It’s important to recognise that genetic progress is the long-game in any beef breeding enterprise. Breeders won’t improve short-term profitability by ramping up their spend at a bull sale.
Resources
Useful Tools
Here are a few tools we've developed to help our business. Hope you find them useful!
Drench Chart
So many parasites, classes, actives and manufacturers! Here’s a summary of drenches relevant to beef producers in SE Australia.
Critical Mating Weights
This reference table shows critical mating weights as a percentage of mature cow weight. See also: MLAs More Beef From Pastures
Gestation Chart
Here's a reference table for a 6 week joining including Bull in and out dates matched to calving start and end dates
Letter Codes
This table is a useful tool to look-up the birth year of an animal or to double-check you are not putting sires over daughters.
Blog
Recent Posts
2023 Genomics Project Observations
An overview of what we learned from the Genomics PDS in 2023
What is Maternal Effeciency?
Maternal efficiency is all about making sure a breeding enterprise is economical. In a self replacing herd, it’s estimated that 75% of the grass grown goes toward maintaining the cow herd. That only leaves us with a quarter of our pasture productivity to produce a saleable product.
Genomics PDS Observations 2022
The Genomics for Commercial Angus PDS continues to provide us with interesting revelations. In this update we look at how selecting replacement heifers with genomics adds significant value to your cull/surplus heifers.
Mineral Supplementation Trial #3
In this 3rd phase of our on-farm mineral supplementation trial, we explored whether there is a benefit to using a combination trace mineral supplement (e.g. Multimin) when we’ve identified that we have only a single mineral deficiency, in our case Selenium (Se).