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NITROGEN RECORDING PAGES

The information you provide in this form will be entered into Overseer and used to generate a report.

This report will provide you with ongoing statistics on how well your farm(s) has/have been managing nitrogen efficiency and nitrogen loss. It will also show you your farm’s nitrogen conversion efficiency and leaching loss risk compared to other farms in your region.

If you need some help in completing the form or you would like more information about the nitrogen programme please contact your Area Manager, your SDA or a Service Specialist on 0800 65 65 68.

Please complete and return forms to Fonterra by no later than 31st July 2017.

CONTENTSFarm Description 1

Dairy Farm Blocks 2

Herd Data 3

Nitrogen Fertiliser Inputs 5

Nitrogen Inputs (other than traditional commercial fertiliser products) 6

Fresh Water Irrigation 7

Supplementary Feeds at Start of Season 8

Supplementary Feeds Brought Onto Farm (purchased or imported) 9

Pasture Harvested, Hay, Baleage, Silage 10

Fodder Crops / Forage Crops 11

Feed Pads, Stand-Offs and Housing 12

Effluent System 13

WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU MAKE A COPY OF YOUR RECORDING PAGES FOR YOUR OWN RECORDS – if you want a copy back from Fonterra your form will be available through your Farm Source login or you can call the service team for a copy to be sent back to you.

NITROGEN RECORDING PAGES

FARM SOURCE – NITROGEN RECORDING PAGES 1

IF YOU PROVIDED THIS INFORMATION (FARM DESCRIPTION INFORMATION) LAST SEASON AND THERE

HAVE BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES – TICK HERE AND MOVE TO THE NEXT PAGE.

The table below describes the whole farm area including support blocks and land that are attached to the dairy farm and used for other forms of farming.

If you wish to utilise your nitrogen report to demonstrate compliance with regional council rules; it is recommended that you speak to your Sustainable Dairying Advisor to enter your farm management blocks into our mapping system to ensure that these are consistent with council requirements.

EXPLANATION AREA (HA)

Total farm area

The ‘total farm area’ is the total land area of the property that the dairy shed is located within. It includes attached land parcels that are leased. It includes effective and non-effective areas. It includes dairy support land and land used for other farming enterprises where that land is immediately beside or attached to the dairy farm.

Dairy farm area

The ‘dairy farm area’ is the total area (effective and non-effective areas) that makes up the dairy farm. It includes the milking platform and any attached/adjacent land that is predominantly used as dairy support land. (For many dairy farms this will be the same area as total farm area above). It does not include land that is used predominantly for sheep, beef, deer, horticulture or arable enterprises.

NOTES:

FARM DESCRIPTION

2 FARM SOURCE – NITROGEN RECORDING PAGES

IF YOU PROVIDED THIS INFORMATION (FARM MANAGEMENT BLOCK INFORMATION) LAST SEASON AND

THERE HAVE BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES – TICK HERE AND MOVE TO THE NEXT PAGE.

Enter your effluent irrigation block(s) first then other pasture management blocks and permanent crop blocks and lastly non productive blocks such as riparian or bush blocks.

Split up pasture areas into blocks that have significant differences in:

• Management e.g. Different fertiliser Regime • Irrigated/non irrigated (freshwater irrigation)

• Soils/slope • Lucerne

These must all be separate blocks.

If you require more block options than this table allows for, please provide the block breakdown and any explanatory notes in the notes section on page 1.

NOTE: For many farms there may only be an effluent area and one pasture block area.

EXPLANATION NOTES OR BLOCK NAME AREA (HA)

Block 1 If you have an effluent irrigation system on farm enter this area as Effluent Block (s) in to the table. If you have treatment ponds with a consent to discharge to water please type ‘discharge to water’ in to the notes section below.

Block 2

Block 3

Block 4

Block 5

Block 6

Block 7

TOTAL Total of these blocks should equal the dairy farm area on the farm description table (page 1).

Did you grow fodder crops on your dairy farm in the 2016/2017 season? e.g. turnips, maize, triticale, kale etc Yes No

If you answered ‘yes’, on which block(s) was the crop grown?

Do you utilse a support* block as part of your farm system.

If you wish to include this area of land as part of your nutrient budget; you will need to complete the online version of the Nitrogen Recording Pages (https://nzfarmsource.co.nz/) as this will allow you to include additional information about your support block.

Yes No

* any land (outside the milking platform) used for dairy grazing, including grazing of dry cows and dairy replacements (whether or not contiguous to the milking platform) that is owned or leased by the same person or entity as the milking platform and/or farmed in association with the milking platform’.

DAIRY FARM BLOCKS

in the notes section on page 1.


