About the course

This course covers basic pasture production metrics: Animal Units, carrying capacity, stocking rate, and stocking density. These metrics allow farmers and farm advisors to use pasture production metrics to benchmark, assess, and plan the grazing enterprises on their farms. For researchers, these pasture production metrics are the things that should be included either in your results or methods section of your paper. The course is for farmers, agronomists, nutritionists, researchers, and students. This course is part of the Rotational Grazing micro-credential badge available to CCAs and P.Ags developed in partnership with OSCIA, OMAFA, Ontario CCA, and OFC.

Christine O'Reilly

Your instructor for this course is Christine O'Reilly. Christine is the Forage & Grazing Specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness. Her focus is on improving the productivity and profitability of forage crops. Christine joined the ministry in 2017 and is based out of the Lindsay office.

Curriculum

7 Chapters · 18 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      About this course

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Glossary

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Math cheat sheet

  2. 2

    Animal Units

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      What is an Animal Unit?

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Turning real livestock into Animal Units

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Animal Unit Equivalency cheat sheet

  3. 3

    Carrying Capacity

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Defining carrying capacity

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Estimating carrying capacity

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Ontario hay yield data

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Carrying capacity quiz

  4. 4

    Stocking Rate

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Defining stocking rate

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Calculating stocking rate

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Stocking rate quiz

  5. 5

    Stocking Density

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Defining stocking density

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Calculating stocking density

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Stocking density quiz

  6. 6

    Record Keeping

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      What else might we want to know?

  7. 7

    Next Steps

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Next steps

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Don't miss out on these fundamentals of pasture production! If you're already a paid OFC Individual Member, head to ontarioforagecouncil.thinkific.com/enrollments Have questions? Email [email protected]

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