With the launch of the MPI Grass-Fed Administrative Standards in June 2025 OverseerFM has moved on from the the old draft AsureQuality Grass-Fed Standard and now uses the terms of the MPI dairy and red meat standards to report on grass-fed status.
The MPI standards are legally recognised administrative standards to give exporters and local brands a single, defensible definition of “grass-fed”, and OverseerFM can help demonstrate if farms are meeting the definitions.
The red meat grass fed standard report provides an indication of whether or not the dairy enterprise of a farm meets the standard.
The meat grass-fed standard criteria
- For meat-producing animals, they must be fed mostly types of grass, and graze outside year-round.
The reporting is available for each individual enterprise which exists within the farm analysis.
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