Important Note: With improvements to Overseer it is now the preferred approach to enter the herd numbers by month. This allows for a more robust Overseer file to be created for your farm. If you do not have enough information to complete the monthly table then please leave this page blank and fill in the peak herd table on the following page instead.

EITHER: MONTHLY HERD INPUT

Record all details by month of the milking herd(s) and replacements that are grazed on the dairy farm in the 1 June 2016 to 31 May 2017 period. (Complete table below). Cows wintered off the dairy farm should not be included in the herd number for the month(s) they are off farm.

HERD CALVING DATE (START)

DRYING OFF DATE

PREDOMINANT BREED

NUMBERS ON THE DAIRY FARM FOR EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR FROM 1 JUNE 2015 TO 31 MAY 2016

JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

Milking Herd 1

Milking Herd 2

Milking Herd 3

Calves to weaning

R 1yr heifers

R 2yr heifers

Breeding bulls

Replacement rate of breeding cows (% if known)? %

Once-a-day milking Never Only at drying-off Half of season All season

Calves predominantly fed on powder? Yes No

NOTE: If you have other non dairy animals that graze the dairy farm area (eg beef cattle, sheep etc ) please complete the table for “Other Animals” on the following page.

NOTES:

HERD DATA

OF THE YEAR FROM 1 JUNE 2016 TO 31 MAY 2017


Important Note: If you have fully completed the monthly stock input table on page 3 it is not necessary to enter information in to the “Peak herd Input” table below. All farms that have other stock grazing the dairy farm area should record that information in to the “other Animals” table at the bottom of this page.

OR: PEAK HERD INPUT

If you do not have good monthly stock number information and have not completed the monthly herd numbers table on the previous page please complete the questions and table below.

Record all details of the milking herd(s) that are grazed on the dairy farm in the 1 June 2016 to 31 May 2017 period. (Complete table below).

NUMBER OF COWS CALVED

CALVING DATE (START)

DRYING OFF DATE

PREDOMINANT BREED

NO. OF ANIMALS WINTERED OFF

DATE OFF FARM

DATE RETURNED TO FARM

Milking Herd 1

Milking Herd 2

Milking Herd 3

Once-a-day milking Never Only at drying-off Half of season All season

Replacements? Off farm from weaning Off from 9 months Always on farm

Replacement rate of breeding cows (% if known)? %

OTHER ANIMALS

Other animals grazed on the dairy farm between 1 June 2016 and 31 May 2017. Other animals that are not grazed on the dairy farm do not need to be recorded here.

SPECIES CLASS NUMBER ON-FARM ALL YEAR?

DATE ON-FARM

DATE OFF-FARM

AGE

e.g. Pigs, sheep, cattle

e.g. Bulls, hoggets

Number of animals of this breed and class

Tick this column if animal/s did not leave the property

Date that animals arrived on the property

Date that animals left the property

Enter ‘born’ or enter the age of the animals at arrival on-farm

Ex a mp l e : S h e ep H o g g et s 30 30- J un - 16 1 1 -A u g - 16 1

HERD DATA (continued)


This section records the use of commercial nitrogen fertiliser.

NITROGEN FERTILISER INPUTS

FERTILISER TYPE/NAME Ex a mp l e : B a l l a n c e -U re a BLOCK(S) APPLIED TO Pa stu re B lo c k s 1 a n d 3Month applied (required) JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

Enter quantity (tonnes) 1 . 5 2 1 . 5

FERTILISER TYPE/NAME BLOCK(S) APPLIED TO

Month applied (required) JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

Enter quantity (tonnes)
















Are records available to verify application? Yes No

If yes, where are they kept?

NITROGEN FERTILISER INPUTS


This table records other sources of nitrogen being imported into the farming system.

Use this table if you are using effluent from external sources, compost, chicken manure, factory wastewater or other non-traditional fertilisers. This table should not include farm dairy effluent produced on the property.

EXTERNAL NITROGEN INPUTS

FERTILISER TYPE/NAME Ex a mp l e : C h i c ken m anu re BLOCK(S) APPLIED TO Who l e f a rmMonth applied (required) JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

Enter quantity (tonnes or m3) 100T

Nitrogen content % (if known) 4



Enter quantity (tonnes or m3)

Nitrogen content % (if known)













Are records available to verify application? Yes No

If yes, where are they kept?

NITROGEN INPUTS (other than traditional commercial fertiliser products)


Important Note: Because the Overseer model utilises long term average climate information, please enter irrigation scheduling as it would occur during a typical irrigation season i.e. enter months you would typically irrigate rather than the months you did irrigate during the last season.

Note: If you wish to utilise your nitrogen report to demonstrate compliance with regional council rules; you need to complete the online version of the Nitrogen Recording Pages (https://nzfarmsource.co.nz/) as this will allow you to include additional information about your irrigation system.

