grow grass grow - dairy farming with jet and emma
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Meet Jet and Emma, HSC students from the south coast of NSW having a 'dairy' good time. Update: Jet and Emma recently won a Landcare Champions of the Catchment Education Award. Congrats!TRANSCRIPT
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Getting Down and Dirty on the dairy farm with
Emma & Jet
www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW
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Emma and Jet
• My name is Emma I am 16. As part of my HSC I am doing a dairy traineeship at Clover Hill Dairies
• My name is Jet. I am also doing a dairy traineeship with Alan and Leesa Swan at Hillview Dairy
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Hi I’m
Emma
Hi I’m Jet
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What are Emma and Jet going to
talk about today?
They are going to tell everyone how the farmer fertilises the
pastures and looks after the environment so we
have plenty of lush green grass to eat to help us
produce lots of high quality milk
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Lets start at the beginning
• Cows eat a lot of grass per day - over a wheelbarrow load - which means they produce a lot of manure.
100kgs grass per day
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Since the cows use the same laneways to get to the dairy each day
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and stand in the yards waiting to get milked, a lot of manure collects on the same parts of the farm.
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Cows help move nutrients around the farm. When they graze they pick up the nutrients in the grass in one paddock and spread them to the next paddock they graze after milking.
Link
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/resources/soils/improvement/plant-nutrients
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Adapted from How Now
Aussie Cow booklet –
Dairy Australia
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• Wise use of this manure is a good thing as it contains lots of goodness and nutrients that the cow hasn’t had time to digest.
Just think our manure feeds the soil
The soil feeds the grass and the grass feeds us
Amazing !!!!!!!
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• This goodness includes organic matter which helps build soil carbon and keep moisture in the soil.
• Manure also contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, nutrients or foods which help plants grow.
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This is a map of our farm showing the
levels of soil carbon in our paddocks
Red = very highpink = high
High soil carbon is a good thing isn't it??
Learn all about it herewww.csiro.au/resources/soil-carbon
Read more: www.amazingcarbon.com/PDF/JONES-Carbon&Catchments(Nov06).pdf
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You grow lots and lots of yummy
short sweet grass
Look what happens when
you spread fertiliser
and short sweet grass mean we can
produce lots of milk and less methane!!!
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Wise farmers recycle the manure and urine collected in
holding ponds around the dairy. This waste is used to irrigate and fertilise (feed)
pastures helping them grow.
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Emma hosing out On our farm we recycle 50% of the water we
use to produce our milk.
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What sorts of fertilisers are there??
To help the grass grow lush and sweet the farmer also
purchases and spreads inorganic and organic
fertiliser.
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The first one you have already seen and the other one is
poultry manure
Organic fertiliser is derived from animal or vegetable matter.
We use two types of organic fertiliser
at Clover Hill
Dairies
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Look at our fluffy chooks
They are called Silkies
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Our silkies produce lots of manure
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Truckloads in fact which we recycle and spread over
our farm
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We use a contractor to spread our poultry manure and lime.
His name is Dave.Here he is looking at the
nutrient map with Michael the farmer
Hi I’m Dave
Hi I’m Michael
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How should we use fertiliser wisely
Fertiliser is very expensive. To use it in a cost effective and
environmentally sensitive way wise farmers test soil nutrient levels and
only apply fertiliser to the paddocks that need more nutrients.
No guess work on this farm!
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Nutrient maps
very high
high
adequate
low
very low
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Nutrient Management Plan
A nutrient management plan is a set of conservation practices designed to use fertilizer and/or manure effectively while protecting against the potential adverse impacts of manure, erosion and organic by-products on water quality.
To create the plan we:• Soil test• Manure test• Practice erosion control • Manage soil for pH • Time fertilizer/manure application. Link is www.asris.csiro.au/themes/nutrient.html
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What Goes in vs. What Goes Out
Nutrient budgeting is used by all good farmers.• The process involves balancing nutrients coming
into the farming system with those leaving.• The aim is to prevent pollution events and save
costs by precisely matching the nutrient requirements of the crop with application of organic and inorganic fertilizers.
Links1. www.ew.govt.nz/environmental-information/Land-and-soil/Managing-Land-and-Soil/Managing-farm-nutrients/2. www.sardi.sa.gov.au/__data/.../fact_sheet_1404_nutrient_budgeting.doc
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Mmh this organic fertiliser may be
good for the environment but it’s
a bit on the nose.
Don’t worry you wont even notice in
a couple of days and the grass will be all green and
lush.
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Is soil pH important??The pH of soil or more precisely the pH of the soil
solution is very important because soil solution carries in it nutrients such as Nitrogen (N),
Potassium (K), and Phosphorus (P) that plants need in specific amounts to grow, thrive,
and fight off diseases.
