Assessing options for drought recovery — 8. Options for recovery
This is the first of two recorded presentations, demonstrating how to assess management options when recovering from drought.
In this presentation, Fred Chudleigh (Agricultural Economist, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) discusses and demonstrates how to assess options in the drought recovery phase.
You can watch the full recording (35 minutes) or use the playlist below to jump to the start of a particular section within the presentation.
Playlist
- Options for recovery
- Recover from drought
- Recovery from drought – tools to assess
- The impact on recovery in numbers
- The impact on cash
- Recovery strategies to fill the gap in grazing pressure
- Recovery strategies after selling the pregnancy tested empty (PTE) breeders
- Purchase pregnancy tested in calf (PTIC) cows to rebuild the herd
- Taking stock on agistment
- Trading cattle – how to assess options
- Trading steers
- Spreadsheet example: Bullocks – trading yearling steers as recovery strategy
- Trading cows and calves
- Spreadsheet example: Cowtrade – buy PTIC cows as recovery strategy
- Which indicator?
- Trading steers
- Summary of recovery strategies
- Where to next?
Excel spreadsheets
Excel – 6 Trading yearling steers as recovery strategy
Excel – 7 Cowtrade buy PTIC cows as recovery
This recording has been compiled within the Improving profitability and resilience of beef and sheep businesses in Queensland—Preparing for, responding to and recovering from drought project.
More in this series:
Assessing options for drought recovery
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