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28 Cards in this Set
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What processes does the farmer do in spring?
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Rearing and Weaning
Cut Silage Topdressing |
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What are some reasons for this happening in spring?
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The artificial insemination is timed to make the cows give birth during the season with the highest grass growth. The excess grass growth is also responsible for silage and topdressing as the nutrients are being rapidly depleted
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What processes does the farmer do in summer?
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Haymaking
Plant fodder Cull Sow winter crops tagging milking |
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What are some reasons for this happening in summer?
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The warm climate and excess grass growth means ideal conditions for making hay. Bobby calves and poor producers are accessed and removed to improve efficiency
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What processes does the farmer do in Autumn?
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Dry off
Supplmentary feed Topdressing Break feeding Cull drenching |
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What are some reasons for this happening in autumn?
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The cows have had their calves and they stop producing milk after 9 months. Lack of grass growth means supplmentary feeding and heavy rainfall forces the farmer to break feed or risk pugging
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What processes does the farmer do in winter?
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Topdressing
Feed hay To run off Dry off cows Slow rotation Maintenance |
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What are some reasons for this happening in winter?
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due to the cold climate in some areas the cows may be forced into electric huts to keep them warm. The slow grass growth means that the cows are forced on supplementary feeds and since many of them have stopped lactating there is no reason to feed them as much. The farmer also has the most time in winter to repair and upgrade equipment
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What are the 11 IGIS?
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Location
Distance Accessibility Processes Patterns Region Interaction Change System Culture Perception |
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What are the natural inputs necessary for a Dairy Farm?
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Natural
land Sun (600-2500) Rain (800-1200mm) Fertile soil |
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What are the cultural inputs necessary for a dairy farm?
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People's labour
knowledge and skill (e.g contractors, professional services_ transport: tractors motorbikes trucks money facilities machinery tools fertiliser sprays/pesticides trees/hedges seed cows (friesian or Jersey) |
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What are the processes necessary in a dairy farm?
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Milking
harvesting culling tagging spraying fencing drenching feeding out break feeding calving Artificial insemination weaning sowing maintenance |
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What are some of the positive outputs of a dairy farm?
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Grass
milk silage bobby calves |
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What are some of the negative outputs of a dairy farm?
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Animal disease
pollution effluent |
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What are some of the losses of a dairy farm?
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Dead cows
spray drift to nearby regions soil erosion stock energy loss raw effluent down the streams milk dumping |
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What are some of the feedbacks of a dairy farm?
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profits from output
calves for replacement and breeding stock manure silage |
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What are inputs?
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natural and cultural elements that enable dairy farming to happen
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what are processes?
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daily activities that happen on a dairy farm to produce outputs
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what are outputs?
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the result of processes that happen on a farm
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What are losses?
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elements that cannot re enter the dairy farming system
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What are feedbacks?
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outputs that can be reused on the dairy farm
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Who controls the use of dairy farming resources?
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producer boards
consumers service agencies regional council government farmer |
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What interaction is there between the dairy farm and the consumer?
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change in their demand influences farm profit
buys the milk and dairy products |
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What interaction is there between the dairy farm and the producer boards?
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return profits to the farmer so that the farm can operate
get the best possible price for farmers sell and promotes the dairy products locally and overseas purchase milk from farmers |
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What interaction is there between the dairy farm and service agencies?
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accountants provide financial advice and help control spending
banks provide money loans mortgages and financial advice to help improve the farm contractors are used by the farmer for specialist or large jobs vets treat sick animals and help the farmer with health problems researchers give the farmer information on new techniques and methods farm advisers give the farmer advice on managing the farm |
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What interaction is there between the dairy farm and the regional council?
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build and maintain the roads allowing access to the farms
develop enforce and monitor pollution controls how a farmer uses natural resources maintains local rivers and streams |
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What interaction is there between the farmer and the dairy farm?
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controls what activities happen
controls daily management and maintenance |
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What regions are there dairy farming in NZ?
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Waikato lowlands
bay of plenty lowlands tauraki lowlands canterbury plains Southland lowlands Northland lowlands hauraki lowlands |
