The FutureBeef Podcast: Recent Episodes
FutureBeef
Exploring issues and management strategies relevant to the north Australian beef industry through lively and informative conversation. FutureBeef is a collaboration between Meat and Livestock Australia and the agricultural departments of Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
In this episode we’re exploring a range of options for supplementing stock in the dry season. How should we do it, how should we do it and how can we do it in the most cost-effective way?
To take us through the details is Mick Sullivan, a senior beef extension officer with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, based out of Rockhampton.
Host Jayne Cuddihy joined Mick on Ian and Penny McGibbon’s property, Amitdale at St Lawrence in Queensland to gain some practical insight into how some of Mick’s guidelines to dry season supplementation have been applied.
For more information visit futurebeef.com.au
This podcast was brought to you by GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience as part of the Farm Business Resilience Program. This program is jointly funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and the Queensland Government’s Drought and Climate Adaptation Program.
In this episode we’re exploring a range of options for managing and supplementing weaner cattle. How should we do it, how should we do it and how can we do it in the most cost-effective way?
To take us through the details is Mick Sullivan, a senior beef extension officer with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, based out of Rockhampton.
Host Jayne Cuddihy joined Mick on Ian and Penny McGibbon’s property, Amitdale at St Lawrence in Queensland to gain some practical insight into how some of Mick’s guidelines to weaner management have been applied.
For more information visit futurebeef.com.au
This podcast was brought to you by GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience as part of the Farm Business Resilience Program. This program is jointly funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and the Queensland Government’s Drought and Climate Adaptation Program.
In this episode we’re exploring a range of options for supplementing with molasses.
To take us through the details is Mick Sullivan, a senior beef extension officer with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, based out of Rockhampton.
Host Jayne Cuddihy joined Mick on Ian and Penny McGibbon’s property, Amitdale at St Lawrence in Queensland to gain some practical insight into how some of Mick’s guidelines have been applied and tap into Ian's extensive supplementation regime.
For more information visit futurebeef.com.au
This podcast was brought to you by GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience as part of the Farm Business Resilience Program. This program is jointly funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and the Queensland Government’s Drought and Climate Adaptation Program.
The FutureBeef team and the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) have been managing an unprecendented event of Pasture Dieback. So what is it and how can pastoralists manage and prevent it? This episode covers all the tricky questions with DAF's Stuart Buck and Kylie Hopkins, with some tremendous insights from Injune beef producer Owen Price.
Pasture specialists in Northern Australia have spent decades researching cost effective ways to improve soil quality, cattle production values and businesses’ bottom lines. After a few good seasons and an even more buoyant cattle market, there’s an exciting new broad uptake of pasture and legume varieties.
In this episode we hear from four esteemed gentlemen with extensive knowledge in pastures, agronomy and northern Australian beef production systems in Craig Lemin, Research Officer, Sown Pastures Animal Science, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Kendrick Cox, a pasture researcher with a background in seed crop agronomy, Bernie English, a senior beef extension officer with DAF and Joe Rolfe- principal beef extension officer with DAF.
For more information visit the FutureBeef website
Having the correct amount of phosphorus is critical to the health of your herd. The beef team at the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries have come up with a range of strategies and calculators to making your decisions in the paddock and on the budget easier.
In fact, in this episode Mick "The Mixmaster" Sullivan- Principal Beef Extension Officer, DAF Rockhampton and beef extension officer Kylie Hopkins admit their deep passion for everything phosphorus related.
For more information on any of the concepts they mention, including how to diagnose phosphorus deficiency, feed rate calculators and mixes click here to visit the FutureBeef website.
Or for more information on planning and managing a supplementary feeding program click here.
Graziers produce cattle as part of a business- but research shows we are losing money in the paddock because a lack of awareness around conception rates.
What should we be looking for and why? In this episode we’re talking to Roxanne Morgan – a beef extension officer with Queensland's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, based in Mackay about her personal journey of discovery around the breeding prowess of her herd and how it completely changed the direction of her career.
Dave Smith is a Charters Towers based DAF extension officer who takes us for a little trip down memory lane with the Cash Cow project and why now, more than ever, the results from that study are so relevant.
For more information on the concepts and tools Roxanne and Dave discuss, visit the FutureBeef website
For more specific information on the Northern Australian beef fertility project or, Cash Cow as we know it click here