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| AGBU's work has greatly assisted the improvement of livestock through breeding in Australia and overseas. A vibrant scientific program continues with regular publication of research results in Scientific Journals. However, its main purpose is to meet ongoing demands from Australia's livestock industries for research, development and training in genetics. |
| Provides links to primefacts including dressing percentages, frame scoring and live cattle assesment. |
| The Beef CRC is a cooperative research centre for beef genetic technology. |
| Information on Bovine Pestivirus including diagnostics, risks and management information. |
| BREEDPLAN is a modern genetic evaluation system for beef cattle breeders. BREEDPLAN provides objective information on stock producers sell to commercial breeders. |
| The calving histogram has been developed to help you measure the performance of your herd management for calving. |
| The Cattle Council of Australia represents and promotes the interests of Australian beef producers. |
| The calculator is designed to provide you with a simple-to-use aid to calculating the cost of transporting stock on a ‘per kilogram’ basis, a ‘per head’ basis and a ‘total cost’ basis. |
| Provides a number of links to cattle yard design and equipment. |
| An interactive, 'do-it-yourself' tool to help beef producers figure out their cost of production (CoP) and compare their performance annually. |
| Describes a dry sheep equivalent system and indicates its limitations so that it may be used with more effect and discretion. |
| Information on Livestock Behaviour, Design of Facilities and Humane Slaughter
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| Calculates estimated dates of delivery and conception dates for a range of animals including sheep, cattle and pigs. |
| The Grain & Graze program aims to boost farm profitability across the mixed farming zone of southern Australia, while helping to protect the environment. |
| The Health cost benefit calculator has been developed to help you work out the benefit of applying an animal health treatment to your herd for bloat, clostridial diseases and grass tetany. |
| Website providing information on the red meat industry in Tasmania and buying and selling livestock requirements. |
| Meat & Livestock Australia provides R&D, market information and marketing to benefit the red meat industry |
| The National Feedlot Accreditation Scheme (NFAS) is an industry self-regulatory quality assurance scheme that was initiated by ALFA. |
| PROGRAZE is a grazing management skills course for sheep and beef producers which puts pasture and animal management skills together, to improve grazing decisions on the farm, and more effectively meet production and sustainability goals. |
| Quarantine Services has a wide range of responsibilities that include facilitation of exports and development of market access opportunities by providing preclearance barrier and post barrier control systems, technical data and quarantine integrity that is acknowledged in both the domestic and international marketplace. The Service also undertakes a quarantine barrier function to prevent the introduction of unwanted pests and diseases.
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| The recording systems outlined present a package of practical records for beef producers. |
| The Red Meat Targets program aims to increase the gross margin of red meat enterprises (beef and sheep meat) by at least 10 per cent over the next five years.
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| This calculator has been designed to help work out the number of animals you should put into a paddock. |
| Provides assistance to shippers of eligible goods, transported by sea between Tasmania and the Australian mainland, with the aim of reducing the freight cost disadvantage imposed by Bass Strait. |