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Stocking rate calculator (Beef and Sheep)

This calculator has been designed to help work out the number of animals you should put into a paddock.

Animal genetics and breeding unit

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.

Breedplan

BREEDPLAN is a modern genetic evaluation system for beef cattle breeders. BREEDPLAN provides objective information on stock producers sell to commercial breeders.

Australian Lowline Cattle Association

You'll find useful information on the Lowline breed, the association and its projects.

Selectabull

Selectabull is a free web tool produced by the Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme. It allows you to find the best bulls for your breeding program, Access dairy industry's independant ABV data, improve farm profit with planned genetic selection and build an effective breeding objective for future years.

Australian Pesticides & Veterinary Medicines Authority Online Services

Coverage: Please note that some of the online services require you to be a registered user of the system. Covers Annual Returns, Permits Search Facility, Registered Products Database (PUBCRIS) and Adverse Experience Report for Veterinary Chemical Products (Voluntary).

Australian Alpaca Association

Tasmanian section on national organisation promoting the concept of alpaca as a viable and sustainable primary industry.

Dermo - Lumpy Wool

Lumpy wool (dermatophilosis or mycotic dermatitis) is an infectious disease of the skin of sheep and other animals. This website details the nature of the condition and options with management.

ABC Landline market reports

ABC Landline provides the latest information on agricultural markets around Australia.

Livestock and Meat Australia (ABS publication) - August 2007

Statistics about slaughtered livestock.

Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme

The Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme (ADHIS) is an initiative of the Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF) maintaining a national database of performance and pedigree details for individual dairy animals.

Cattle transport costs calculator

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.

Feeding and managing sheep in dry times

Provides information on feeding, sheep and pasture management options, animal health, cost calculators economics and other strategic management decisions.

Angus Australia

Provides information on the breed, association and marketing and research.

Angus Youth

Angus Youth membership is open to young beef cattle enthusiasts 25 years of age or under. Angus Youth members are provided with opportunities to further their beef industry knowledge and communication skills, to develop a network of beef industry contacts, and to make new friends with similar interests.

Animal Health Australia

Animal Health Australia (AHA) is a not-for-profit public company established by the Australian, state and territory governments and major national livestock industry organisations. AHA's mission is to ensure that the national animal health system delivers a competitive advantage and preferred market access for Australia's livestock industries.

Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicine Authority

The APVMA operates the Australian system which evaluates, registers and regulates agricultural and veterinary chemicals. This site documents information about the registration status of herbicides and agvet chemicals.

AuctionsPlus

AuctionPlus provides electronic online auctions of livestock and their relevant reports.

National Feedlot Accreditation Scheme

The National Feedlot Accreditation Scheme (NFAS) is an industry self-regulatory quality assurance scheme that was initiated by ALFA.

AWEX - market Information

AWEX Market Information Services provides a range of industry market reports based on daily, weekly, monthly, and annual cycles for the wool market.

Beef CRC

The Beef CRC is a cooperative research centre for beef genetic technology.

Australian Belted Galloway Association

Find useful information on the breed, sales, the association, and its projects.

Australian Border Leicester Association

Find useful information on the breed, sales, the association, and shows.

Australian Brahman Breeders Association

Provides news, sales and information on Brahman cattle in Australia.

Cattle Council of Australia

The Cattle Council of Australia represents and promotes the interests of Australian beef producers.

Charolais Society of Australia

Provides news, sales and information on Charolais cattle in Australia.

Australian Corriedale Association

Find information on breed, market reports, shows and results, news, calendar of events and more.

Farming and food research (CSIRO)

CSIRO research on food production and farming systems.

Export livestock transportation

Provides information on basic standards for export livestock transportation.

Dairyweb

Dairyweb is a web-based communications solution that enables dairy organisations to improve their communications with dairy farmers. Dairyweb provides a range of services and tools that enable organisations to streamline their communications with their milk suppliers and for dairy farmers to conveniently access important business information.

Dorper sheep society of Australia

Dorper sheep society of Australia homepage.

Beef cattle appraisal

Provides links to primefacts including dressing percentages, frame scoring and live cattle assesment.

Cattle yards and equipment

Provides a number of links to cattle yard design and equipment.

Record keeping for herd improvement

The recording systems outlined present a package of practical records for beef producers.

Sheep feeding and nutirion

Provides links to a number of primefacts on sheep feeding and nutrition.

Sheep management

Provides a number of links to primefacts on sheep management.

Sheep yards & equipment

Provides links to a number of primefacts on sheep yard design and equipment.

Sheep feedlot calculator

The feedlot calculator is easy to use and allows you to make well-informed decisions about the likely financial outcome before committing yourself.

Fat score of ewes at joining - the benefits of optimal nutrition

Provides information on fat score targets for breeding ewes at joining and how conception rates could improve if these targets are reached.

Drought recovery options - utilising vacant DSE capacity

Provides information on herd and flock rebuilding, grain, graze or cropping, trading stock or agistment and key considerations for recovery.

