Projects

The ‘Additional measurements on muscle line cattle’ project investigated the impact of selecting for different levels of muscling on progeny performance in an Angus herd.

The ‘walk over weigh’ or ‘WOW’ project demonstrates using walk over weighing and remote camera monitoring on a Richmond property in North Queensland.

The ‘Managing the detrimental effects of indospicine through rumen metabolism’ project aims to deliver a rumen inoculum to mitigate the detrimental effects of the plant toxin indospicine on cattle.

Seed production projects aim to develop and improve pasture species for the northern grazing industry.

The $avannaPlan-Beef$ense project is an integrated, on-property service that assists beef producers to identify and implement specific financial and business management strategies to improve the viability of their enterprise.

The ‘Promising pastures’ project investigates recently released or advanced varieties of pasture grasses and legumes for beef finishing and breeding systems in northern Queensland.

The ‘Next gen beef breeding strategies for the northern Australian beef industry’ project investigated genetic and genomic strategies to increase beef reproductive efficiency in northern Australia.

The ‘Lifting leucaena adoption in North Queensland’ project uses a producer demonstration site (PDS) to investigate establishing and managing leucaena and its impact on livestock production.

The Kidman Springs fire experiment (also known as the ‘Shruburn experiment’) tests if and how fire can be used to manage increasing woody cover in grazed savannas in northern Australia.

The ‘Assessing productivity gains for cattle grazing “Redlands” (R12) leucaena in northern Queensland’ project will investigate the performance of weaners grazing the new psyllid resistant leucaena variety ‘Redlands’ relative to an existing commercial leucaena variety (Wondergraze).