How to Use Grazing Charts

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Getting Started
- Introducing your instructor
- First up - get your audio sorted
- How to make the most of your learning
- Some Important Information
- Start with the end in mind
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Introduction to Grazing Charts
- The WHY behind a grazing chart
- How a paper grazing chart is laid out
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Introduction to LSU and DSE
- What’s the difference between LSU and DSE?
- Introduction to LSU
- Introduction to DSE
- LSU and DSE Tables Download
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Common questions
- What is a Stock Day?
- How many grazing charts do I set up?
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Grazing Chart - Paddock Calculations
- What information do I need?
- Overview of what goes where
- How to enter grazing information
- Entering half day grazes
- Entering second graze and cumulative totals
- Entering long graze periods (multiple months)
- Grazing multiple paddocks together – how to enter
- How to fill in this area (MaiaGrazing)
- What information do you now have?
- How do you use this information?
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Grazing Chart - Property Calculations
- How is this different to paddock calculations?
- What information do I need?
- Rolling 12mth Rainfall
- Rolling Stock Days for 12 Months - LSU
- Rolling Stock Days for 12 Months - DSE
- Calculating historical stock days
- Getting to this in MaiaGrazing
- How do you use this information?
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Calculating Benchmark Carrying Capacity
- My Carrying Capacity per 100mm
- Calc BM CC SDH per 100mm- LSU
- Calc BM CC SDH per 100mm- DSE
- Using the Graze Period Calculator - SR to CC - LSU
- Do I change my BM CC in different rainfall years
- When do I change my carrying capacity?
- What to do on Black Soils
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Tips and Tricks
- Have you made a calculator error?
- How many units have I run in the past year?
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What's next?
- Congratulations on Completing How to Use Grazing Charts
- Next Steps in Your Learning
- How did we go with this course?