Coastal soils tend to be acidic and farmers spread Calcium hydroxide (lime) to raise the
soil pHLink http://soil.gsfc.nasa.gov/soil_pH/plant_pH.htm
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This is the pH map of our farm pink = very good almost neutral
Green = acidic but still very good for growing pasture
Blue = acidic and needs attention Yellow = far too acidic and needs a
lot of attention
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Hi .Dave back again
loading the truck up with lime.
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This is paddock 51 on our farm covered in
lime
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• Lime leaves the pasture looking like snow has fallen.
• Rain soon washes it into the soil.
Oh my golly gosh I need to pay closer attention to the weather
reports.Look its snowing over there !!!!
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We also use different types of inorganic
fertiliser on our farm to grow short sweet
grass.
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Want to know more….
Both natural and man-made fertilisers are measured by the three MAJOR Nutrients that are in them. These are: -
• Nitrogen (N) - assists plants with leaf and stem growth.
• Phosphorus (P) known as PHOSPHATE -assists young plants and root crops to develop good root systems.
• Potassium (K) known as POTASH - assists plants to produce flowers and fruit.
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On our farm we mostly spread urea
Want to know how they make fertiliserwww.slideshare.net/chalkie28/making-fertiliser
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We put inorganic fertilisers on the paddock with a
spreader attached to the back of the tractor
This ensures even spreading
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Nutrient mapsThis map shows
the levels of P on our farm
Which paddocks would you put
super phosphate on ??????
very high
high
adequate
low
very low
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Helicopters Spreading Nutrients
• Sometimes on very large farms helicopters are used to spread the fertilisers.
• Helicopter pilots have to be very careful to keep well away from the rivers and stream so the fertiliser doesn't get into our waterways.
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Nitrogen Escapes!!!!
• It is very important that farmers look after their waterways.
• When soil and nutrients fall into rivers, they become murky and it upsets the food balance for all the water-dwelling animals.
• Sometimes it encourages the growth of algae that can poison animals.
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How does Nitrogen get into water ways
Source:
www.ew.govt.nz/environmental-information/Land-and-soil/Managing-Land-and-
Soil/Managing-farm-nutrients/Managing-farm-nitrogen/
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I don’t like the look of that water .Do you ??????
It smells !!!!!!!!!www.toxics.usgs.gov/definitions/eutrophication.html
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Hey don’t drink out of there Look how clean it is!!!
Lets make sure we help keep it that way for the
ducks.Lets go and find a trough to
drink out of.
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Fertiliser Management Strategies
Its no laughing matter
Image www.usefilm.com
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Laughing Gas – not so funny
• Nitrous oxide also known as laughing gas or happy gas is a major greenhouse gas and air pollutant.
• Over a 100 year period, it has 298 times more impact per unit weight than carbon dioxide.
• Nitrous oxide escapes into the air when nitrogen fertiliser is used. (See next slide)
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Nitrogen Cycle
This is laughing Gas
(nitrous oxide)
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Fertiliser – the aim of the game…
is to keep the nutrients on the pasture and out of the airways and waterways.
So its very important to: measure what goes in and what goes out
andonly apply what you need, where you
need it and not when rain is going to bucket down.
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Fertiliser Formulations • Like all things driven by need, fertilisers are
being developed with protective coatings to reduce the amount of Nitrous Oxide escaping in the atmosphere. Fertiliser isn't
the only bad guy.Did you walk to
work today?
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Healthy soils and clean waterways means happy
healthy cows
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Jet and Emma Farm Management Education Series K to 12
Links Milk It
www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-milk-it
Farm to Factory
www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-cups-on-cups-off
Grow Grass Grow
www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma
Seeding Time
www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-seeding-time-1236604
How it all began – a Taste for Dairy
www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/jet-and-emma-a-taste-for-dairy
Dairying for Climate Change.
www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-healthy-landscape-1641792
Circle of Life – Calf to Cow
www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/circle-of-life-calf-to-cow
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Cream of the Cropsee the 2009
Cream of the Crop finalists and learn more about farming
atwww.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/presentations
.
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Visit our Website and Watch our videos
www.dairyyouthaustralia.com.au/jetandemma/index.html
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Acknowledgements
1. Farm yard animal graphics have been created for the “Jet and Emma Get Down and Dirty on the Farm” series by students from Mt Terry Public School
2. Slides 49,50,52 & 53 have been taken from “Climate Change who Cares”
which can be found at www.dairyyouthaustralia.com.au/competition
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The Jet and Emma Series is a Dairy Youth Australia inc initiative assisted by
Kiama Municipal Council through its Sustainable Living Grants Program.
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Watch this
space we will be back
soon