Audit
Date and Time
Officer Assessing
- Rick Thomason
- Ernie Marks
- Jeff Newton
Location plus Latitude and Longitude
Biomass kg/ha perennial & annual pasture plants
- < 250
- 250 - 500
- 500 - 750
- 750 - 1000
- 1000 - 1500
- 1500 - 2500
- > 2500
Height (cm) average height tussock leaves excluding seed heads
- <5cm
- 5 - 10cm
- 10 - 15cm
- 15 - 20cm
- 20- 30cm
- > 30cm
Dominant Pasture - what plant/s contributing to the majority of available feed.
Dominant Pasture Growth Phase - Development stage of dominant pasture species.
- P1 - short leafy growth in tussock - or new
- P2 - We’ll developed leafy tussock
- P3 - Stem and seed growth
- P4 - Mature plant
- Butts or coarse stems
Pasture Quality - the value comprising > 70% of the pasture
Perennial Pasture Density - (don’t include annual pasture plants)
- None
- Isolated
- Very Sparse
- Sparse or Open
- Med - Dense
- Closed or Dense
Pasture Ground Cover - % attached pasture tussocks & canopies
- <10%
- 10 - 30%
- 30 - 70%
- >70%
Declared Pest Plants (DPP)
Declared Pest Plant Density
- Closed Dense
- Mid Dense
- Sparse or open
- Very sparse
- Isolated
- None
Declared Pest Plant Reproductive Status
- Both seeding and flowering
- Seeding
- Flowering
- None
Pest Animals
Woody Plant Density (all woody plants >2m tall include woody DPP > 2m
- Closed Dense
- Mid Dense
- Sparse or open
- Very sparse
- Isolated
- None
Photograph of site
