This article explains the key metrics found on your Operations Dashboard.
Choosing metrics to display
(To add or remove key metrics from your dashboard:
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Click on "View all key metrics" in the bottom right hand corner.
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This will take you to another screen
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Tick on the metrics to be displayed on your dashboard
Livestock Metrics
1. Stock Numbers - Grazing = This is the total number of head in all mobs/herds that are assigned to paddocks on your property as at today's date.
2. Total Grazing Demand = This is the total daily stocking rate on your property as at today's date. The result is calculated by summing the Head x Rating per Stock Class in all Mobs/Herds today
3. Stocking Rate - Annualised = This is the total rating for the last 12 months reduced to an average per day to compare to the actual stocking rate today and the suggested stocking rate.
4. Stocking Rate - Today = This is the daily stocking rate per Hectare as at today's date, calculated as Total Rating / Total Area of your property.
5. Mobs Grazing = This is the total number of active mobs/herds grazing on your property as at today's date.
6. Stocking Rate/100mm or Stocking Rate/1 inch = This is the stocking rate for your property for the last 12 months per 100mm/1 inch of rolling rainfall received for the last 12 months.
This value gives an early indication of the current stocking rate trending above or below the expected carrying capacity for the actual rain received.
By making stocking rate per unit of rainfall, this measure forces us to think about the current season, not the average, and to be pro-active in matching stocking rate to the current season while there is still time to be ahead of the market.
7. Rolling Stockdays - Last Month = A 12-month rolling average of your recorded monthly stockdays calculated as at the last day of the previous month.
Rainfall
8. Rolling rainfall = Rolling rainfall is the total rainfall since this day last year, so it is the annual rainfall, re-calculated every day.
This value gives an early indication of a drying or wetter trend before it is visually apparent.
Benchmarks and Statistics
9. Carrying Capacity/100mm or Carrying Capacity/1 inch= Different land, soil and pasture types will have different capacity to convert rainfall to feed based on their bio-physical characteristics and their management. This value is used to calculate the variance of current stocking rate to rainfall and rainfall variance to current stocking rate
10. Total Grazing Area = The total area available for grazing on your property.
This excludes paddocks/pastures removed via the grazing availability feature. For example: Paddock/pasture under crop temporarily or undergoing development.
11. Days Feed Available = This figure is drawn from the pasture inventory screen and is calculated using entered grazing observations.
12. Total Feed Available = This figure is drawn from the pasture inventory screen.
13. Rainfall Variance To Stocking Rate = This is the difference between the current rolling rainfall today and what it would be were the property to have been run at the current benchmark carrying capacity.
What matters is the scale of the change indicated. The greater the variance the greater the urgency should be to become pro-active in stocking rate adjustment.