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Knowledge Article

• Knowledge Centre
  • A comparison of the growth of cattle grazing buffel grass: high intensity rotational grazing vs continuous grazing
  • Age of turnoff economics – a critical issue for profitability in northern Australia
  • Ageing cattle by their teeth
  • Am I selling or marketing cattle?
  • Annual bull management checklist
  • Application of updated Animal Equivalents (AE) approach
  • Archived Beef Talk features
  • Archived CQ BEEF features
  • Archived eBulletins
  • Archived Northern Muster features
  • Assessing pasture diet quality (NIRS)
  • Beef business performance
  • Beef business tools
  • Diet components
  • Diet formulations
  • Feed consumption and liveweight gain
  • Feed processing
  • Beef industry on-station workforce salary package calculator
  • Beef industry on-station quality workforce handbook
  • Beef supply chain costs
  • Better forecast, better production
  • Black speargrass in Queensland
  • Body condition score for beef cattle
  • Border Rivers region GLM land types
  • Break of season rules for forage budgets
  • Breed selection
  • Breedcow and Dynama
  • Breeder cow mortality – How to calculate it and available management strategies
  • Breeding and genetics
  • Breeding objectives
  • Breeding values: your tool for looking under the hood of your next sire
  • Estimated Breeding Values
  • BREEDPLAN explained
  • Beef rough indicator and calculator of key performance indicators
  • Brigalow Belt pasture photo standards
  • Building waterponds with a road grader
  • Bull breeding soundness examination (BBSE)
  • Bull buying checklist
  • Burdekin region GLM land types
  • Business management and marketing
  • Calf Alive symposium panel Q&A day 1
  • Calf Alive symposium panel Q&A day 2
  • Calf Alive symposium presentations
  • Calf rearing
  • CalfWatch – Developing a system to remotely monitor calving in northern Australia
  • What can we do about calf loss?
  • Cape York Peninsula pasture photo standards
  • Cape York GLM land types
  • Castration
  • Cattle, Grass and Trees – Combinations, Pitfalls and Opportunities
  • Causes and management of beef calf losses in North America
  • Central Queensland Coast pasture photo standards
  • Channel Country pasture photo standards
  • Channel Country region GLM land types
  • Climate Clever Beef
  • Climate Clever Beef publications
  • Coastal Burnett region GLM land types
  • Collecting plant samples for identification
  • Compensatory growth
  • Cost of calf loss in northern Australia
  • Cost of production
  • Costing supplements
  • Cow and weaner management options
  • Crisis feeding of weak and poor stock
  • Crossbreeding systems for beef cattle
  • Darling Downs GLM land types
  • Decision support tools for grazing land management
  • Defining the level of calf loss and identifying causes in your herd
  • Degradation – gradual process or event driven?
  • Dehorning
  • Dehydration in newborn calves in the tropics
  • Desert Uplands pasture photo standards
  • Desert Uplands region GLM land types
  • Diagnosing disease and deficiencies
  • Don’t eat all your grass: ground cover at the break of the season is important!
  • Drought
  • Dry season pasture budget: a guide for stocking rates
  • Einsleigh Uplands and Wet Tropics pasture photo standards
  • Energy supplements
  • Environmental management
  • Export Slaughter Intervals and Chemical Withholding Periods
  • Feedlots
  • Fire management guidelines in the rangelands ─ Western Australia
  • Fitzroy region GLM land types
  • Forage budgeting and pasture utilisation
  • FORAGE decision support system
  • Forest bluegrass
  • Grazing BMP animal production module resources
  • Grazing BMP animal health and welfare module resources
  • Grazing BMP people and business module resources
  • Grazing BMP soil health module resources
  • Giant Rats Tail (GRT) fundamentals and insights for management.
  • Management of giant rat’s tail grass and other weedy Sporobolus grasses
  • Grazing Land Management land type mapping
  • GLM-related multimedia resources
  • Grazing land management decision support tool checklist
  • Grazing land management
  • Gulf Plains pasture photo standards
  • Handling cattle
  • Hay and silage analyses: what do they mean?
  • Health and disease
  • Heifer management
  • High-energy dryland silages for north-west Queensland
  • Hormonal growth promotants: growth and carcase responses
  • Hormonal growth promotants HGPs
  • How to manage leucaena once established
  • How to reliably establish leucaena
  • How to shop for a high-performing bull
  • Husbandry
  • Improving beef business performance with high quality forages
  • Improving beef business performance with phosphorus supplementation
  • Improving carcase traits
  • Improving fertility traits
  • Improving growth through genetics
  • Improving the performance of beef production systems in northern Australia – Part 1
  • Improving the performance of beef production systems in northern Australia – Part 2
  • Improving Productivity and Profitability in Grazing – Managing for profitability (E-Beef online series #2)
  • Improving Productivity and Profitability in Grazing – Technology Driven Decisions (E-Beef online series #1)
  • Improving productivity and profitability in grazing – Technology Showcase – Part 1 (E-Beef online series #3)
  • Improving productivity and profitability in grazing – Technology Showcase – Part 2 (E-Beef online series #4)
  • Improving temperament: effects on productivity and meat quality
  • White grass – Increase of observed frequency in relation to other key 3P species
  • Inland Burnett region GLM land types
  • Integrity Systems Company – ‘Stand By What You Sell’
  • Interested in the EU market?
