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Rangeland management and assessment, rangeland memo editor, feed budgets, pasture condition assessments, land rehabilitation, extension and training.

Pasture assessment and identification, fire management and planning, scat and track identification.

Indigenous training and employment projects focusing on conservation and land management.

Barkly extension co-ordination and pasture monitoring and assessment.

Beef cattle research in arid rangelands.

Nutrition, pregnancy testing, artificial insemination and fire management.

Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP) & NT Dept. of Primary Industry and Fisheries.
Grazing land management, cattle nutrition, Pregnancy testing and AI, reproduction, new technologies

Arid Zone and Barkly Mitchell grasslands, rangeland ecology; pasture growth modelling and carrying capacity estimates, grazing strategies, fire, climate and
seasonal analysis and prediction.

EID based data collection systems, NIRS sample collection, extension and training.

Native/improved pasture development and management including weed management, specialised machinery design, pasture identification, fencing, floodplain development and management.

Improved pastures, floodplain management, soils, fertilisers, seed production, native pastures, fodder crops, and hay production.

Rangeland ecology and management, grazing trials, GRASP modelling and climate change impacts.

Development of Indigenous Land in the Northern Territory for pastoral/cattle operations with associated employment and financial benefits.

NT DPIF Selected Brahman Herd, EID based data collection systems.

Climate change impacts and mitigation, and; nutrition.

Breeding including pregnancy diagnosis and artificial insemination, breeder management, husbandry and management of buffalo.

Breeder herd management on extensive semi-arid rangelands, mineral nutrition, grazing management, performance levels of breeders and growers in semi-arid northern Australia.

Reproductive performance of beef cattle, animal production systems, animal nutrition and animal welfare.

Heifer fertility, breeder herd efficiency, animal production systems and animal nutrition.

Pasture establishment, leucaena establishment and management, pasture and soil core sampling and monitoring.

Research and extension in sustainable rangeland management: carrying capacity, forage budgeting, grazing systems.

Extensive beef production in north Queensland, cattle nutrition and supplementation, and grazing practices

Beef production systems, economic analysis of beef business performance and cattle nutrition.

Native, improved and irrigated pasture systems, silage production and tropical pasture seed production, breeder herd management, cattle nutrition and supplementation including feedlot and molasses production feeding, cattle marketing, MSA technology, economic analysis of beef business performance, rangeland monitoring, property planning and use of fire in the rangelands.

Extensive beef production systems; management of native rangelands; cattle nutrition and supplementation including dry and wet season lick rations, molasses mixes and heifer and weaner management; breeder herd management; livestock marketing; property layout and infrastructure planning; and communicating latest information/technology to the beef industry.

Beef production systems, herd nutrition, meat science, rangeland ecology, native pastures, grazing management systems, soil conservation, rangeland monitoring, property layout and infrastructure, management of fire in the rangelands, succession planning and rural family communication.

Grazing land management, property mapping and communicating the latest information/technology to the beef industry.

Education, facilitation and holistic business management for grazing enterprises.

Nutrition, parasites, cattle tick eradication programs, disease investigation and surveillance, NLIS compliance, CashCow data collection.

Assisting beef businesses adopt and integrate new technologies in grazing land management and beef production systems. Assisting North Queensland beef producers integrate the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) and Meat Standards Australia (MSA).

Beef production systems, grazing land management, extension methodology, monitoring and evaluation, working with groups to implement best practice, rangeland monitoring, reducing sediment from grazing lands, and project management and design.

The management of grazing lands using stocking rates, fire, sown pastures and fences/stock waters to improve land condition; woody weed management, reclamation of severely degraded land, preventing and repairing erosion on access tracks and other linear features on grazing properties; working with school students to lift the profile of the northern grazing industry and highlight career opportunities in agriculture; Rangeland Champion with Rangelands Australia (UQ Gatton) and working with industry/agency teams to address industry issues.

Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) – a management tool for monitoring and managing beef nutrition. National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) – integrating electric identification into business performance monitoring. Pasture/land condition monitoring and its importance to beef businesses. Cattle performance monitoring and its importance to beef businesses. Dung beetles – their distribution management.

Grazing land management, land condition assessment, workshop facilitation and property mapping.

Breeder herd management, grazing land management, property management and facilitation.

Business and enterprise analysis, cattle nutrition, breeder management, facilitation, adult learning and grazing management.

Grazing land management, nutrition and breeder management.

Grazing land management, rangeland monitoring and Grazing BMP.

Whole property management, animal nutrition and management, pasture management, dry season management including supplementation plans, drought and disaster planning and coordination.

Breeder herd management, cattle nutrition, enterprise analysis and herd modelling, and grazing management.

Extensive beef and sheep production in western and northern Queensland, animal nutrition and supplementation, supply chains, business analysis, rangeland monitoring and grazing management, meat science and marketing specifications.

Agribusiness management, whole property management, enterprise analysis, property development and infrastructure, property and herd recording systems. Extension methodology, monitoring and evaluation, group facilitation and adult learning.

Western Queensland plant identification, native pastures and pasture monitoring, grazing management and toxic plants.

Sheep production, extensive grazing management, environmental management systems, extension and evaluation.

Herd management and animal health, disease and nutrition.

Grazing Best Management Practice in the Burnett Mary and South East Queensland.

Cattle health, welfare and production, property and herd recording systems, data collection and analysis, whole property management.

Beef production systems, nutrition and economics.

Pastures, climate, drought, grazing systems and plant identification.

Intensive beef production in Queensland, in particular: feedlot management, husbandry and markets; whole of business economics and farm integration/planning strategies; integrated lotfed production systems, and; promoting best management practice opportunities. The application, adoption and delivery of eExtension technologies in the intensive beef industry.

Understanding genetics (beef and sheep) including BREEDPLAN and Australian Sheep Breeding Values, education, communication and information management, research, commercialisation, compliance and value adding, and livestock policy.

Electronic communication, extension methodology, project management and change management.

Adult education, project management, cattle nutrition, monitoring and evaluation, and information management.

Animal production