This form may take up to 30 minutes to complete. Please have on hand your livestock, staff and feed records. We will be matching this physical data against your accounts so where possible, please compare with your accounts or cash records to confirm amounts. 

Accuracy is important as we want to provide you with the most factual report possible. If you are unsure of something and/or want to change an answer please email us at team@dboy.co.nz

This allows us to match your form with other forms submitted, please ensure you use the same farm name as submitted on the Entry Form

Staff that are taking a wage non representative of a true wage should be moved into unpaid labour and their wage stated so it can be removed from the accounts 

Grazing 

In order to determine pasture harvest we need to calculate the weeks the cattle are consuming pasture from the milking platform. Please correctly indicate the weeks cattle are ON or OFF the platform. For calves, ON is only the time they are on the pasture, for time in the calf shed this is considered time OFF.

Stock Reconcilliation (if not in accounts or cash manager)

To use a stock reconcilliation follow these steps

1. Enter the stock numbers you opened the season with

2. Enter the numbers purchased (plus numbers born in the calves tab)

3. Enter the numbers sold for each age group

4. Enter the numbers died or killed (if unknown work backwards or skip)

5. To get your end of year tally for each row take the Opening Stock + Purchase/Born - Sales -Deaths/Killed 

6. Aged out is the numbers that will now move to the next age group (e.g. calves to R1 Heifers) 

7. Aged in is where stock have come into that age group (e.g. the calves from above into the R1 cell) 

8. Next seasons opening is then the End of Year Tall less Aged Out + Aged In 

To determine productivity of the livestock and the land, we must know all feeds purchased and made. Please include all feed that has gone through the accounts, even if it has not been fed to the milking cows - over the page we will split off feed not fed on the platform, or on hand at the end of the season. We will be matching these with the account transactions so please compare with your accounts or cash manager where possible. Also, the more accurate the volumes, the more accurate your report so refrain from guessing or rounding. 

Please include measurements in the figures entered below: 

tDM = Tonnes of Dry Matter    tAF = wet weight

If stating bales, please give size estimate (e.g. 56 x 180kg Bales) 

The closer the "estimation" the more accurate your analysis will be. 

Please include grazed crops in this section as well. If the yield was not measure and cannot be estimated, please put a "?" in the volume box and move to total cost. 

Please include grazed crops in this section as well. If the yield was not measured and cannot be estimated, please put a "?" in the volume box and move to total cost. 

Feed Stock Take 

Opening / Closing Feed on Hand

In order to accurately determine pasture harvest and true cost of feeding in that season, we must know the feed on hand at the start of the season as well as the closing. This is very important to get accurate and will effect your outputs. 

Equally as important as knowing the change, is determining the amount of that feed which is fed to cows off the milking platform, this helps us to determine an accurate pasture harvest.

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