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Weaner to yearling production pays off logo
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Weaner to yearling production pays off

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate that high quality forage crop and perennial pasture systems can be utilised to meet target weights for finishing steers on the Monaro. This will help increase overall farm profit relative to the traditional base-selling enterprise system.

30 Jun 2018 - 30 Jul 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Monaro Farming Systems CMC Inc

Increasing production using containment logo
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Increasing production using containment

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate the use of containment areas to maintain annual stocking rates and increase the sheep production system. This will be achieved via increased reproduction rates, maintaining condition scores through mid and late pregnancy and maintaining ground cover until the ‘break of the season’

1 May 2019 - 30 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Barossa Improved Grazing Group Inc

Is fertilising sown pastures economical logo
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Is fertilising sown pastures economical

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate the economic value of strategic fertilising regimes on existing rundown sub-tropical pastures on the Darling Downs. This will help improve the overall productivity of the region.

25 Mar 2019 - 30 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Carnamah Investment Trust

North Coast Grazing Maize Group logo
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North Coast Grazing Maize Group

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate that directly grazing a standing corn crop is an economically viable, and agronomically sound, option for providing winter feed in the summer dominant rainfall areas of eastern Australia.

1 Mar 2019 - 30 May 2024

New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales Local Land Services (NSW LLS)

Increasing profit with dual purpose crop logo
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Increasing profit with dual purpose crop

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate the benefits of dual purpose crops in a mixed farming enterprise. Improving the synergy between cropping and livestock production can increase profitability through best management practices.

28 Feb 2019 - 27 Sep 2024

New South Wales, Australia

Southern DIRT Incorporated

The Sense in Supplementation logo
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The Sense in Supplementation

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will show producers that supplementation of lambs on finishing crop and pasture systems can significantly increase liveweight gains and overall net profits.

28 Feb 2019 - 30 Jul 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Monaro Farming Systems CMC Inc

PDS: Winter Forage Tropical Grass System logo
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PDS: Winter Forage Tropical Grass System

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate a winter forage programme to beef producers, to further develop their existing winter forage programme and enhance tropical pasture management.

13 Sep 2019 - 15 May 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Norco Rural Stores

Post-weaning management strategies logo
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Post-weaning management strategies

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site aims to quantify the cost benefit of different postweaning management systems for cattle in the Limestone Coast of South Australia and the Western District of Victoria, to maintain adequate growth rates and reach production targets in steers and heifers.

1 Aug 2019 - 30 Jun 2024

New South Wales, Australia

MacKillop Farm Management Group

PDS: Sustainable Long Term Leucaena pastures logo
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PDS: Sustainable Long Term Leucaena pastures

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The aim of this project is to demonstrate the most suitable leucaena-grass pasture system for northern Australia. This will include optimal row spacing for both dryland and irrigated leucaena planting, cultivar choice and long term management strategies that will support sustainable, high value beef production.

1 Aug 2019 - 1 Mar 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Leucaena Network Association Inc

The Derwent Catchment Project – Forage Shrubs logo
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The Derwent Catchment Project – Forage Shrubs

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Previous projects have identified that forage shrubs are an ideal management option to improve grazing productivity of North-facing slopes in the Derwent Catchment. This Producer Demonstration Site will apply learnings from the mainland states and design, implement and evaluate the productivity benefits of forage shrubs in Tasmanian grazing systems and...

30 Jul 2019 - 15 Dec 2023

New South Wales, Australia

The Derwent Catchment Project Inc