Pasture Feed budgeting Spreadsheets

This Grazetech suite of Pasture Feed Budgeting Spreadsheets is the culmination of many years of practical experience and refinement. It aims to strike that important balance between simplicity, user-friendliness and powerful outcomes, providing practical tools for pasture managers who want to make better-informed feed management decisions without needing to be spreadsheet experts.

Spreadsheet 1: Forecast Pasture Feed Budget

This Excel-compatible spreadsheet provides a rolling forecast feed budget for a pasture-based farm, enabling feed supply and demand to be planned and tracked month by month across a full season.

Taking a deliberately straightforward approach, the spreadsheet uses 12 linked Period sheets, each covering one budgeting interval. You can enter or adjust period lenght, pasture growth rates, livestock numbers, feed demand and supplement use, and the spreadsheet calculates feed demand, pasture utilisation and forecast Average Farm Cover (AFC) against your target.

Closing figures from each period automatically become the opening figures for the next, linking the entire season into one continuous forecast.

This makes it easy to explore what-if scenarios, such as changing livestock numbers or feeding levels, or closing paddocks to accumulate pasture for later use. You can see how these decisions affect the forecast and thus leverage the full power of forecast pasture feed budgeting in farm management decision making.

The first few periods are pre-populated with dairy livestock examples, which can readily be modified for beef, sheep and other grazing enterprises.

Designed to complement Pasture Feed Budgeting Essentials booklets, the spreadsheet follows the same units and approach to pasture feed budgeting as taken in the booklets, helping you put the principles into practice.

Fully editable: The spreadsheet is not password-protected, allowing you to inspect, modify and adapt it to suit your needs.

Spreadsheet 2: Paddock Records, Feed Wedge and Average Farm Cover Generator

This Excel-compatible spreadsheet provides a practical way to record and analyse historically valuable pasture dry matter (DM) cover record across paddocks and over time.

Enter paddock pasture cover measurements by date, and the spreadsheet helps you maintain paddock records and calculate average daily pasture growth rates for individual paddocks and the farm as a whole.

It also generates pasture feed wedges in both tabular and graphical formats, making it easier to assess the distribution of pasture cover across the farm and decide which paddocks should be grazed when.

Importantly, the spreadsheet generates Average Farm Cover (AFC) records and average daily pasture growth rates — two key inputs required by the Forecast Pasture Feed Budget spreadsheet. Together, these tools connect pasture measurement and record-keeping with forward planning, enabling measured pasture information to inform feed-budgeting decisions.

Fully editable: The spreadsheet is not password-protected, allowing you to inspect, modify and adapt it to suit your needs.