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Expertise: Irrigated agriculture, animal nutrition and extension.

Expertise: Extension, northern beef production systems, animal health and disease, and nutrition management.

Extension, livestock production, animal disease and biosecurity.

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

Decision making framework, grazing land management, extension methodology, rangeland monitoring

Land resource mapping, soil conservation and land rehabilitation, arid rangelands land management, developing and presenting extension materials for the pastoral industry.

Data management, feral animal management and ecological monitoring.

Self herding project facilitator, data collection, extension material development.

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

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.

Christie has completed a PhD focussing on beef reproductive performance in northern Australia, breeder behaviour and calf survival; and has experience with remote monitoring technologies and northern beef production systems.

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

Elle has an interest in increasing efficiency of beef production within northern Australia with expertise in bull breeding soundness and fertility.

Livestock research, animal production systems, herd data management systems (NLIS)

Beef herd fertility, genetic selection, herd recording, data analysis, EID based data collection systems and the Repronomics II project.

Georgia has experience in northern beef production systems, data collection and field work.

Stacey holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science, has experience in northern beef production systems and throughout the beef supply chain.

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.

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.

Beef business planning and management incorporating everything from herd productivity to succession planning

Beef production systems, breeding and genetics, performance data and herd recording.

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.

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).

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, including land condition assessment, photo monitoring sites and forage budgeting. Building capacity in staff and graziers to develop resilient communities through access to training such as Mental Health First Aid.
Working with landholders to implement best management practices.

Grazing land management, nutrition and breeder management.

Herd recording, data collection and finding out more about the incidence and impact of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD, also known as pestivirus) in beef herds.

Options analysis and herd modelling, decision support tools training, herd recording, group facilitation and adult learning.

Grazing land management, beef production systems and supplementation.

Agricultural soil conservation practices, grazing land management, GIS and UAV remote sensing.

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

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

Forage systems and legumes
Grazing management
Nutrition
Goats

Sown pastures
Legume establishment
Leucaena
Pasture dieback

Pasture Dieback, sown pasture and legume establishment, pasture monitoring, drones and data management

Breeder management and cattle markets

Stud cattle, genetics and reproduction technologies.

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

Working in beef research and extension projects in northern Australia, including analysis of whole of business profitability herd dynamics when adopting different management practices.

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

Business management and enterprise analysis.

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.

Remote sensing and GIS (desktop and ground mapping)
Vegetation management (Mulga)
Practical experience and networks in south-west Queensland

Herd management and animal health, disease and nutrition.

For more information about beef and sheep research in South West Queensland, please contact Jed Sommerfield on (07) 4530 1256.

Property biosecurity, herd management and animal health, welfare, disease and nutrition.

Beef production systems, nutrition and economics.

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

Feedbase research and development projects across southern and central Queensland and organisation of the Productive and Persistent Legume Pastures workshops.

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

I cover a little bit on a broad range of topics. I coordinate all the research trials on site so I guess I have a lot of practical knowledge in;
• breeder management
• herd recording and analysis of performance
• pasture management and forage budgeting
• Grazing BMP compliance and I also provide support to the Grazing BMP extension staff through assisting in workshops. Quite often we are asked to attend to provide advice from a practical perspective as we carry out best management practice recommendations on site here at Brian Pastures.

• Technologies available to meet the Australian red meat industries sustainability goals
• Extensive and intensive livestock systems
• Plant physiology
• Leucaena/grass pastures

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

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

The application, adoption and delivery of eExtension technologies across the northern Australian beef industry and promoting best management practice opportunities.

Uploading events to the FutureBeef events calendar, FutureBeef Twitter content composer, eBulletin content compiler.