Strategic summer drenching of sheep
Summer drenching is the key to minimising worm carryover into next year, by making sure that there are few worms in your sheep getting a free ride into autumn. A wetter spring means pasture...
News Items
Summer weeds – do they have grazing potential and which ones are toxic
Weeds! They are always there, no matter how hard you try. Yet they can be a good source of green feed during the Summer providing additional protein and have been found to maintain liveweight...
NEW SheepNotes out now!
The spring edition has articles on specialist lamb finishing; dung beetles; supplements to reduce methane emissions and more.
Get excited about spreadsheets!
Do you need to feed stock? A cash flow budget can help you to manage the increasing costs! A user-friendly excel spreadsheet could provide an ideal tool for looking at contributing factors such as...
Myth buster: Is summer rainfall likely?
Dale Grey, Seasonal Risk Agronomist with Agriculture Victoria, tackles the myth buster “La Nina has no effect on summer rainfall in Victoria”. Dale also looks at historical climate data to consider what might lie...
Pushing for fodder
Fodder conservation should only occur when there is surplus feed on the farm. However, where fodder reserves have diminished after a long dry summer/ autumn or wet winter pasture growth has been slow people...
LiveFeed Seasonal webinar – Summer forage crop opportunities for lambs
With another wet spring forecast, this webinar will discuss summer forage crops as potential opportunities for providing quality feed for lambs over summer. Presenters include Rebecca Stutz (CSIRO) and Ralph Behrendt (Agriculture Victoria) plus...
Managing pugging and damage to wet areas
With the recent high rainfall received across some parts of Victoria, managing livestock in wet areas is front of mind for many producers. Where grazing areas are prone to pugging and waterlogging, having strategies...
Imprint Feeding – train lambs while on mum
Whether or not you intend to feed grain to lambs after weaning or at some stage later in life, training them whilst they are on their mums can save a lot of time later...
Growing weaner cattle during winter
How can we make sure that our spring born weaners perform at their best through the winter, and is it worth adding supplements to chase higher growth rates?