  • Is pain relief just another pain for graziers and are horns a pain?
  • Kangaroo grass
  • Know your worms
  • Land condition
  • Land types in grazing land management
  • Land types of Queensland acknowledgements
  • Land types of Queensland conditions of use
  • Land types of Queensland definitions
  • Land types of Queensland
  • Insights into pasture dieback (recorded webinar, 2019)
  • Legumes for fodder crops and short-term pastures on clay soils in Queensland
  • Legumes for long-term pastures on high fertility soils in Queensland
  • Link cattle numbers to grass supply
  • Live assessing to meet market specifications
  • Live export
  • Liveweight loss and recovery in cattle
  • Mackay Whitsunday region GLM land types
  • Making profitable management decisions after the dry Part 2: Beef industry
  • Making profitable management decisions after the dry Part 1: Financial management
  • Making profitable management decisions after the dry Part 3: Grains industry
  • Making sense of early weaning
  • Making the most of the forecast
  • The makings of a strong week-old calf
  • Managing an AI program
  • Managing beef cattle feedlots
  • Managing vegetation in the brigalow region – recent (2018) changes to the legislation.
  • Managing cow reproduction: an overview
  • Managing for the dry years and drought
  • Managing infectious and non-infectious causes of calf wastage
  • Managing vegetation in the mulga region – recent (2018) changes to the legislation.
  • Pasture dieback — management options
  • Managing the risks of using fire in grazing country
  • Maranoa Balonne region GLM land types
  • Markets and marketing
  • Mary GLM land types
  • Measuring breeder performance (to improve performance and long-term profitability)
  • Meat Standards Australia (MSA)
  • Minerals and vitamins
  • Mitchell Grass Downs pasture photo standards
  • Mitchell Grass Downs region GLM land types
  • Molasses supplementation
  • Moreton region GLM land types
  • Changes coming to MSA: what cattle producers need to know.
  • Mulga Lands pasture photo standards
  • Mulga region GLM land types
  • Native panics
  • North West Highlands pasture photo standards
  • North-west Queensland pasture response and recovery after flooding – recorded webinar.
  • Northern Breeding Business (NB2): Launching a better future for northern Australian breeding herds.
  • Northern Gulf region GLM land types
  • Nutrient composition of feeds
  • Nutrient requirements of beef cattle
  • Nutrition
  • Nutritional management of breeders
  • Offline mobile map apps
  • Ongoing drought management decisions in western Queensland
  • Options for a connected northern beef industry
  • Our rainfall and pasture growth – comparing current seasons with the past
  • P is for profit and for phosphorus Part 2: Kidman Springs P study and future research
  • Pain relief medication for beef cattle
  • Pasture dieback — species affected
  • Pasture dieback or pasture rundown?
  • Pasture dieback — research into management solutions
  • Pasture dieback — signs and symptoms
  • Pasture Dieback
  • Pasture management for drought recovery
  • Pasture photo standards
  • Pastures and forage crops
  • Perennial grasses are there for the long haul – if you look after them!
  • Phosphorus supplementation for improved productivity and profitability of beef businesses – Part 1
  • Phosphorus supplementation for improved productivity and profitability of beef businesses – Part 2
  • Phosphorus supplementation of cattle in northern Australia
  • Plan for and recover from disasters
  • Planning and managing a supplementary feeding program
  • Post-weaning diarrhoea
  • Pregnancy testing: using results
  • The prevalence of calf loss across northern Australia
  • Price grids show where the money is
  • Principles of using vaccines
  • Supplement labels: What are they saying?
  • Protein and urea supplementation
  • Recovering from drought
  • Redefined anthrax belt – what you need to know
  • Reducing calf loss through better management in Indonesia
  • Representative herd templates for northern Australia
  • Resilience strategies for small landholders Part 1: Grazing land management and pasture recovery
  • Resilience strategies for small landholders Part 2: Managing climate variability and the maintenance feed requirements for horses, sheep and goats
  • Resilience strategies for small landholders Part 3: Drought plans and maintenance feed requirements for cattle
  • Resilience strategies for small landholders Part 4: Duty of Care to animals
  • Resilience strategies for small landholders Part 5: When euthanasia is the best option
  • Restock, replant and repair – what’s next in North Queensland’s flood recovery assistance?
