The number of milkers carried per hectare of the milking platform across the year — the long-run grazing pressure that must be matched to the pasture the platform actually grows.
Subtropical grazing dairies commonly run 1.5–3.0 cows/ha on the milking platform, lifting with irrigation and bought-in feed.
Subtropical Dairy ↗Push stocking rate above what the platform grows and you buy in feed to fill the gap, eroding margin; sit too low and you leave pasture — and milk — on the table. It is the central lever balancing home-grown feed against bought-in.
Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses, and keeps the figure current automatically.
Match stocking rate to measured pasture growth, not just last year’s number.
Lift home-grown feed with fertiliser, forage cropping and grazing management.
Use a feed budget to decide when to buy in versus de-stock.
The number of milkers carried per hectare of the milking platform across the year — the long-run grazing pressure that must be matched to the pasture the platform actually grows.
You need: Cows on the platform (head), Milking platform area (ha). Silo pulls each of these from the sources the operation already uses and keeps the figure current automatically.
Subtropical grazing dairies commonly run 1.5–3.0 cows/ha on the milking platform, lifting with irrigation and bought-in feed.
Match stocking rate to measured pasture growth, not just last year’s number. Lift home-grown feed with fertiliser, forage cropping and grazing management. Use a feed budget to decide when to buy in versus de-stock.
Connect the software, spreadsheets and records you already keep, and Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current automatically.
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