Resources
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The ‘Accelerating the use of grazing land management tools’ project aims to increase the uptake of decision support tools like FORAGE to assist property managers with their grazing land management decisions.
The ‘Myco-insecticide for nuisance fly control in cattle feedlots’ project will improve and evaluate Metarhizium based myco-insecticide with a view to developing a commercial product for use in cattle feedlots.
The Wambiana grazing trial started in 1997 and continues today to test and develop sustainable and profitable strategies to manage for rainfall variability in extensive grazing lands.
The ‘Improving productivity of rundown sown grass pastures’ project aims to address the problem of declining sown grass pasture production in northern Australia.
The ‘Precision pastoral management tools (PPMT)’ project aims to develop a commercial Precision Pastoral Management System (PPMS) that will integrate remotely collected, precision data on cattle and pasture management, using minimal labour inputs.
The ‘Beef business mentoring program’ aims to increase beef producer business knowledge and improve the profitability of northern Australian beef enterprises through a structured mentoring process.
The ‘eExtension’ project investigates the use of eExtension tools to regularly connect and engage with clients and stakeholders.
The Selected Brahman project (Northern Territory) aims to improve fertility rates in Bos indicus cattle by focusing on genetic improvement.
The ‘Polled gene marker test and fixed time insemination’ producer demonstration sites demonstrates using the polled gene marker test to increase the frequency of polled progeny and the use of fixed time insemination in commercial Northern Territory herds.
The ‘Genotyping and phenotyping for accelerated genetic improvement in northern Australia’ project aims to increase the accuracy of genetically describing the reproductive merit of northern breeding cattle.