Resources
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The ‘Next gen beef breeding strategies for the northern Australian beef industry’ project investigated genetic and genomic strategies to increase beef reproductive efficiency in northern Australia.
The ‘Lifting leucaena adoption in North Queensland’ project uses a producer demonstration site (PDS) to investigate establishing and managing leucaena and its impact on livestock production.
The Kidman Springs fire experiment (also known as the ‘Shruburn experiment’) tests if and how fire can be used to manage increasing woody cover in grazed savannas in northern Australia.
The ‘Assessing productivity gains for cattle grazing “Redlands” (R12) leucaena in northern Queensland’ project will investigate the performance of weaners grazing the new psyllid resistant leucaena variety ‘Redlands’ relative to an existing commercial leucaena variety (Wondergraze).
The ‘Accelerating the use of grazing land management tools’ project aims to increase the uptake of decision support tools like FORAGE to assist property managers with their grazing land management decisions.
The ‘Myco-insecticide for nuisance fly control in cattle feedlots’ project will improve and evaluate Metarhizium based myco-insecticide with a view to developing a commercial product for use in cattle feedlots.
The Wambiana grazing trial started in 1997 and continues today to test and develop sustainable and profitable strategies to manage for rainfall variability in extensive grazing lands.
The ‘Improving productivity of rundown sown grass pastures’ project aims to address the problem of declining sown grass pasture production in northern Australia.
The ‘Precision pastoral management tools (PPMT)’ project aims to develop a commercial Precision Pastoral Management System (PPMS) that will integrate remotely collected, precision data on cattle and pasture management, using minimal labour inputs.
The ‘Beef business mentoring program’ aims to increase beef producer business knowledge and improve the profitability of northern Australian beef enterprises through a structured mentoring process.