and decisions are now being made whether to cut for silage or hay.
There are occasions when stock will not perform as expected on certain feeds. Milk production may drop back or weight gain is not achieved. There can be a number of reasons for this performance drop.
Read more: Is your feed yielding the production you expected?