Pioneer - brand seeds


To calculate your cost per unit of drymatter and energy, please enter your values in the input boxes for price, drymatter and energy content to reflect your current, local on-farm prices of supplements for your farming operation.
		Your price (Unit)		Drymatter	Drymatter cost	Energy content	Energy cost
				%	c/kgDM	MJME/kgDM	c/MJME

	Forages grown on-farm*
	Maize silage (stacked)		c/kgDM	n/a
	Other:		c/kgDM	n/a
	Forages purchased in
	Maize silage (stacked)		c/kgDM	n/a
	Grass silage (high quality) (baled & delivered)		$ / big bale (150 kgDM)	n/a
	Grass silage (average quality) (baled & delivered)		$ / big bale (150 kgDM)	n/a
	Concentrates
	Maize grain (delivered)		$ / tonne
	Barley (delivered)		$ / tonne
	Wheat (delivered)		$ / tonne
	Dairy meal (delivered)		$ / tonne
	By-products
	Molasses (delivered)		$ / tonne
	Palm kernel extract (delivered)		$ / tonne
	Tapioca (delivered)		$ / tonne
*The economics of crops grown on-farm will depend on the DM yield as well as the cost per kgDM or energy. To maximise your return choose a high yielding crop with a low cost per unit of energy or drymatter.

ABBREVIATIONS MJME = megajoules of metabolisable energy per kilogram of drymatter kgDM = kilograms of drymatter DM = drymatter IMPORTANT INFORMATION All default values are indicative only. Maize silage on-farm prices are based on Pioneer^® Brand Maize Silage 2009-10 (page 30) and were current as at 1 April 2009. For pricing relevant to your farm, please enter actual product purchase price, drymatter percentage and feed energy value.