Optimal cattle growth pathways in central Queensland
What is the best way to use high quality forages? In central Queensland is it better to:
- feed leucaena to steers to sell them as bullocks or
- put weaners on oats and then leucaena to sell them as feed-on steers or
- put yearling steers on to leucaena or
- just leave them on buffel grass until they sell?
Don’t know? The answers are in this report ‘Productivity and profitability of a range of alternative steer growth paths resulting from manipulating the pasture feed base in central Queensland – a modelling approach’ by Maree Bowen and Fred Chudleigh, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland (PDF, 2 MB).
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In this webinar recording, project leader Maree Bowen provides an overview of the results and discusses the key findings from the report. 31:26 minutes published 26 July 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PWb57wW11Y