Productivity & Profitability Webinar - Hot tips for Top Heifers

Speaker: Elke Hocking  Elke Hocking Consulting

Elke is a private consultant with over 20 years’ experience, having worked in public and private sectors in research, development and adoption roles across the livestock industry. Additional to providing consultancy services, Elke holds a number of industry committee positions and runs a prime lamb and beef cattle enterprise with her husband on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Elke is passionate about producers being able to profitably and sustainably produce high yielding beef and lamb that meets consumers’ expectations in terms of eating quality, nutrition and safety through the adoption of new technology, best practice production systems, value-based trading and a positive, professional approach to business.

This webinar bring together findings from various MLA funded projects focusing on managing the health and reproductive performance of heifers to optimise whole herd productivity.

The webinar will cover:

• Proactively managing weaner heifers to achieve critical mating weight targets and condition scores prior to joining to improve the reproduction rates in their heifers and second calving cows.
• Developing an annual management and health plan for your beef business, to optimise the health and welfare, reduce mortality rates, achieve target liveweights and realise the genetic potential of your herd.
• The importance of measuring and monitoring liveweight, body condition score (BCS), pasture quality and quantity, animal health, calving time and genetics for managing reproductive performance.