Projects

The project Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland staff are investigating a range of strategies and technologies aimed at making Queensland grazing businesses more profitable and drought resilient.  The project, ‘Delivering integrated…
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Uneven use of the landscape has long been a concern for producers in the extensively managed beef production systems of northern Australia. Historically, the solution to this problem has required costly infrastructure…
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The National livestock export industry – sheep, cattle and goat transport performance report 2017 aimed to summarise the performance of the livestock export industry in terms of mortality levels of sheep, cattle and goats…
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The National livestock export industry – sheep, cattle and goat transport performance report 2016 aimed to summarise the performance of the livestock export industry in terms of mortality levels of sheep, cattle and goats…
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Much of northern Australia is phosphorus (P) deficient (Picture 1), but supplement sales figures and beef research/extension officers tell us that the majority of properties in deficient areas are not supplementing their…
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Legume Best Management Practice in the Brigalow Belt Bio-Region project aims to improve the productivity, profitability and sustainability of beef enterprises through reliable and successful use of pasture legumes. This will be…
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Capturing the advantages of real time information on decision making capabilities on privately owned beef enterprises.

Breeders need the right nutrition to perform well. Is there a sweet spot of pasture utilisation that will sustainably increase breeder productivity in northern Australia? Methods There is an untapped gold mine of…
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The Beef CRC (2005-2012) developed a research program to identify novel tick vaccine candidates and mixtures of vaccines demonstrated promising efficacies in cattle tick challenge trials. The objective of the Cattle vaccination…
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The goal of the project is to test, validate and recommend a set of land condition products (LCPs) to help evaluate the impact of management practice, and practice change, on grazing land…
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