  • Risk and returns of selling trees for carbon credits
  • Rolling ball model – a slippery slope to poor productivity
  • Sown pasture rundown 1: The productivity decline of sown pastures over time
  • Sown pasture rundown 2: Strategies to increase nitrogen inputs
  • Sown pasture rundown 3: Strategies to increase nitrogen cycling
  • Saleable meat yield – examples from north Queensland
  • Saltbush: A grazing option?
  • Seasonal forecast and pasture growth – Mitchell Grass Downs (2018-19)
  • Seasonal mating
  • Selling and transport regulations for cattle in northern Australia
  • Selling options for beef cattle
  • Sensible supplementation – considerations, planning and actions
  • Soil biology – what is it all about?
  • Soil organic matter and carbon sequestration in pastures
  • Southeast GLM land types
  • Southern Brigalow and New England Tablelands pasture photo standards
  • Southern Gulf region GLM land types
  • Sown pasture rundown
  • Sown pastures for the higher rainfall country of the Gympie region
  • Sown pastures in Queensland: their place, their role and the things to watch
  • Spike feeding
  • Stocking rate economics
  • Stocking rates, productivity and profitability
  • Stringhalt in cattle
  • Tail rot
  • The AUS-MEAT language
  • The Lender Ready Program – becoming Lender Ready to assist in accessing money to support business operations and expansion
  • The Long Paddock website: what’s new and it’s all free!
  • The revised fit to load guide: what’s changed?
  • The role of native legumes
  • The role of reference populations in genetic evaluation for Australian beef cattle.
  • Update on financial assistance available to graziers affected by the North-West Queensland floods – recorded webinar.
  • Use of fire in grazed woodlands – Queensland
  • Use of fire in grazing country – Queensland
  • Using fire to manage woody vegetation and restore carrying capacities in Queensland’s northern Gulf region
  • Using NLIS as a management tool
  • Vaccinations for beef cattle
  • Reproductive disease management — vibriosis
  • Water requirements for cattle
  • Weaner supplements
  • Weaning – a critical component of herd management
  • Weeds
  • Welfare
  • Wet season spelling
  • Wet Tropics region GLM land types
  • What are biological soil crusts?
  • White Grass
  • P is for profit and for phosphorus Part 1: Why feed phosphorus to cattle in northern Australia?
  • Why would a pastoralist invest in irrigation?
  • Wide Bay and South East Queensland pasture photo standards
  • Woody cover change at Kidman Springs since 1988
  • Woody cover change in grazing lands of Northern Australia since 1988
  • Worm infestations: Don’t guess
  • Yard weaning and education

Document

• Document Library
  • Could your herd be more productive?
  • ABCD pasture condition guide: Mulga and Mitchell grass
  • Agricultural extension: a practical manual
  • An introduction to the pastures of the Katherine region: Part 2 Common uses for introduced species
  • Artificial breeding of beef cattle: a practical guide
  • Attracting and retaining staff in the northern beef industry (PDF, 1.3MB)
  • Attracting and retaining staff in the southern beef, sheepmeat and pastoral wool industries (PDF, 1MB)
  • Australian animal welfare standards and guidelines
  • Australian standards for the export of livestock
  • Bathurst burr
  • Beef cattle performance in northern Australia: a summary of recent research
  • Beef cattle nutrition: an introduction to the essentials (PDF, 3.42MB)
  • Beef cattle recording and selection (PDF, 2MB)
  • Beef industry on-station quality workforce handbook
  • Best-bet practices for managing the Mitchell grasslands of Queensland: a technical guide of options for optimising animal production, profitability and land condition
  • Best-bet practices for managing grazing land in the Barkly Tableland region of the Northern Territory
  • Best-bet practices for managing grazing lands in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory
  • Best-bet practices for managing the grazing lands of the Maranoa Balonne: a technical guide of options for optimising animal production, profitability and land condition
  • Best-bet practices for managing grazing lands in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory
  • Best management practice for the grazing of cattle in the northern pastoral areas of Western Australia
  • Breeder herd recording leads to more confident decisions
  • Breeding for profit
  • Bull selection: buying better bulls
  • Butterfly pea book: a guide to establishing and managing butterfly pea pastures in Central Queensland
  • Buying bulls: it’s all in the genes
  • Carbon capture project final report: an evaluation of the opportunity and risks of carbon offset based enterprises in the Kimberley-Pilbara region of Western Australia
  • Case study: A history of cattle, water and wildlife on the Nankin Plain
  • Case study: Integrating high value grazing and wetland management on Torilla Plain
  • Case study: Local graziers use economics to assist business planning
  • Case study: Mulga – your stock, your supplement – with Clynt Johnstone
  • Cattle and land management best practices in the Top End region Part 1
  • Cattle and land management best practices in the Top End region Part 2
  • Cattle and land management practices in the Katherine region
  • Cattle yards: design, materials and construction
  • Central West Mitchell Grasslands livestock production systems – Preparing for, responding to and recovering from drought
  • Controlling Bovine Respiratory Disease in feedlot cattle
  • Cooper Creek Catchment Flood Rules of Thumb
  • Cost-effective and multipurpose self-mustering enclosures for stock
  • Creeping lantana handbook: a guide to ecology, control and management
  • Diamantina River Catchment Flood Rules of Thumb
  • Drought recovery: tillers, to be grazed or saved?
