For example, farm mixes are often premixed once a week and then consumed throughout the week. In addition, these are of course fed from own and purchased feed, the range of which must also be kept in mind.

Here are two recommendations:

How does my farm mix affect the range of my existing feed (own + purchased)?

1. Create a contract for each feedstuff that goes into the farm mix and for which you want to keep an eye on the range. Either you have fixed time periods from a purchase contract or you make a fictitious contract with yourself (e.g. as described above for self-harvested feed).
2. You only need to enter deliveries here, if there are any (harvest, deliveries by dealers, etc.), so that you can record the receipts correctly. Otherwise, it is also sufficient to record the current stock using manual inventory. You can enter an inventory, for example, by clicking on the “Inventory & feed consumption” button in the top right-hand corner of the contract management screen. There you can enter the current stock from this morning before the feedings in the centre.
3. Now enter the consumption caused by mixing the farmyard mix. Depending on the source of consumption, the following recommendations result:

You can see which consumption source is currently active in Contract Management by clicking on the “Inventory & feed consumption” button at the top right. There you can switch between consumption from rations or manually (manual entry) on the right-hand side.

3a) Manual consumption: As the consumption is entered per day, calculate the amount of feed that you need to mix the farm mixture by the number of days that this mixture should last. For 1 tonne for 7 days, for example, 1000kg/7=143kg per day.

3b) Consumption from rations: This option makes sense if you also use it to keep your other contracts automatically updated from the ration planning in consumption. Create a separate feed group for the farm mix with the name “Farm mix” (feed group settings are irrelevant). Create a ration in this group. The ration contains the mixed recipe of your farm mix (this has other advantages – see here in the second section under “Creating adaptable compound feed”).

Is my farm mix sufficient or do I need to prepare more/less?

If the above consideration of the feed contained in the mixture is not sufficient, you can also create another contract for the mixture itself. When creating a contract, use an existing compound feed on the farm or one from the database – never use other feed available on the farm so as not to falsify the forecast there.

The contract period and total contract quantity should be sufficiently large, as these will otherwise limit the deliveries (your mixes) in terms of amount and date. Don’t worry, you can adjust both at a later date if you come up against limits here.

When creating the contract, you can then use the interval method to schedule deliveries for this farm mix contract at the rhythm of your mixing – e.g. 1 tonne once a week on Mondays.

Then set the consumption to activate the forecast. You can see which consumption source is currently active in contract management by clicking on the “Inventory & feed consumption” button at the top right. There you can switch between consumption from rations or manually (manual input) on the right-hand side.

• Manual consumption: Enter the consumption of your farm mix as it currently appears in your feed.
• Consumption from rations: This option makes sense if you also keep your other contracts automatically updated from the ration planning in consumption. If you do not already have this, create a separate feed group for the farm mix with the name “Farm mix” (feed group settings do not matter). Create a ration in this group. The ration contains the recipe for your farm mix (this has other advantages – see here in the second section under “Creating adaptable compound feed”).