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Forage systems for optimal weaning management logo
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Forage systems for optimal weaning management

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate the benefits of using a forage crop pasture mix during weaning for prime lamb production or merino ewe productivity, relative to current forage options within the Western Australia Mediterranean Zone.

25 Jun 2018 - 25 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Corrigan Farm Improvement Group

Increasing carrying capacity and poor soil logo
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Increasing carrying capacity and poor soil

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate that sowing cereals and canola into legume pastures can improve sheep profitability and productivity in the Lake Grace area, by increasing carrying capacity and stocking rates through improved pasture composition, grazing, quality and quantity.

30 Jun 2018 - 31 Jan 2022

New South Wales, Australia

AgPro Management

PDS: Using eID to improve ewe performance logo
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PDS: Using eID to improve ewe performance

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate how electronic identification technology can be used to augment monitoring of ewes, which can improve their welfare and reproductive performance. Monitoring ewes allows producers to ensure they are receiving adequate nutrition, and identify and appropriately manage ewes that are found to be in suboptimal...

30 Jun 2018 - 28 Feb 2021

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne

Managing trace element deficiencies in soil logo
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Managing trace element deficiencies in soil

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate appropriate practices for diagnosing trace element deficiencies (i.e. blood tests, liver samples/biopsies for copper) and use leaf analysis to highlight seasonal variation in clover and grass mineral status. The benefits of using electronic identification technology to collect and collate data will also be demonstrated.

1 Nov 2018 - 30 Apr 2024

New South Wales, Australia

Lisa Warn Ag Consulting Pty Ltd

PDS: Better Bega Beef logo
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PDS: Better Bega Beef

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will carry out three “Paired Paddock Programs” (each with two sites) to demonstrate the impact of growing more pasture (through the removal of nutritional limitations and other identified limitations) and efficiently utilising the feed produced by running more cattle or achieving higher growth rates in young...

30 Sep 2018 - 30 Dec 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Far South Coast Dairy Development

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