Resources

A guide to ageing cattle by their teeth, including a table of average age and the range of ages that teeth erupt for different breeds, photos and diagrams.

Meat Standards Australia (MSA) is a grading system developed to improve the supply of consistently high quality meat to the beef consumer. MSA is a ‘tenderness guaranteed’ grading…
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Liveweight is often used as the basis for trading cattle and is the major determinant of carcase weight. However, due to time off water and feed through handling…
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An Export Slaughter Interval (ESI) is the minimum time that should elapse between administration of a veterinary medicine to animals and their slaughter for export. ESIs manage differences…
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A brief summary of key selling and transport regulations for livestock into and out of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

If you had a VVS-1, ‘Ideal’, D, 2.5 you would know without seeing it that you had a spectacular diamond with excellent clarity, cut, colour and carat weight.…
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Marketing cattle for maximum returns is important for a profitable beef business. Find market and marketing resources, tools, useful links and videos here.

Correct management of weaners, including low stress training and education of calves at weaning, sets their pattern of behaviour for the rest of their lives. Making their first…
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Key messages Weaning is important to manage breeder body condition and reproduction. Astute managers start weaning before cows start to lose body condition. The smaller the animal, the…
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Weaner supplementation is one of the most critical aspects of successful weaner management. The type of supplement fed should be selected—based on weaner age and weight. This will…
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