Improving Productivity and Profitability in Grazing – Technology Driven Decisions (E-Beef online series #1)

The E-Beef online series involves four sessions over four weeks in June (2020), providing landholders, extension staff and industry stakeholders with key insights on new and emerging technologies relevant to the grazing industry.

This is the first webinar recording in the four-part E-Beef series that focuses on improving productivity and profitability in grazing.

This recording discusses some available technologies that can be used to drive on-property decision-making processes:

• satellite imagery data for pasture and grazing management
• walk-over-weighing systems for capturing real-time data remotely.

By watching the full recordings you will hear from three very experienced presenters:

1. David Phelps (Principal Grazing Land Scientist, DAF) when he provides a background E-Beef, including aims and objectives and talks about the pasture greenness index.
2. Grant Stone (Principal Scientist, DES) when he discusses the growing field of satellite imagery and the sorts of tools available e.g. FORAGE.
3. Tim Driver (Director, Precision Pastoral | Tru-Test) when he details walk-over-weighing in cattle production systems and how to get the most out of the technology.

https://youtu.be/Tt_w4lKlrmI?si=3X4uw2CnABURDX_X

Playlist

1. The pasture greenness index
2. A brief history of E-Beef
3. The precision Pastoral Management Tool
4. The ‘Normalised Difference Vegetation Index’ (NDVI)
5. NDVI use across a season
6. How can NDVI be used
7. NDVI use across the paddock or property
8. NDVI not only measures green
9. What does NDVI measure?
10. NDVI linked to cattle liveweight
11. Understanding the interplay between NDVI and liveweight
12. The main ideas in E-Beef…
13. Summary.

https://youtu.be/1HgyvDZrgTI?si=lz2eqccTW8KA1HOw

Playlist

1. FORAGE reports for assisting land management decision-making
2. Outline
3. So how do our products assist?
4. Long Paddock website delivery portal
5. FORAGE property reports
6. DES’s Remote Sensing Centre (RCS) provides…
7. Combining the major aspects of climate, pasture and grazing environment
8. The reports – briefly
9. I. Indicative Land Type report
10. II. Rainfall and Pasture report
11. III. Drought Assessment report
12. IV. Regional Climate Projections report
13. V. Erodibility report
14. VI. Foliage Protective Cover report
15. VII. Crop Frequency and Type report
16. VIII. Fire Scar Map report
17. IX. Ground Cover Map report
18. X. Ground Cover Regional Comparison report
19. XI. Pasture Growth Alert report
20. Using reports for productivity – how to interpret them
21. Requesting FORAGE property reports
22. Who uses FORAGE?
23. Long Term Carrying Capacity report
24. My FORAGE on-line property mapper
25. Pasture Biomass estimates from satellite imagery
26. VegMachine – Four seasons of Fractional Cover
27. Pasture digestibility (DMD) impact on animal liveweight gain
28. Common industry questions
29. Forecasting liveweight gain (ADG)
30. Some final words…

https://youtu.be/TLJna9Rv0eo?si=H3__wLj-AV90bQVk

Playlist

1. Weigh, track and process cattle remotely
2. Remote ‘Walk-Over-Weighing (WOW)’ system
3. Northern beef ‘Precision Pastoral Management Tools’ (PPMT)
4. Remote WOW dashboard
5. Combining satellite data with liveweight
6. Forecast herd average and distribution
7. Visibility (of data across boundaries).

Other webinars in the E-Beef series

← Improving Productivity and Profitability in Grazing – Managing for profitability (E-Beef online series #2)

← Improving productivity and profitability in grazing – Technology Showcase – Part 1 (E-Beef online series #3)

← Improving productivity and profitability in grazing – Technology Showcase – Part 2 (E-Beef online series #4)