The table below only applies to farms that irrigate pastures with fresh water.

FRESH WATER IRRIGATION

BLOCK IRRIGATION MONTH APPLIEDIRRIGATION METHOD

Irrigation Block Name and Area in ha. (should align with block information on page 2)

Tick the months you irrigate pasture with fresh waterEg; pivot, border dyke, K line, travelling irrigator etc

e . g . Pa stu re B lo c k 1 ( 56 h a ) C enter P ivo t

1

2

3

IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS IRRIGATION BLOCK

For the Irrigation Blocks you have set out above which of the following options best describes how you assess soil moisture on the irrigation area? Select from: no assessment, visual assessment/dig a hole, manual water balance, soil moisture monitoring technology

1

2

3

For the irrigation blocks you have set out above; where you have additional information to describe how irrigation is managed/scheduled, please enter it here:

1 2 3

Minimum Application Depth (mm)

Maximum Application depth (mm)

Return Period (days)

Your target soil moisture (mm deficit)

Your trigger point (mm deficit)

NOTES:

FRESH WATER IRRIGATION Do not enter effluent irrigation in to this section, only complete

if there is a freshwater irrigation system on the farm.



Record the details of all supplementary feed on-hand at the start of the 2016/2017 season and describe what you did with that feed during the season.

Do not enter feed you brought in or harvested during the 2016/2017 season here – the table on page 9 records purchased and imported feed.

FEED ON HAND OR IN STORAGE AS AT 1 JUNE 2016

SUPPLEMENT TYPE

SUPPLEMENT SOURCE

EITHER AS DRY WEIGHT?

WHERE FED? (OR ‘SAVED’ IF STILL REMAINING IN STORAGE AT END OF SEASON)

NO. OF BALES AMOUNT

What type of feed is it? e.g. grass silage, PKE, straw, etc.

Where did the feed come from?

Enter the size and number of bales; or

Enter the total tonnage (or stack dimensions or area harvested if tonnes is not known).

Where was the feed fed to the cows? e.g. in the paddock, feed pad, etc.

e . g . G r a s s S i l a g e Pu r c h a s e d - Fe e d s Rus L t d .

50 ( 12 b a l e e qu iva l ent s ) YES Pa ddo c k

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

NOTES:

SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDS AT START OF SEASON


Record all supplementary feed that is either purchased or grown offsite and imported onto your dairy farm during the season.

Feed purchased or imported onto your dairy farm and fed to stock between 1 June 2016 and 31 May 2017, or saved (in storage at season end).

SUPPLEMENT TYPE

SUPPLEMENT SOURCE


WHERE FED? (OR ‘SAVED’ IF STILL REMAINING IN STORAGE AT END OF SEASON)

NO. OF BALES AMOUNT

What type of feed is it? e.g. grass silage, PKE, barley, straw, etc.

Where did the feed come from?

Enter the size and number of bales; or

Enter the total tonnage (or stack dimensions or area harvested if tonnes is not known)

Where was the feed fed to the cows? e.g. in the paddock, shed feed pad, etc.

e . g . M a i z e s i l a g e Pu r c h a s e d – Fe e d s Rus L t d . 10 0 t NO 50 t fe d on fe e d

p a d , 50 t S ave d1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDS BROUGHT ONTO FARM (purchased or imported)


Enter all grass silage, baleage and hay harvested from the dairy farm during the season.

Enter fodder crops and forage crops into the table on page 11.

SUPPLEMENT TYPE WHERE GROWN


WHERE FED? (OR ‘SAVED’ IF REMAINING IN STORAGE AT END OF SEASON)NO. OF BALES AMOUNT

What type of feed is it? e.g. grass silage, baleage, etc

Which Block Enter size and number of bales; or

Enter the total tonnage (or stack dimensions or area harvested if tonnes is not known), i.e. BxHxW

Where was the feed fed to the cows? e.g. in the paddock, shed feed pad, etc

e . g . G r a s s s i l a g e E f f lu ent b l o c k 300 ( 15 b a l e e qu iva l ent s )

YES 200 fe d in p a ddo c k , 100 s ave d b ey on d 3 1 M a y 20 15

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

PASTURE HARVESTED, HAY, BALEAGE, SILAGE

1 7


This table records details of fodder crops that are sown, grown and/or harvested during the season.

