The new Rapid Pasture Meter offers high speed, accurate pasture measurement from the comfort of your ATV or farm vehicle.   The new Meter has been developed by C-Dax Systems Ltd, while Farmworks has and continues to develop the accompanying PDA and Desktop software. The concept originally came out of the New Zealand Center for Precision Agriculture at Massey University.  Massey continues to provide input into ongoing development of the technology.

The new system is ideally suited to dairy and intensive grazing regimes such as bull beef on flat to rolling terrain.

The Pasture Meter can be used at speeds up to 20 KPH, taking 200 measurements / second, this means one measurement every 27mm so you can guarantee reliable, repeatable results every time.  This allows you to accurately measure grazing residuals (pre & post grazing) for easy identification of poor performing areas of pasture, or palatability issues.

The speed and ease of use of this pasture management tool means that it can even be used to determine the optimum position of electric fences when break feeding to provide optimum feed every time.

The Pasture Meter has been designed to encourage the measurement of pasture residuals which is seen as important to ensure maximum utilisation from your pasture. Much of the guarding around the unit is designed to keep the sensors clean while measuring heavily soiled paddocks.

Initially two versions will be available;

Tier1 - is a read only system that produces pasture cover averages for you to record as you complete each paddock. The system is bundled with P-Plus PastureCover software.

Tier 2 – is enabled with Bluetooth™ wireless and allows you to collect data from multiple paddocks which can be downloaded to your computer, so there is no need to carry a pen and pad with you.

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