Planning some fencing and/or adding new water points are all crucial decisions for property management. Paddock Power is a new computer tool that supports producers with their individual property planning requirements and decision-making.
Planning some fencing and/or adding new water points are all crucial decisions for property management. Paddock Power is a new computer tool that supports producers with their individual property planning requirements and decision-making.
Join Dr Dionne Walsh (Range IQ – formerly NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade (NT DITT)) and Dr Christie Pearson (Livestock Team Leader – NT DITT) in this 2-part (recorded) webinar series when they discuss:
- Paddock Power #1 – what is it and what does it offer?
- Paddock Power #2 – commercial property results (does watered area affect productivity)
You can use the tabs below to select and watch a full recording or use the playlists (below each recording) to jump to the start of a particular section within the recording.
Paddock Power #1 – What is it and what does it offer?
In this webinar recording, Dr Dionne Walsh (Range IQ) outlines and discusses:
- What is Paddock Power and what does it offer?
- Ability for producers to keep their own property maps up to date
- Subdivide paddocks, plan out new water points, fences or pipelines and cost them out before you build them
- Compare different development options to see which one/s will deliver the best “bang for buck”
- Generate reports to take to owners/shareholders/banks to secure funding.
You can watch the full recording or use the playlist below to jump to the start of a particular section within the presentation (40:28; published 12 July 2023 by FutureBeefAu).
Download a copy of the presentation – Paddock Power – planning your paddock development (PDF; 2.90 MB)
Full recording
Playlist
- Paddock Power: Taking the guesswork out of paddock development
- Acknowledgements
- What is the opportunity?
- What is covered in this webinar?
- Paddock Power is a package of two digital tools
- Why did we develop these tools?
- Practical impacts of poor paddock infrastructure
- A more targeted approach to capital allocation
- What can you do in Paddock Power?
- How does Paddock Power assess financial merits?
- Mapping tool demonstration
- Investment calculator demonstration
- How can the Paddock Power tools help you?
- Want to increase your Paddock Power?
Paddock Power #2 – Commercial property results: does watered area affect productivity?
In part 2 of the Paddock Power Webinar series Dr Christie Pearson (NT DITT) outlines and discusses commercial property data from Rocklands and Brunette Downs, including:
- The results of the on-property research related to calf loss and paddock usage
- The spatial behaviours of animals such as their distance to water and total distance travelled in well and poorly watered paddocks
- How overall herd production behaviours may be impacted by watered area of the paddock.
You can watch the full recording or use the playlist below to jump to the start of a particular section within the presentation (15:37; published 25 July 2023 by FutureBeefAu).
Download a copy of the presentation – Paddock Power – commercial property results (PDF; 3.02 MB)
Full recording
Playlist
- Paddock Power – commercial property results
- Paddock Power project
- Paddock Power – overall objectives
- Commercial properties
- Rocklands Station
- Brunette Downs Station
- What data did we collect?
- GPS collars – how did they work?
- What did we do with the data?
- Some preliminary results…
- Crush side data – animal performance
- Distance travelled
- Distance to water
- Home range
- 2020-2021 home range
- 2021-2022 home range
- Total standing dry and matter and Total Cover estimates
- What does this data mean?
- Take home messages
Additional resources
- Business EDGE: a fresh approach to business (Meat & Livestock Australia)
- Department Industry, Tourism and Trade – Northern Territory contacts (FutureBeef)
- Range IQ (Dr Dionne Walsh)
- Bush Agribusiness (Ian McLean).