  • Dry season management of a beef business
  • Economic modelling of grazing systems in the Fitzroy and Burdekin catchments (PDF, 412KB)
  • The economics of beef in Central Queensland: gross margins and production notes (PDF, 559KB)
  • Economics of beef production in central Queensland: gross margins and production notes
  • Encouraging biodiversity benefits
  • Encouraging birds onto your farm
  • Enhancing economic input to the CQSS2: project report
  • Expanded use of molasses for intensive beef cattle feeding
  • Farm dams in Western Australia
  • A farmer’s guide to increasing soil organic carbon under pastures (PDF, 4.8MB)
  • Feed or sell PTIC cows calculator
  • Female selection in beef cattle
  • Fire management guidelines for Kimberley pastoral lands: best management practice guidelines
  • Fire management guidelines for southern shrubland and Pilbara pastoral rangelands: best management practice guidelines
  • Is it fit to export? A guide to the supply of livestock for the Australian livestock export industry
  • Fitzroy beef production systems – preparing for, responding to, and recovering from drought
  • Flinders River Catchment Flood Rules of Thumb
  • Floodplain grazing management
  • Forage oat variety guide 2017
  • Forage value in the Channel Country: a photographic guide
  • Georgina River Catchment Flood Rules of Thumb
  • Getting ahead in drought through early weaning and planning
  • Grader grass management guide
  • Graziers experiences in managing mulga country
  • A guide to best practice husbandry in beef cattle: branding, castrating and dehorning (PDF, 2.79MB)
  • Guide for safe design of livestock loading ramps and forcing yards
  • Guide to the correct use of pain relief in the grass-fed beef cattle sector
  • Guidelines for the development of extensive cattle stations in northern Australia
  • Gully erosion – Options for prevention and rehabilitation
  • Heat load in feedlot cattle
  • Heifer management in northern beef herds
  • High-energy feed alternatives for the feedlot industry
  • Hormonal growth promotant use in the Australian beef industry
  • Hydatid disease in the Australian beef industry
  • Important pasture species of the Victoria River District
  • Increasing earthworms in pastures
  • An introduction to the pastures of the Katherine region: Part 1 Native and introduced species
  • Is it fit to load? A national guide to the selection of animals fit to transport
  • Keeping your speargrass productive: don’t overgraze
  • Land condition guide: Barkly district
  • Land condition guide: Sturt Plateau district
  • Land condition guide: Victoria River District
  • Land condition photo standards for the Burdekin dry tropics rangelands: a guide for practitioners
  • Large-scale employers: attracting and retaining staff in the pastoral livestock industry (PDF, 452KB)
  • Leucaena: a guide to establishment and management
  • Leucaena for southern inland Queensland
  • LiveCorp publications
  • Management of unfit to load livestock
  • Managing a beef business in the subtropics
  • Managing flood damaged buffel pastures
  • Managing for healthy pastures on the Western Downs
  • Managing for a variable climate: long-term results and management recommendations from the Wambiana grazing trial
  • Medium-sized employers: attracting and retaining staff in the pastoral livestock industry (PDF, 471KB)
  • Motivations, risks and skills of graziers to inform extension for management of high levels of ground cover
  • Mt Coolon Case Study – Development of a Rotational Grazing Records Chart
  • A national guide to describing and managing beef cattle in low body condition
  • Case study: NIRS and phosphorus testing
  • Northern Gulf beef production systems – Preparing for, responding to, and recovering from drought
  • Not just watching the grass grow: graziers who monitor their land
  • Optimal cattle growth pathways in central Queensland
  • Pasture dieback in Queensland, 2017 situation report
  • Pasture dieback in Queensland – fact sheet (2017)
  • Pasture establishment
  • Pasture management for the inland Burnett
  • Pasture species sowing guide for the Top End
  • Pastures: Mackay Whitsunday region – a guide for developing productive and sustainable pasture-fed grazing systems
  • Pastures for protection & production on marginal cropping lands
  • Phosphorus management of beef cattle in northern Australia
  • Queensland AgTrends
  • Rain waiter or decision maker? Managing Mitchell grass during drought
  • Realising the win-wins of using pain relief
  • Reducing weed risks from fodder
  • Reef catchments beef industry survey report 2011–2014
  • Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part I: Rehabilitation methodologies to improve water quality flowing from grazing lands onto the Great Barrier Reef
  • Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part II: Literature review of rehabilitation methods to improve water quality flowing from grazing lands onto the Great Barrier Reef
  • Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part III: Economic analysis of rehabilitation techniques in the Burdekin River catchment to improve water quality flowing from grazing lands onto the Great Barrier Reef
  • Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part IV: The Kimberley rehabilitation program and lessons for the Great Barrier Reef catchments
  • Small-scale employers: attracting and retaining staff in the pastoral livestock industry (PDF, 425KB)
  • Soil carbon sequestration: myths and mysteries
  • Soil conservation guidelines for Queensland
  • Test
  • The 2010 Pastoral Industry Survey – Northern Territory Wide
  • The Wambiana grazing trial: key learnings for sustainable and profitable management in a viable environment
  • Treating calf scours
  • Trends in natural resource management in Australia’s Monsoonal North: the beef industry
  • Trends in natural resource management in Australia’s Monsoonal North: the conservation economy
  • Understanding pimelea poisoning of cattle
  • Using fire to manage thickened woody vegetation in the Gulf region of north Queensland
  • Using high quality forages to meet beef markets in the Fitzroy River catchment
  • Vegetation of Queensland: descriptions of broad vegetation groups
  • Water quality for livestock
  • Weaner management in northern beef herds
  • Weedy Sporobolus grasses: best practice manual
  • Werrington Station – “Hope is not a plan”
  • Yard weaning methods for preparing feeder cattle

Project

• Projects
  • Efficient Livestock and Low Emissions (ELLE) from southern grazing systems
  • Reef & Beef Extension
  • 3D imaging for instant cattle measurements: commercialisation plan
  • Assessing options for drought recovery — 8. Options for recovery
  • A genetic approach to internal parasite control in Australian cattle
  • Accelerating the use of grazing land management tools (FORAGE)
  • Accelerating uptake of leucaena-based pastures
  • Achievable cow productivity
  • Additional measurements on muscle line cattle
  • Addressing land condition issues at Ametdale: part of the Northern Grazing Demonstration project
  • Advancing Beef Leaders
  • Archaeaphage therapy to control rumen methanogens
  • Area-wide control of buffalo fly and prevention of southward spread using Wolbachia
  • Assessing cattle motivation for access to pasture or feedlot environments
  • Assessing the economic and logistical benefits of using the Tickoff system to control external parasites
  • Assessing options for drought response — 1. Introduction and overview
  • Assessing options for drought response — 2. Situation analysis
  • Assessing options for drought response — 3. Mortality risk and early weaning
  • Assessing options for drought response — 4. Sell, feed or agist PTIC cows
  • Assessing options for drought response — 5. Send sale steers to agistment or sell early
  • Assessing options for drought response — 6. Assessing forced sales from within cow, heifer and steer groups
  • Assessing options for drought response — 7. Impact of the response strategy on recovery
  • Assessing options for drought recovery — 9. Incorporating climate variability
  • Assessing productivity gains for cattle grazing “Redlands” (R12) leucaena in northern Queensland
  • Assessment of new biocontrol agents of Parkinsonia
  • Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines: Livestock at Saleyards and Depots – Consultation Regulation Impact Statement
  • $avannaPlan-Beef$ense
  • $avannaPlan
  • Barbervax, a vaccine for Haemonchus contortus infection of sheep: attempts to extend the registration claim to include goats
  • Baseline survey of salmonella in Australian beef to export markets
  • Beef business mentoring program
  • Beef CRC projects
  • Beef finishing systems
  • Besnoitiosis in Australian wildlife and significance to cattle
  • Best choice shrub and inter-row species for reducing methane emissions
  • Better Beef and Reef
  • Biocontrol of prickly acacia: host specificity testing of agents from India
  • Boosting natural regeneration of the nitrogen capital in grazing lands (Biocrusts project)
  • Biodiversity condition assessment for grazing lands
  • Biological control of bellyache bush: Native range surveys in South America
  • Breedcow and Dynama software redevelopment
  • Breedcow and Dynama software redevelopment
  • Breeding a psyllid-resistant Leucaena hybrid for northern Australia – Phase 2
  • Buparvaquone tissue residue study
  • Burdekin Rangelands Reef Extension
  • Calf 48 hour – better detection of calving events for improved productivity
  • Calf Watch – Developing a system to remotely monitor calving and study calf loss in extensive situations in Northern Australia
  • Carp, kelp and Christmas Island; where to next with fertilisers?
