Axes definitions

Note

See Table 1: Land uses represented by the rotation phases. for a list of the land use acronyms.

Table 1: axes definitions.

Key	Axis definition
a0	Weaning time of the animal itself
a1	Weaning time of the progeny of the dam (this year)
b0	Birth type rear type (BTRT) of the animal itself
b1	Litter size lactation number (LSLN) of the dam (this year)
c0	Enterprise (stock or crop). Used for interest calculation.
d	Dam age (the age group of the animals mother at the time of birth)
e0	Estrus cycle the animal itself was conceived in
e1	Estrus cycle in which the dam conceived this year
f	Nutritive value pool
g0	Genotype options for sires
g1	Genotype options for dams
g2	Genotype options for young at foot
g3	Genotype options for offspring
h1-9	Husbandry
i	Time of lambing
k	all land uses
k1	crop land uses
k2	pasture land uses
k2 (in the stock module)	LSLN cluster
k3 (in the stock module)	dam age cluster
k5 (in the stock module)	BTRT cluster
l	land management unit
m
n	nutrition option for the stock
o	FOO level
p	stock generator period
p0	A 2 hourly step for calculations associated with an increase in heat production in cold weather (12 long)
p1	An axis to represent daily time steps for some calculations that are very age sensitive
p2	To allow calculation of a rolling average for wool production
p3	To allow calculation of a rolling average for increased energy requirements associated with organ response to increased energy intake.
p4	Monthly time step
p5	Labour period
p6	Feed period
p7	Season period
p8	Ram joining period
p9	Shearing & sale periods
q	Year of the season sequence
r	Rotations
s	Crop usage (harvest, bale or graze) or
s	history of the season sequence
t	Stock sale options (within a DVP)
v	Stock decision variable periods
w	Stock nutrition profile (starting weight and ‘n’)
x	Gender
y	Phenotypic merit
y	year
z	season type