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.
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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.
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Recent Posts
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).
Resilience in Beef Enterprises
Now is the time to be thinking about strategies to mitigate the impact of future ‘tougher’ times. Here are my thoughts and a virtual tour of some of the investments we’ve made to build resilience in our commercial beef enterprise in recent years.
The Case Against FTAI of Commercial Heifers
Many advocates of FTAI make a compelling case for using the practice on commercial heifers. However we don’t think the reasons stack up in our commercial enterprise. Here’s why.
Genetics that drive profitability
Maintaining breeding cows uses around 75% of all the grass you grow. That’s why maternal efficiency and fertility are key profit drivers.