Feedlots

FutureBeef asked graziers Kurt Mayne, Ian McCamley, Bruce Mayne and, grazier and feedlot manager Sarah Donovan how they operated their backgrounding and feedlotting businesses.  How Kurt Mayne meet’s…
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Transporting and handling livestock is a specialist task and one which the whole supply chain relies on to be performed safely, efficiently, and professionally to protect our animals,…
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The key variables affecting the profitability of feedlots are: store cattle purchase price finished cattle sale price cost of feed consumed feed intake and liveweight gain. This fact…
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The Weather station review update project built upon the findings of the Weather station review project and conducted a review of automatic weather stations (AWS) that can measure…
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For cattle in a feedlot their risk of heat stress changes from day to day. The Daily heat load monitoring tool project aimed to: develop and test a…
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The Impact of increased climate variability on Australian feedlots project was undertaken to investigate the effects of possible future climate scenarios for each of the five major feedlot…
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The Weather station review project investigated a range of weather stations in order to provide recommendations to feedlot operators who may need to collect weather data for feedlot…
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The Review of diagnostic technologies for monitoring feedlot animal health project undertook a scoping study of current and emerging technologies and systems capable of remotely identifying shy-feeders and…
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The Feedlot education, training and technical services project aimed to deliver information, education, training and technical services to improve management practices among cattle lot feeders throughout Australia, through…
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The Feedlot bedding study followed on from the scoping study, Bedding material use in cattle feedlots (B.FLT.0379 ) and investigated pen surface amendments and assessed the impacts of…
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