In the absence of an agreed national standard for the definition of grass fed, Overseer uses the terms of the draft AsureQuality Grass-Fed Standard to enable the definitions and sets a minimum criteria for feed management practices for the farming of bovine animals for dairy production.
The Dairy grass fed standard report provides an indication of whether or not the dairy enterprise of a farm meets the draft Grass-Fed Standard by AsureQuality farm level requirements.
These requirements include a grass-fed diet no less than an annual minimum of 95% (based on the weight of wet matter) and access to pasture for no less than an annual minimum of 95% of their non-milking time. These percentages are shown at the top of the report:
The percentages are then further broken down in to two tables:
The first table shows the monthly breakdown of the wet matter (WM) fed to the dairy enterprise from grass-fed compliant feed in kg WM and as a percentage of the total wet matter they were fed in each month.
Table 1: Source of grass-fed standard feed
The second table shows shows a monthly breakdown of the estimated time the dairy enterprise spent on non-milking structures in hours and as a percentage of the total hours in each month. This helps to understand the amount of time dairy enterprise animals have access to pasture by considering where they are when not milking and not on structures.
Table 2: Understanding time on pasture