Fat scoring sheep and lambs

Provides the method for fat scoring and manual fat scoring assessment criteria and tissue depth.

Horse flu video (Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries Qld website)

The University of Queensland has produced a short video showing what equine influenza looks like.

Drought information (Vic Govt)

The Victorian Government has formed the Drought Taskforce and made available a number of resources to help the community get through this drought. This website contains a variety of information from DPI and other agencies.

Australian Droughtmaster Society

Provides news, sales and information on Droughtmaster cattle in Australia.

Grain and Graze

The Grain & Graze program aims to boost farm profitability across the mixed farming zone of southern Australia, while helping to protect the environment.

Herefords Australia

Provides services to members- communication, registrations, information, marketing and breed promotion of Herefords in Australia.

NLIS equipment compatibility - Kondinin Group

Finding compatible electronic identification readers, scales and herd management software can be a major stumbling block for producers keen to use the technology on-farm. This report helps determine the ideal set-up to record data for herd management or to simply satisfy regulatory movement requirements.

LiceBoss

LiceBoss is a computerised decision support system that helps woolgrowers estimate the probability of lice infestation, estimate the degree of wool loss and offer suggestions on available chemicals and expected residue levels.

Feed budget tables

Feed budget tables for drought/dry conditions in southern Australia.

Australian Limousin Breeders Society

Find useful information on the breed, sales, the association, and its projects.

Livestock Library

A free to use online database of more than 22,000 livestock resources, including journal articles and conference proceedings spanning more than 50 years. Everything linked to by the Livestock Library is accessible in full text; publishers may charge for access.

Making more from sheep

Provides information on business, pastures, resources and sheep technology to help producers increase the productivity and profitability of their enterprises.

Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders

The Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders encourages, promotes and fosters the breeding and improvement of stud Merino and Poll Merino sheep, and compiles and publishs a register of Merino and Poll Merino stud sheep in Australia.

Australian Miniture Hereford Network

The Australian Miniature Hereford Network is a group of breeders dedicated to developing miniature Herefords worldwide. The network provides new breeders with access to quality stud breeding cattle and embryos and semen.

Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA)

Meat & Livestock Australia provides R&D, market information and marketing to benefit the red meat industry

Weed removers, pasture improvers - effect weed control

Effective long term control of pasture weeds can be obtained from an integrated approach incorporating a range of management tools. This factsheet outlines the three main steps of a successful weed management program.

National Livestock Identification System (MLA)

The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) is Australia’s system for the identification and tracing of livestock. Here you can access the tools and resources to help you implement NLIS in your business successfully.

Health cost benefit calculator

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.

Calving histogram calculator

The calving histogram has been developed to help you measure the performance of your herd management for calving.

Cost of production calculator - beef

An interactive, 'do-it-yourself' tool to help beef producers figure out their cost of production (CoP) and compare their performance annually.

Cost of production calculator - lamb

An interactive, 'do-it-yourself' tool kit to help lamb and sheep producers figure out their cost of production (CoP) and compare their performance annually.

Drought tools (MLA)

Here you will find some useful information that may help you manage your animals and pastures through the dry times.

Meat & Livestock Australia - domestic market reports

Through its network of livestock market officers, the National Livestock Reporting Service collects market data from the key auction and direct markets across Australia, in addition to slaughter statistics, wholesale, skin and hide prices.

MLA Scholarships

Provides links to the various scholarships supported by Meat Livestock Australia.

Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society

Provides news, sales and information on Maurray Grey cattle in Australia.

Drought information (SA Govt)

Various links and information for farmers experiencing drought conditions including: exceptional circumstances; irrigation/water management; drought management publications; feed and seed register; and other relevant publications.

Livestock water supplies

Information on the quantity and quality of water used for livestock water supplies.

Polwarth sheep breeders association of Australia

Find information on breed, history, news and current breeders.

RSPCA

The RSPCA's mission iso prevent cruelty to animals by actively promoting their care and protection.

Sheep CRC

The CRC for Sheep Industry Innovation is a collaboration between Australia's leading sheep industry organisations, which is supported under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Program.

Lambplan

Sheep Genetics is a joint program of Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).

Australian Shorthorn Association

Find useful information on the breed, sales, the association, and its projects.

Southdown Australia

Includes information on breed, history, sales, health, news and current breeders.

Suffolk sheep society of Australia

Find useful information on breed, sales and the association.

Dairy greenhouse gases calculator

Helps identify the major sources of emission and explore the impact of changed management options on your property.

Australian Texel Stud Breeders Association Inc.

Provides useful information on the breed, sales, the association, and its projects.

Woolcheque

Brought to you by Australian Wool Innovation AWI, woolcheque is free, simple to use, and allows you to independently price your wool clip based on the latest daily or historical wool prices.

Drought resources (AWI)

AWI has available a variety of information to assist with decision making during drought. A key research focus for AWI continues to be the best management practices available to Australian woolgrowers when in preparation for, or already under, drought conditions.
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