March towards feed quality
To supply your livestock needs and ensure the best value for money, you need to know the nutritive value of the feedstuffs. It is difficult to judge the quality of a feed visually, so...
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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...
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.
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...
Pregnancy Scanning in sheep– Why should I scan for multiples?
Want more lambs? Pregnancy scanning for multiples is a very useful tool for producers to make better management decisions. Valuable information can be collected, leading to a more tailored management and production system based...
Feed budgeting takes out the guesswork
Feed budgeting is an important tool to help determine potential pasture deficits or surpluses and assist in matching feed supply and demand.
Feed budgeting allows for better and more timely decisions, such as determining the number of stock you can carry, and for how long, and the likely animal performance for different classes of stock