EXAMPLE CROP 1 CROP 2 CROP 3 CROP 4

Crop name

Area (ha) ha ha ha ha ha

Pasture block(s) through which the fodder crop rotates

Was the same area cropped last year? y/n y/n y/n y/n y/n

Yield (tonnes DM/ha), if known t/DM/ha t/DM/ha t/DM/ha t/DM/ha t/DM/ha

CULTIVATION METHOD

– Direct drill (tick)

– Minimum tillage (tick)

– Conventional (tick)

Month of first cultivation

Fertiliser (N) applied to crop? If yes, please ensure you have entered information into Nitrogen Fertiliser Input (page 5) y/n y/n y/n y/n y/n

If effluent solids were applied to crop - what month?

If liquid effluent was irrigated to crop - what month?

Irrigation water applied to crop? If yes, please ensure you have entered information into Fresh Water Irrigation (page 7) y/n y/n y/n y/n y/n

Month resown (specify pasture or back into another crop. If into a second crop, describe this crop in a separate column labelled as Crop 2)

PERCENT OF CROP EATEN BY

– Dairy cows % % % % %

– Dairy replacements % % % % %

– Other stock. If ‘Other Stock’ apply, please ensure this section has been completed on page 4 % % % % %

FATE OF THE CROP (COMPLETE RELEVANT)

Grazed in paddock

– % of crop grazed in paddock % % % % %

– Hours grazing/day

– Month and year first grazed

– Month and year last grazed

Cut and Carry

– % fed during season. If yes, where fed?% % % % %

– % exported off farm % % % % %

– % carried over to next season % % % % %

FODDER CROPS / FORAGE CROPS

Ka l e

23Main Pasture Block

11

N o v - 16

J un e

Nov, Dec , J an

NO

Ap r - 1 7

100

50

3

Fe b - 1 7

M a r - 1 7

25 (Feedpad)

25


Complete this page if your farm uses feed pads, stand-off pads, loafing pads or cow housing.

Please check the description at the top of each box to ensure you complete the correct form. Only fill in the table(s) for the system(s) that best describe your farm.

FEED PADS: A hard surface area (i.e. concrete) that is normally sited adjacent to the farm dairy where stock can be held for a period of time (i.e. one to two hours), either prior to ,or after milking, and that is provided with supplementary feed.

MONTH JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

How many hours per day is the pad used?

What percentage of the herd uses the pad?

How is manure removed from the feed pad? i.e. Scraped (no water) or flushed with water?

Over which blocks are the solids from the feed pad applied?

For how long are the solids stored?

Are the solids covered while they are being stored?

STAND-OFF, WINTERING BARNS, OR LOAFING PADS: An area specifically built to enable stock to be withheld from grazing pasture (or crops) during wet periods, with the main aim being to minimise damage to pasture (or crop), or a barn or similar where cows are housed for longer periods.

MONTH JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

How many days per month is the pad used?

How many hours per day is the pad used?

What percentage of the herd uses the facility per month?

What is the surface of the pad/barn made of? (circle or highlight)

Lime or rock mix Sawdust, bark peelings, etc Other

Is there provision for stock feeding?

Is limited grazing used (3-6 hours per day)?

Is the facility covered?

Is liquid effluent captured?

Is the surface scraped regularly?

Over which blocks are the solids from the pad applied?

For how long are the solids stored?

Are the solids covered while they are being stored?

FEED PADS, STAND-OFFS AND HOUSING


IF YOU PROVIDED THIS INFORMATION (EFFLUENT SYSTEM INFORMATION) LAST SEASON AND THERE

HAVE BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES – TICK HERE.

Record the details of the effluent disposal system on your farm.

EFFLUENT DISPOSAL SYSTEM

How do you dispose of effluent?

Irrigated to pasture Discharge to water Both

If you have effluent pond(s) how frequently do you de-sludge them

Where are effluent solids spread? (specify block/blocks & months)

Ex a mp l e : B l o c k s 1 , 2 & 3 - S ep tem b er

PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IF YOU APPLY EFFLUENT TO LAND

How many days effluent storage does the system have?

Effluent irrigation method? e.g. travelling irrigator, through pivot, slurry wagon etc

How do you decide when to irrigate effluent?

If you have more than 3 days of effluent storage, how do you manage your effluent? (circle)

Spray regularly Stir and spray regularlySpray infrequently (circle months below)

If sprayed infrequently, specify months (circle)

Average depth of application?1 <12mm 12 – 24mm >24mm

NOTES:

1 Low rate pods, centre pivot injection or a travelling irrigator that is set-up well and on its fastest setting can achieve depths of less than 12mm.

EFFLUENT SYSTEM


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For more information If you would like more information on the Nitrogen Recording Pages:

• Go online to nzfarmsource.co.nz

• Contact your Area Manager, or

• Phone 0800 65 65 68

• Post your completed form to:Fonterra Co-operative Group LtdNitrogen Recording PagesPO Box 1428Waikato Mail CentreHamilton 3240

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