Resources

The ‘On-property benefits of precision livestock management (PLM) technologies and applications’ project involved researchers and commercial beef producers working together to identify how PLM technologies could be applied at the paddock-level to produce significant benefits.

The ‘On-farm demonstration of the installation and use of remote monitoring of stock water’ producer demonstration site project investigated using telemetry in a large scale commercial setting.

The ‘Nutrient requirements tables for Nutrition EDGE manuals’ project derived estimates of metabolisable energy and protein requirements, and the relationship between intake and digestibility, for inclusion in a revised version of the northern beef training package, Nutrition EDGE, to bring them into line with the Australian feeding standards.

The ‘Getting more from the National Livestock Identification Scheme (NLIS)’ project demonstrated the use of NLIS as a business management tool on Producer Demonstration Sites (PDS) and provided a key contact for progressing NLIS in Queensland.

The ‘Identifying and overcoming barriers to implementing practice change: overcoming barriers to adoption’ project used a business coaching process with producers to investigate barriers to practice change and adoption.

The ‘Review and update of the FutureBeef extension training packages’ project revised and targeted FutureBeef training resources to meet current industry needs and enhance adoption of best management practice.

The Digital Homestead project involved collecting real-time property data on livestock, pasture and the environment by remote technologies (such as walk-over-weighing scales, satellite images, GPS collars and weather…
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The ‘Commercialisation plan: 3D imaging for instant cattle measurements’ project was a study to determine market opportunities within key industry segments as well as gauge likely commercialisation pathways for the development of the 3D tool.