Planning some fencing and/or adding new water points are all crucial decisions for property management. Paddock Power is a new computer tool that supports producers with their individual property planning requirements and decision-making.
Planning some fencing and/or adding new water points are all crucial decisions for property management. Paddock Power is a new computer tool that supports producers with their individual property planning requirements and decision-making.
Join Dr Dionne Walsh (Range IQ – formerly NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade (NT DITT)) and Dr Christie Pearson (Livestock Team Leader – NT DITT) in this 2-part (recorded) webinar series when they discuss:
- Paddock Power #1 – what is it and what does it offer?
- Paddock Power #2 – commercial property results (does watered area affect productivity)
You can use the tabs below to select and watch a full recording or use the playlists (below each recording) to jump to the start of a particular section within the recording.
Paddock Power #1 – What is it and what does it offer?
- What is Paddock Power and what does it offer?
- Ability for producers to keep their own property maps up to date
- Subdivide paddocks, plan out new water points, fences or pipelines and cost them out before you build them
- Compare different development options to see which one/s will deliver the best “bang for buck”
- Generate reports to take to owners/shareholders/banks to secure funding.
Playlist
- Paddock Power: Taking the guesswork out of paddock development
- Acknowledgements
- What is the opportunity?
- What is covered in this webinar?
- Paddock Power is a package of two digital tools
- Why did we develop these tools?
- Practical impacts of poor paddock infrastructure
- A more targeted approach to capital allocation
- What can you do in Paddock Power?
- How does Paddock Power assess financial merits?
- Mapping tool demonstration
- Investment calculator demonstration
- How can the Paddock Power tools help you?
- Want to increase your Paddock Power?
Paddock Power #2 – Commercial property results: does watered area affect productivity?
- The results of the on-property research related to calf loss and paddock usage
- The spatial behaviours of animals such as their distance to water and total distance travelled in well and poorly watered paddocks
- How overall herd production behaviours may be impacted by watered area of the paddock.
Playlist
- Paddock Power – commercial property results
- Paddock Power project
- Paddock Power – overall objectives
- Commercial properties
- Rocklands Station
- Brunette Downs Station
- What data did we collect?
- GPS collars – how did they work?
- What did we do with the data?
- Some preliminary results…
- Crush side data – animal performance
- Distance travelled
- Distance to water
- Home range
- 2020-2021 home range
- 2021-2022 home range
- Total standing dry and matter and Total Cover estimates
- What does this data mean?
- Take home messages
Additional resources
- Business EDGE: a fresh approach to business (Meat & Livestock Australia)
- Department Industry, Tourism and Trade – Northern Territory contacts (FutureBeef)
- Range IQ (Dr Dionne Walsh)
- Bush Agribusiness (Ian McLean).
