GrazPlan

The GRAZPLAN project at CSIRO Plant Industry has developed a series of computer models that are the basis of four commercially available decision support (DS) tools. These tools are intended to help farmers to make decisions about their farm management based on findings from scientific research. They are aimed not only at farmers and farm advisors, but also at industry organisations, agribusiness, banks and insurance companies.
GrazPlan brochure

The first three of these tools are commercially available through:

Horizon Agriculture
www.hzn.com.au
Email: horizonag@hzn.com.au
Phone: 02 9440 8088
Fax: 02 9887 4428

MetAccess: Uses daily climate records to help farmers estimate the probable weather conditions at critical times in the production cycle. This information can be used to make better decisions about suitable crop and pasture varieties as well as setting optimum dates for farm operations.
MetAccess brochure

GrazFeed: Provides estimates of animal production from available pasture for any breed of sheep or cattle. It predicts how much supplementary feed, and of what type, will be needed to reach a particular production target.
GrazFeed brochure

GrassGro: Uses information about soils, climate, animals and pasture species to predict the quantity and quality of feed and animal production which can be expected in a particular paddock. It will assess the risk of different combinations of pasture and animals for different soil and climatic conditions.
GrassGro brochure

AusFarm: A flexible modeling tool for agricultural enterprises. AusFarm enables analysis of complex management questions in livestock production or mixed crop-livestock systems. Any process model can be employed with AusFarm, because simulations are implemented with an innovative "common modelling protocol" that handles information exchange between the sub-models.

Supporting documents and programs
There are a range of supporting documents and programs available for the GRAZPLAN models, covering animal biology and nutrition, soil inputs and the latest Technical Paper on GrazFeed.
Supporting documents and programs