Breeding EDGE workshop | Cloncurry

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).