  • Cassava Project
  • Cattle heat load toolbox upgrade
  • Cattle vaccination studies using novel anti-cattle tick antigens developed during Beef CRC research
  • Causal factors affecting liveweight gain in north Australian beef herds
  • Central Australian Self Herding (CASH)
  • Climate Clever Beef
  • Climatic range and condition of pasture grasses and legumes world-wide, International Grasslands Congress 2013 survey
  • Climatic range and condition of pasture grasses and legumes world-wide, International Grasslands Congress 2013 survey
  • Comparative analyses of rumen microbiomes to mitigate ruminant methane and improve feed utilisation
  • Conserving Leucaena ssp. germplasm collection
  • DAF Paddock Modelling Program
  • Daily heat load monitoring tool
  • Demonstrating the impacts of land preparation techniques on leucaena establishment and productivity
  • Demonstrating recovery of pasture productivity: Mulga Lands – Bollon
  • Demonstrating the effect of liveweight on heifer pregnancy rates in northern Queensland
  • Detection of cows carrying a persistently BVDV (pestivirus) infected foetus
  • Determining property-level rates of breeder cow mortality in northern Australia including literature review
  • Climate savvy grazing (Developing improved grazing and related practices to assist beef production enterprises across northern Australia to adapt to a changing and more variable climate)
  • Developing a life cycle inventory for Australian agriculture
  • Developing principles and priorities for the genetic improvement traits and species in pastures
  • Development of algae based functional foods for reducing enteric methane emissions from cattle
  • Development of candidate management interventions to reduce foetal and calf loss
  • Development of gas selective membranes for intra-ruminal capsules.
  • Development of the National Livestock Methane Database
  • Digital homestead
  • Distribution, invasiveness, biology and control of rubber bush (Calotropis procera) in northern Australia
  • Does supplementing cows with phosphorus during pregnancy change weaner performance?
  • Early predictors of lifetime female reproductive performance
  • eExtension
  • The effect of oestradiol and trenbolone acetate combination implants on beef eating quality
  • Effects of phosphorus supplementation on Brahman females at Kidman Springs
  • Enhanced diagnostics, molecular epidemiology and disease ecology for anthrax
  • Enhancing BeefSpecs systems for improving market compliance of pasturefed beef in southern Australia
  • Enhancing extension skills to drive adoption in the northern beef industry
  • Environmental performance review of Australian feedlots
  • Epigenetics in the red meat industry
  • Evaluation and optimization of greenfeed emission monitoring units for livestock
  • Factors associated with divergent post-weaning liveweight gain in northern Australian beef cattle
  • On-farm algal ponds to provide protein for northern cattle
  • Feedlot bedding study
  • Feedlot education, training and technical services
  • Fertilising for yield and quality in sown grass pastures and forage crops
  • Field evidence – Risk of agricultural plants becoming environmental weeds
  • From method to market – unlocking ecosystem service opportunities for livestock producers
  • Fungal biopesticide for cattle tick and buffalo fly control
  • Fungal biopesticide for cattle tick control
  • FutureBeef
  • Gene discovery for post partum reconception and age at puberty in tropically adapted beef cattle
  • Genetic technologies to reduce methane emissions from Australian beef cattle
  • Genome-wide association study of tropical composite bulls for reproduction traits
  • A genomic strategy to identify archaeal viruses in the rumen
  • Genotyping and phenotyping for accelerated genetic improvement in northern Australia
  • Getting more from the National Livestock Identification Scheme
  • GonaCon trial in bull calves
  • GonaCon trial in heifers
  • Grazing BMP
  • GrazingFutures
  • Growth and meat quality of grain finished entire male Bos indicus cattle
  • High-output forage systems for meeting beef markets: Phase 1
  • High-output forage systems for meeting beef markets: Phase 2
  • HRM and cell grazing: a review of the evidence base
  • Ideal markers for tropically adapted cattle – proof of concept: functional mutations for bull fertility
  • Identifying and overcoming barriers to implementing practice change: overcoming barriers to adoption
  • Impact of increased climate variability on Australian feedlots
  • Impact of infectious diseases on beef cattle reproduction
  • Impacts of Leucaena plantations on greenhouse gas emissions in northern Australian cattle production systems
  • Implementation of Producer Demonstration Sites to increase research adoption and practice change in the Northern Territory
  • Improved modelling of livestock production from lucerne
  • Improved protection of cattle against anaplasmosis in tick-infested areas of Australia
  • Improving fertility to artificial insemination in Bos indicus cattle
  • Improving grazing management practices to enhance ground cover and reduce sediment loads
  • Improving productivity of rundown sown grass pastures
  • Improving profitability and resilience of grazing businesses in Queensland – Preparing for, responding to, and recovering from drought
