Sustainable grazing management of rangeland goats

Goat producers – this is your opportunity to further your understanding on managing livestock sustainably in their environment to ensure long-term landscape productivity, industry viability and environmental health.

This FREE Meat & Livestock Australia Goat Roadshow Webinar will seek to provide an overview of how rangeland goat producers can best optimise their operations to maximise productivity and sustainability in the rangelands. This includes understanding the grazing and browsing behaviours of goats, how to manage them effectively, and how to gain a further understanding of how goats utilise the landscapes and resources so you can optimise infrastructure investments e.g. fencing and water sources.

Speakers will highlight the importance of understanding the impact production changes, such as moving from an unfenced to fenced environment, a change in stock numbers or a mixed-livestock enterprise, can have on the rangeland environment. How, what, and where goats graze when compared with animals they share the environment with – sheep, kangaroos and cattle – and how that can impact the grazing pressure and long-term sustainability of the rangeland environment. The webinar will also cover rangeland soil carbon and landscape rehabilitation. Given the low rainfall of this environment, the importance of maintaining soil carbon is driven by the need to ensure the landscape continues to be productive.

Goat producers are invited to hear from MLA as well as:
• Project lead within the Carbon Storage Partnership and Systems Modelling Team Leader at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA), Associate Professor Matthew Harrison
• Queensland cattle and goat producers – Peter and Georgia Whip, PRW Agribusiness
• Grazing/browsing preferences of goats, cattle, sheep and kangaroos – Lester Pahl, Qld Agriculture and Forestry, Toowoomba
• Spatially resilient grazing systems and goat behaviour in the landscape – Mark Trotter, CQ University

REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE WEBINAR.

Click here to view the full webinar flyer.