Description
Pâtur’Plan is a software developed in France with an advisory company in 2015 to help farmers to better anticipate grazing management. The main objective is to plan decisions (grazing, cutting, supplements feeding…) according the herd demand and the grass growth expected. Pâtur’Plan can be download on the Elvup site via internet (http://www.orne-conseil-elevage.fr/orne-nos-innovations/paturplan.html) . The objective of this Practice and Science Meeting, organised two times, in May 2017 and 2018 was to exchange with farmers and advisors on Pâtur’Plan use and to consolidate farmers, sometimes uncomfortable with the anticipative approach. This meeting is based on the feedback of experiences with Pâtur’Plan. The participants explained to the others what they have done, what was interesting, complicated, unsuccessful and how they have (or not) solved the problems. Everyone spoke about his own experience and the others discussed. This meeting was extremely rich and exciting for all the participants. They continue to learn and exchange their experiences. To conclude the visit, we have visited the INRA platform to « discover » how Pâtur’Plan is used in an experimental farm. The final evaluation was largely positive with a common conclusion that: Pâtur’Plan helps us to be more confident about our decisions which can be now be constructed less empirically.
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