  • Increased efficiency of microbial protein production in the rumen through manipulation of nutrients and rumen microbial populations (Addendum)
  • Increased efficiency of microbial protein production in the rumen through manipulation of nutrients and rumen microbial populations
  • Increasing productivity and reducing methane emissions by supplementing feed with dietary lipids
  • Indian couch invasion: scope, production impacts, and management options
  • Investigating and improving market compliance issues in beef markets in central Queensland
  • Investigating the practicality of regenerating degraded pastoral land on Larrawa station
  • Investigating the risk of oxalate poisoning for cows grazing irrigated buffel grass
  • Kidman Springs fire experiment (Shruburn)
  • Leading Sheep 2011-2015
  • Leading Sheep
  • Legume BMP in the Brigalow Belt
  • Leucaena – the case for developing a sterile variety
  • Leucaena DNA profiling
  • Leucaena rumen inoculum – composition and activity
  • Leucaena in southern inland Queensland
  • Lifting leucaena adoption in North Queensland
  • Literature review of pain and welfare impacts associated with on-farm cattle husbandry procedures
  • National livestock export industry – sheep, cattle and goat transport performance report 2013
  • Livestock disease survey: Phases 1 and 2
  • Making more from sheep
  • Male indicator traits to improve female reproductive performance
  • Management strategies and policies to assist north Australian beef enterprises adapt to climate change
  • Managing the detrimental effects of indospicine through rumen metabolism
  • A marginal abatement cost analysis of practice options related to the NLMP program
  • Measuring methane in the rumen under different production systems as a predictor of methane emissions
  • Metagenomic approaches for understanding the functional metabolic potential of methanogen communities in ruminant livestock
  • Methanotrophs from natural ecosystems as biocontrol agents for ruminant methane emissions
  • Minimising the risk of nitrite toxicity in ruminants when dietary nitrate is used to mitigate methane emissions
  • Improved empirical models of cattle growth, reproduction and mortality
  • MSA sensory testing of Fletcherview cattle
  • Myco-insecticide for nuisance fly control in cattle feedlots
  • National beef genetics extension strategy
  • National livestock export industry – sheep, cattle and goat transport performance report 2016
  • National livestock export industry – sheep, cattle and goat transport performance report 2017
  • National livestock export industry – sheep, cattle and goat transport performance report 2014
  • National livestock export industry – sheep, cattle and goat transport performance report 2015
  • National wild dog action plan
  • New biocontrol opportunities for prickly acacia: exploration in India
  • New detection and classification algorithms for mapping woody weeds from UAV data
  • Next gen beef breeding strategies for the northern Australian beef industry
  • Nitrogen contribution to grazing ecosystems by cyanobacteria
  • Northern Australian beef fertility project (CashCow)
  • Northern Beef Futures
  • Northern Grazing Systems
  • Nutrient requirements tables for Nutrition EDGE manuals
  • Nutrition EDGE material finalisation
  • Observations of tail rot in a Northern Territory breeder herd
  • Old Man Plains Research Station, Alice Springs
  • On-farm demonstration of the installation and use of remote monitoring of stock water
  • On-property benefits of precision livestock management (PLM) technologies and applications
  • Optimising growth paths of beef cattle in northern Australia for increased profit
  • Options for addressing protein under-nutrition in Northern Australian cattle
  • Paddock Power: unlocking the secrets to sustainable and profitable intensification
  • Pain management in castrated beef cattle
  • Pain relief during castration and dehorning project
  • ParaBoss for cattle parasites
  • Phone app for pasture management – overview of development
  • Phone app for pasture management – preliminary investigation into the development of an electronic forage budget and land condition application, for use on existing hand-held devices, for the northern grazing industry
  • Pigeon Hole Project
  • Plasma anti-mullerian hormone: determining the value as a phenotypic and genetic marker for reproductive rate
  • Polled gene marker refinement: refinement of the CSAFG29 microsatellite marker test for polled
  • Polled gene marker test and fixed time insemination
  • Potential for rangeland grassfed assurance programs in Western Australia
  • Practical and sustainable considerations for the mitigation of methane emissions in the northern Australian beef herd using nitrate supplements
  • Precision pastoral management tools (PPMT)
  • Preliminary investigation of prickly acacia dieback
  • Priority list of endemic diseases for the red meat industries report
  • Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) to test and demonstrate establishment techniques and quantify productivity on commercial scale Leucaena in QLD
  • Producer phosphorus manual for the northern cattle industry
  • Promising pastures
  • QGRAZE
  • Quality Graze – so much more than a rotational grazing project!
