As many readers would know, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Beef Extension Officer, Matt Brown, is a business partner in a beef cattle herd upon which he road tests many best…
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More data is the key to help identify production losses that cost Queensland graziers millions of dollars each year, according to Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) Beef Extension Officer, Roxanne Morgan.…
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A vast area of north-west Queensland, including the northern Mitchell Grass Downs, extending into the Gulf, was damaged after a monsoon trough flooded the area in February 2019. General consensus was that…
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When pastoralists signed up to be part of the E-Beef project they were told that there would be regular meetings on participating stations where attendees would learn about the on-farm advantages of…
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The Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Rural Development’s Business Improvement Grant (BIG) program commenced in 2015 with the aim of helping to improve the performance and resilience of northern beef…
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The amount of pasture that grows each year (or ‘pasture growth’) dictates stock numbers and long-term carrying capacity estimates for properties. Data collected from native pastures from over 100 sites across Queensland…
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The Burger Beef – in what direction is the burger industry heading? How does a country with 327 million people go about producing and supplying enough meat to meet daily consumer demands,…
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Fourteen properties from western Queensland inducted 84 steers (six steers per property) into the 2020 Westech Steer Challenge this February, to begin the 30-week paddock to plate competition. All steers are run…
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Basalt Bash & Beauty is an event for rural and remote women, bringing them together to strengthen social cohesion, reduce the sense of isolation, encourage conversations on key issues and common themes,…
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Calf loss has huge financial impacts on beef producers across northern Australia, reducing productivity and profitability of most breeding herds. To understand the causes of calf loss in northern Australia, Tim Schatz,…
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