Projects

The Phone app for pasture management – preliminary investigation into the development of an electronic forage budget and land condition application, for use on existing hand-held devices, for…
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With an estimated annual cost of $350M, cattle ticks, buffalo fly and internal parasites are listed as priority animal health issues facing beef producers in Australia. Although a…
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Losses between confirmed pregnancy and weaning continue to be one of the most important problems confronting beef industries globally. Lane et al (2015) recently estimated that dystocia and…
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Buffalo flies (BF) are ranked as a major health concern by northern cattle producers in many areas. In addition, BF are invasive, and have increased their range southward…
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Leading Sheep will identify and prioritise local industry needs, via regional committees, in the three main sheep and wool producing areas of Queensland. It will deliver best practice information and innovations using a range of methods, face-to-face and online, to producers to help improve their productivity and profitability.

‘Enhancing input to the CQSS2’ a joint project Fitzroy Basin Association-Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries was formed under the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the Natural Heritage Trust extension. This report has three sections: key stakeholder grazing knowledge; economics of land regeneration, and; grazing and sediment trade-offs.

Download a copy of the Carbon capture project final report: an evaluation of the opportunity and risks of carbon offset based enterprises in the Kimberley-Pilbara region of Western…
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Economic modelling of grazing systems in the Fitzroy and Burdekin catchments was a joint project with the Fitzroy Basin Association and the Queensland Department of Employment Economic Development and Innovation. The project…
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The ‘On-property benefits of precision livestock management (PLM) technologies and applications’ project involved researchers and commercial beef producers working together to identify how PLM technologies could be applied at the paddock-level to produce significant benefits.

The ‘On-farm demonstration of the installation and use of remote monitoring of stock water’ producer demonstration site project investigated using telemetry in a large scale commercial setting.