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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.
The ‘Nutrient requirements tables for Nutrition EDGE manuals’ project derived estimates of metabolisable energy and protein requirements, and the relationship between intake and digestibility, for inclusion in a revised version of the northern beef training package, Nutrition EDGE, to bring them into line with the Australian feeding standards.
The ‘Getting more from the National Livestock Identification Scheme (NLIS)’ project demonstrated the use of NLIS as a business management tool on Producer Demonstration Sites (PDS) and provided a key contact for progressing NLIS in Queensland.
Identifying and overcoming barriers to implementing practice change: overcoming barriers to adoption
The ‘Identifying and overcoming barriers to implementing practice change: overcoming barriers to adoption’ project used a business coaching process with producers to investigate barriers to practice change and adoption.
The ‘Review and update of the FutureBeef extension training packages’ project revised and targeted FutureBeef training resources to meet current industry needs and enhance adoption of best management practice.