Improvements in and related to agricultural land use

Abstract

A method of providing precise nutrient management in terms of what agricultural interventions are or are not required for obtaining crops / pasture for feeding grazing animals for a future period following said agricultural intervention being deployed, the method comprising the following steps: selecting a geographic area of interest (GAOI); obtaining pasture production map with categorized or graduated mapped sections for pasture production across the GAOI; assessing amount of pasture able to be eaten by a typical stock unit by adjusting pasture production map from step b) to take into account stock utilization for each mapped section within the GAOI; calculating – from said information from step c) – number of stock required to consume feed, taking into account stock utilisation to produce a nutrient / agrochemical application map that replaces nutrient otherwise exported / removed / lost from the GAOI, applying fertiliser as per the nutrient / agrochemical map.

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