  • Re-alimentation of phosphorus deficient cattle
  • Recovery of the water cycle on grazing lands – cumulative impacts of changing pasture condition on retention of water, sediment and nutrients on Burdekin hillslopes
  • Reducing calf loss from exposure
  • Reef grazing industry development projects
  • Reef Rescue – Getting ground cover right – thresholds and baselines for a healthier reef
  • Reef Rescue – Quantifying the impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands
  • ReefSafe Grazing
  • REEFsponsible and viable beef production
  • Refining stocking densities
  • Rehabilitation of degraded land to increase soil carbon storage in north west Queensland
  • Repronomics II – Building and delivering effective genomic selection for northern Australian cattle
  • Review and update of the FutureBeef extension training packages
  • Review of Animal Welfare QA Systems for Livestock Industries in the UK and Europe
  • Review of diagnostic technologies for monitoring feedlot animal health
  • Review of LPI R&D portfolio
  • Review of BREEDPLAN commercialisation licence
  • Review of productivity decline in sown grass pastures
  • Review of the welfare risks and the science that underpins welfare standards of cattle and sheep at slaughter
  • Rhizobia survival and new methods to improve nodulation in tropical legumes
  • Screw-worm fly: chemical containment and eradication of screw-worm incursions in Australia
  • Seed production projects
  • Selected Brahman project
  • Selection of novel tick antigens using vaccination-challenge studies in cattle
  • Grazing with Self Herding to improve performance of pastoral cattle
  • Simultaneous genetic improvement of maternal productivity, feed efficiency and end-product traits in variable environments
  • Spelling strategies for recovery of pasture condition
  • Stocktake and analysis of legume evaluation for tropical pastures in Australia
  • Stocktake4Reef e-learning package
  • Strategic science of nitrate as a mitigation technology for grazing ruminants
  • Strategies to increase the adoption of AI in northern Australian tropical beef genotype herds
  • Supplementation with tea saponins and statins to reduce methane emissions from ruminants
  • Sustainable development of Victoria River District (VRD) grazing lands
  • Sweet Spot: improving breeder herd performance through optimal pasture utilisation
  • Systematic literature review: Association between soil and clinical expression of Johne’s disease
  • Understanding farm management economics
  • Understanding methane reducing tannins in enteric fermentation using grape marc as a model tannin source
  • Understanding producers’ change to more sustainable grazing practices in the tropical savanna rangelands of North Queensland
  • Understanding of the relationship between Bos indicus content and consumer eating quality using genetic markers
  • Updating a model of meat demand in Australia to test for the impact of MSA
  • Updating and recalibrating an equilibrium displacement model of the Australian beef market
  • Use of fertiliser phosphorus for increased productivity of legume-based sown pastures in the Brigalow Belt region – a review
  • Using muscling selection line cows to inform maternal productivity modelling
  • Validating remotely sensed land condition products for Paddock to Reef reporting
  • Validation and demonstration of a diagnostic tool for phosphorus status of beef cattle
  • Value of defensive R&D investments
  • In vitro culture of buffalo fly and infections with Wolbachia
  • Wagyu genetics collaboration research project
  • Walk over weighing in western Queensland
  • Using walk over weighing and remote camera monitoring to identify key management triggers and reduce costs
  • Wambiana grazing trial
  • Weaning management of beef calves – practical guidelines for northern Australian beef producers
  • Weather station review update
  • Weather station review
  • Weight change between yarding and delivery to exporter
  • Welfare outcomes of calves of two ages castrated by elastrator rings
  • Wild dog ecology, impacts and management in northern Australian cattle enterprises: a review with recommendations for RD&E investments

Tools Services

• Tools And Services
  • Agbiz farm budgeting tools
  • Agistment calculator
  • Animal Health Australia
  • Animal Health Declarations
  • Beef Breeding Services
  • Beef CRC legacy website
  • Beef industry on-station workforce quality salary package calculator
  • Beyondblue
  • Biosecurity Planning
  • Bluetongue zone map
  • Brands register Northern Territory
  • Brands register Queensland
  • Brands register Western Australia
  • BreedObject
  • BREEDPLAN
  • BULLCHECK®
  • Cattle Council of Australia
  • ChemClear
  • Cost of production calculator
  • DrumMUSTER
  • EMERGENCY ANIMAL DISEASE WATCH HOTLINE 1800 675 888
  • EXOTIC PLANT PEST HOTLINE 1800 084 881
  • Farm Biosecurity
  • Farm survey data for the beef, slaughter lambs and sheep industries
  • Farmer Disaster Support
  • Feed cost calculator
  • FloraBase: the Western Australian flora
  • FORAGE
  • Ifarmwell
  • Land types of Queensland
  • Leucaena inoculum for cattle
  • Livestock Library
  • Livestock movement statistics
  • Long Paddock
  • Managing Indigenous Pastoral Lands manual
  • Meat & Livestock Australia’s tools and calculators
  • Meat Standards Australia (MSA)
  • MetEye – your eye on the environment™
  • Newsletters and magazines
  • North Australia and rangelands fire information
  • NR Maps
  • Pasture photo standards
  • PestSmart Connect
  • Phosphorus lick intake calculator
  • PREgCHECK®
  • Producer demonstration sites
  • Farm Debt Restructure Office, Queensland
  • Queensland Rural and Industry Development Authority
  • Rejected pasture legumes: a weed management toolbox
  • Rising Champions Initiative
  • Southern Beef Technology Services
  • Stock and Rural Crime Investigation Squad
  • Stocktake: balancing supply and demand
  • Stocktake GLM
  • Tick fever diagnosis advice and laboratory services
  • Tick fever vaccine
  • Tropical Beef Technology Services
  • Tropical forages: an interactive selection tool
  • TSE Freedom Assurance Project
  • VegMachine®
  • Weed identification tool
  • Workshops