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Breeder management field day

Date: Friday 24 October 2014
Time:
10:00am-4:00pm AEST
Event category:
Venue Burleigh Station
Richmond, Qld 4822 Australia
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Herd dynamics, remote monitoring and nutrition

10:00 – 10:30am Morning smoko

10:30-11:30am Cash Cow – northern Australia beef fertility project

  • Dr. Geoffry Fordyce QAFFI and Dave Smith DAF
  • What are achievable levels of performance in a breeder herd?
  • Key production measures for northern herds

11:30-12:30pm Burleigh supplement trial – A new supplement and remote technology trial

  • Professor Roger Hegarty (UNE) and Joe Miller (UNE)
  • Using remote monitoring technologies to unlock the behavioral and nutritional strategies of highly successful breeders
  • Autodrafters and remote technologies
  • Using nitrate to supply non-protein nitrogen and reduce methane emissions
  • How can we improve the precision of supplementation?

12:30-1:00pm Q & A for all presentations

1:00-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-4:00pm Burleigh trial site demonstration – inspection of autodrafters, remote cameras and lick monitoring technologies in the paddock

Smoko, lunch and refreshments provided. Air strip available.

RSVP Tuesday 21 October 2014

For more information and to RSVP please contact Joe Miller M: 0477 374 424 E: joseph.miller@une.edu.au