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Breeding EDGE workshop | Cloncurry, QLD 2024
29 Jul 2024 08:00AM - 31 Jul 2024 05:00PM
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Location: Cloncurry, QLD
Cost: $1,950 + GST / 1st person from one business; $1,650 + GST / 2nd and 3rd person from same business (producers only). Cost includes comprehensive set of Workshop Notes, Workbook, electronic files, other materials and catering.
Breeding EDGE is a three-day workshop designed to assist producers improve and refine their breeder herd management and genetic improvement plans to achieve desired production targets.
Attending this workshop will help you to:
- identify where your current breeder herd and bull management programs can be improved to reduce reproductive loss
- measure reproductive performance more accurately
- identify strategies and management to improve selection, retention, management and performance
- develop or refine a practical and achievable management plan for the breeding herd that will lead to higher productivity
- gain a thorough understanding of genetic improvement for both breeding cattle and turn-off cattle and develop breeding objectives to take your herd in a more profitable direction.
What you will learn:
- current herd performance – what measures matter most
- reproduction and reproduction loss
- managing the breeders - systems
- bull fertility and management
- identifying “not so obvious” bull faults that impact reproduction
- reproductive diseases and diseases impacting reproduction
- breeder herd management plans
- genetic improvement of your herd (including breeding objectives)
- genetic principles and selection tools
- selection and selection criteria for traits important to you
- breeds and breeding systems.
Presenters: Felicity Hamlyn-Hill (Beef Enterprise Advisory Services), Tim Emery (Qld Department Agriculture & Fisheries) and Australian Cattle Veterinarians accredited vet (TBC).
Event flyer
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