Nutrition EDGE | Katherine

The Nutrition EDGE package is tailored for your conditions and enterprise management. It is designed to equip you to make decisions that ultimately help to achieve your herd performance targets through improved breeder fertility, weight gains, optimal use of supplements and overall management.

During the workshop you will:

• Better understand the nutritional requirements of your cattle
• Be able to estimate the feed value of pasture and estimate animal production
• Know what supplements to feed
• Understand a feed label
• Save money on supplementary and drought feeding
• Make better management decisions for a range of seasonal conditions

The workshop package includes:

• Three-day workshop (with a field session)
• Follow-up day (approximately 3-6 months later)
• Workshop notes and reference material
• Morning teas, afternoon teas and lunches

The workshop uses an interactive style and builds on participants’ knowledge.

Workshop topics:

• Digestive system of ruminants and use of nutrients, intake and production
• Pasture growth and quality, and indicators and factors that affect them
• Grazing management and animal performance
• How to manage supply of nutrients from pasture to grazing animals
• Identifying mineral and vitamin deficiencies and how to manage for them
• Managing nutritional deficiencies
• Supplementation and associated economics
• Identifying lick groups and understanding lick labels
• Calculating cost comparisons between supplements

Date & location:

Katherine, Monday 25 July - Wednesday 27 July

Cost:

1 person from a business    $1,600 + GST
2 people from a business    $1,350  + GST each
3 people from a business   $1,100 + GST each

More information:

For further information and to register contact Désirée Jackson M: 0409 062 692 E: desireejackson@bigpond.com

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