The Selected Brahman project (Northern Territory) aims to improve fertility rates in Bos indicus cattle by focusing on genetic improvement.

Vaccinations are an important part of disease prevention in an animal health program. Read more about key vaccines used in Queensland.

Identifying breeding objectives is fundamental to planned cattle breeding. So who sets breeding objectives? If we are honest with ourselves we will answer ‘I do’. Breeding objectives are…
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Can pain relief husbandry practices improve animal health and well-being? In alignment with the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework’s objective of achieving 100% utilisation of pain relief for husbandry…
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Internal parasites can profoundly impact the health and liveweight gain of livestock. There are three broad groups of worms: roundworms, flukes and tapeworms. Knowing what type of worm your animals have will help you to design an effective worm control program.

Good, low stress cattle handling improves productivity, such as liveweight gains, conception rates, weaning, meat quality, etc. and decreases your stress!

Find out about beef cattle health: vaccines and vaccination programs, diagnosing disease and deficiencies, diseases of cattle, zoonoses, identifying and treating parasites, feed-related poisoning, nutritional deficiencies, etc.

This is the sixth of seven recorded presentations, demonstrating how to assess management options in response to drought. In this presentation, Fred Chudleigh (Agricultural Economist, Department of Agriculture…
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Increasing the efficiency of north Australian cattle production systems using local crops to improve dry season weight gain Supported by the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia…
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This is the fifth of seven recorded presentations, demonstrating how to assess management options in response to drought. In this presentation, Fred Chudleigh (Agricultural Economist, Department of Agriculture…
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