Northern Muster is a newspaper feature distributed in the Queensland Country Life and the North Queensland Register newspapers.
Please find below archived editions of the Northern Muster editions dating back to 2011.
Northern Muster is a newspaper feature distributed in the Queensland Country Life and the North Queensland Register newspapers.
Please find below archived editions of the Northern Muster editions dating back to 2011.
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December | Getting stocking rate right, new resource: dry season management, Stocktake App update, prioritising capital infrastructure investments, |
October | A decade of beef research at Spyglass, breed research delivers with the Repronomics project, the impact of low colostrum on calf health, match calving to pasture supply. |
August | Navua sedge, producer focus: Kylie Stretton, breeder body condition score, and land condition in focus. |
June | The role of the Northern Beef Research Council, improving land condition, new rules for animal welfare, prickly acacia control options, and taking steps to be job ready. |
April | The benefits of shade on treeless plains, planning for the long term, Advancing Beef Leaders, and targeting calf loss. |
February | Indian couch, stocking rate is the key to long term productivity and performance, Beef 2021. |
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December | Catching a silent killer, develop a burning strategy and desmanthus on the rise. |
October | Irrigation options in WA, extent of rural debt revealed, Advancing Beef Leaders, and cattle performance data aids grazing decisions. |
August | Using fire as an affordable management option, herd budgeting tool now available online, biocrusts, pasture dieback, and new health declaration available. |
June | Redlands leucaena is up to the job, offline mobile map apps, GrazingFutures, improving natural resources, and Advancing Beef Leaders. |
February | Pain relief options, reef protection, focussing on long term recovery, and Gulf pasture response to flood. |
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Summer | Pastoralist trials pain relief, Sweet Spot project, what if rain doesn't arrive, phosphorus in the north, and toxic botulism. |
Spring | Boosting pasture recovery, bull buying made easy, benefits of new leucaena variety and an introduction to the Paddock Power project. |
Autumn | Financial help for flood affected producers, the effects of floods, encouraging Mitchell grass recovery, phosphorus supplementation, the economics of phosphorus supplementation, business improvement strategies for pastoralists in the Pilbara and Kimberley. |
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Summer | The Sweet Spot project, better landscape utilisation without fences, predicting animal performance from space, new standards for working dog breeders, Barcoo Beef Challenge winners announced, Kidman Springs phosphorus trial results, cull cows, understanding seasonal climate forecasting, minimising biosecurity risk, and making the most of FORAGE. |
Winter | Heifer mating - what works in the south spells disaster for the north, QRIDA, the benefits of selecting on genetics, infrastructure development, repronomics, BREEDPLAN, and buying better bulls. |
Autumn | Adapting and changing, Northern Grazing Systems project update, adaptive management at the Wambiana Grazing Trial, options to increase productivity, improving your beef enterprise, desmanthus, Grazing BMP, Calf Alive and more. |
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Summer | Market report, lay of the land for working dog breeders, GrazingFutures, wet season phosphorus supplementation, maximising the value of cull cows and heifers, grazing for the next generation and more. |
Winter | Market update, Grazing BMP, leucaena leading productivity, aerial seeding of desmanthus at Wambiana, beefing up business skills, nailing supplementation, tail hair samples identifying genetics, supplementation, weaner wisdom, business benchmarking, and more. |
Autumn | Market report, smart stock theft sensors, reducing calf loss, planning ahead for dry times, understanding diminishing marginal returns in a beef business, rehabilitating black basalt country, hidden costs of drought feeding, and more. |
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Summer | Succession, live ultrasound carcass measurements, cut the bull, best management practices driving sustainability, heavy stocking rates leave you short, aiding Mitchell grass recovery, tactics for tough times, preserving pasture for the future, and more. |
Winter | Market report, managing breeder body condition, improved pastures minimise sediment loss, wet season spelling benefiting pastures and pocket, leucaena learning, Northern Gulf news, weed control day, foot and mouth disease, Pest Animal Symposium, new biosecurity laws and more. |
Autumn | AgForce's mapping services, bolstering BMP, Wambiana grazing trial strategies, restocking, live export, Southern Gulf NRM, weed control innovation, climate change impacts, Indian Couch, managing shrub regrowth, Spyglass Research Facility update. |
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Summer | Improving beef business performance, good neighbour program, market report, scrotal size, declaring war on weeds, recording phosphorus intake, investigating heifers after low calving rate, secure your future, MSA feedback on the go, stopping the spread of prickly acacia, planting legumes amongst buffel, flexibility drives profit at Wambiana, target your market, Stocktake Plus, Northern Beef Producers Expo, reduce rubbish to reduce rabbits. |
Spring | Market report, prickly acacia spread, bull selection and forecasting el nino. |
Autumn | Market report, digital soil mapping, reproductive performance, weighing cattle, estimating pasture yield, Climate Clever beef, CashCow project update, MSA optimisation, Clermont Cattlemen's Challenge, drilling for water, and rehabilitating land. |
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Summer | Market report, Beef Expo, Spyglass NIRS, urea supplement, about P8, managing climate, deer study, the digital homestead, faecal seeding, and more. |
Spring | Market report, Spyglass research, weaner feeding, leucaena trials, sown pastures, Clermont Cattlemen's Challenge, Malanda Carcass Challenge, dehorning, and more. |
Autumn | Fire management, market report, drought aid, avoiding Indian couch invasion, StockTake Plus, progardes, surviving the drought, meat matters and more. |
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Summer | Spyglass research, 2013 cattle market report, drought support, stress management, Grazing BMP, spotlight on Beetaloo Station and more. |
Spring | PCAS good news, drought aid, weaner feeding tactics, climate tolerant fodder, rubberbush, beef challenges, fertility drives profit, tick fever threat, bull selection season and more. |
Autumn | Calatrope weed control, beef cost controls, market matters, dealing with the dry, Soils4Grazing project, getting the pasture balance right, inside the US livestock industry, benefits of fixed time AI, and more. |
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Summer | Spyglass on show, thank you Alan Laing, Tablelands fertiliser trial, market report, Multimin and weaners, improved animal health, progeny testing, preg testing at Mount Emu, herd productivity, Tick Fever Centre, phosphorus manual and supplementation options, carbon farming initiative, Next Gen Beef Up, wet season spelling, stylos, pasture legumes for clay, satellite imagery, prickly acacia, and more. |
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Summer | Understanding the MSA grading system, climate watch, herbicide residues, Richmond beef challenge, lease renewal processes, market report, bushfires, water quality project starts, fertilisers and legumes in reef catchments, Hendra virus, worm drench resistance, and the Australian Poll Gene Test. |
Spring | Bill Holmes retires, Grazing BMP, beef business training, tick fever, rangelands conference, winter rain not good for grass, using vaccines, male age of turnoff critical, market report, state of the environment, bull selection tips, phosphorus supplementation, managing wynn cassia, managing sulfur and copper, dry season management and grader grass alert. |
Autumn | Breedcow and Dynama herd budgeting software, HGPs, woody species invasion, tick fever, stock theft, post cyclone recovery, boosting profits with good weaner care, Gulf graziers managing for environmental sustainability, resilience of the Gulf plains, and big wet, big feed, lower dry season feed quality. |