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Register now: Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and Macquarie Franklin's Red Meat Updates event is for anyone involved in the red meat industry – producers, processors, advisers, livestock agents, industry organisations, product suppliers and researchers.
This year, the theme of the conference is preparing for, managing through and recovering from adverse conditions. The program includes local and interstate speakers from MLA, Holmes Sackett, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, PGG Wrightson Seeds, and CSIRO, plus producers including Alison Napier (Harefield, St Marys), James Walch (Stewarton, Epping Forest), Chris Headlam (Lowes Park, Woodbury), Rob Tole (Greenvale Pastoral, Cressy), Julian von Bibra (Beaufront, Ross), and Jock Hughes (Cluden Newry Angus, Longford).
The conference is on Friday 22 July at The Tramsheds, Launceston.
Click here for the flyer and RSVP details.
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TIA Roadshows 2016
RD&E Showcase: The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) is again heading to regional Tasmania to showcase their current and future research, development and extension (RD&E) work that is helping to grow the State's agricultural industries.
Events are being held at Burnie (Wednesday 20 July), Ross (Thursday 21 July), and Scottsdale (Thursday 11 August).
Further information and RSVP details:
Burnie – Ross – Scottsdale
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Farmer views on climate
Research survey: Research being undertaken by James Cook University is aiming to gain an informed picture of farmer views about changing climate, and challenges this may pose to farming practices.
The survey is anonymous and no individual will be personally identified in the dataset.
Click here for more information.
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Wind shelter for lambing
Reduce exposure: A trial is underway in south-west Victoria to improve newborn lamb survival during high wind chill conditions.
The study is using wind shelters to reduce the wind chill factor, and although the method sounds simple, ensuring ewes give birth near the shelters is proving more complex.
A potential solution includes planting hedgerows of tall wheatgrass in parallel lines across the paddock, 10 to 15 metres apart, meaning no matter where the ewe gives birth, it's likely to be in a spot where the wind chill factor is reduced.
The trial is a joint project by Meridian, Meat and Livestock Australia, and the State Government's Best Lamb Best Wool program.
Click here for more information.
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Flystrike research update
Progress continues: Australia's wool industry research, development and marketing body, Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), has delivered the latest update on its number one research and development (R&D) investment priority: protecting the nation's sheep flock from flystrike.
From a wide spectrum of research projects and trials conducted on farms and in laboratories, significant and incremental progress is being reported.
All presentations from the update will be available from July 22 at www.wool.com/flystrikeRnDupdate
Click here for the full media release.
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Worms in prime lambs
How resilient?: Just how resilient are prime lambs to worm infection? The Lifting the Limits project, supported by Meat & Livestock Australia, investigated the constraints imposed by worm infection for sheep meat systems, and worked with regional advisory groups to develop and promote worm control programs that will become available through WormBoss.
Around 10,000 meat-breed ewes and their (largely) twin lambs were monitored for worm and production traits over three years on commercial sheep properties throughout NSW and Victoria.
The work showed that prime lambs that have high growth rates before weaning are very resilient to worms and are not likely to benefit from a drench before weaning.
Click here for the full story.
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Hydatids and freezing offal
Restrictions: Tasmania has in place restrictions on feeding offal to dogs as part of the State’s ongoing management of hydatids.
In line with current World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) requirements, the Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) has issued an order allowing hard freezing as a suitable treatment of offal that is to be fed to dogs, or sold as dog food.
Raw offal, or pet food containing offal, must not be fed to dogs unless:
- it is commercially sterile, meaning it has been treated in a way that it can be stored for extended periods without refrigeration (e.g. canned or various hard dried products)
- it has been cooked to a core temperature of 100 degrees Celsius for one minute or an equivalent treatment
- it has been frozen solid to a core temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius for 48 hours.
Click here for more information about hydatids on the DPIPWE website.
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