Breeding EDGE — Townsville

Breeding EDGE is a three-day workshop designed to assist attendees to improve and refine their breeder herd management and genetic improvement plans.

Learn the latest genetic and reproductive knowledge and technologies, that will help you achieve desired production targets.

Attending this workshop will help you to:
• identify where the current breeder herd management program can be improved to reduce reproductive loss
• measure reproductive performance more accurately
• identify strategies and management to improve bull selection, retention, management and performance
• develop, or refine, a practical and achievable management plan for the breeding herd that will lead to higher productivity
• gain a thorough understanding of genetic improvement for both breeding cattle and turnoff cattle and develop breeding objectives to take your herd in a more profitable direction.

What you will learn:
• current herd performance – what measures matter most
• reproduction and reproduction loss
• managing the breeders – systems
• bull fertility and management
• identifying “not so obvious” bull faults that impact reproduction
• reproductive diseases and diseases impacting reproduction
• breeder herd management plans
• genetic improvement of your herd (including breeding objectives)
• genetic principles and selection tools
• selection and selection criteria for traits important to you
• breeds and breeding systems.

Price

1st person from one business = $1,350* +GST (Burdekin catchment producers) OR $1,750 +GST
2nd & 3rd person from same business = $1,050* +GST (Burdekin catchment producers) OR $1,450 +GST

* Subsidy available thanks to NQ Dry Tropics via support from The Herding Change Through Grassroots Recovery project which is funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.

Cost includes comprehensive set of Workshop Notes, Workbook, electronic files, other materials and all catering.

Register now for Breeding EDGE, Townsville, 15-17 June

Contact Felicity Hamlyn-Hill on 0428 113 732.

Download the complete event flyer: Breeding EDGE flyer 2022.06 Townsville