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Annual Graham Centre Beef Field Day
Thursday 4 August 2011
The Annual Graham Centre Beef Field Day was held on Thursday the 4th of August 2011 at the Convention Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga campus.
The theme of this year’s field day was REPRODUCTION. The program included several short presentations followed by workshops in the afternoon. Please click on the links to the appropriate topics below.
Should you have any further enquiries, please contact Ms Toni Nugent (02) 6938-1806 or tnugent@csu.edu.au.
| Subject | Time | Title presentation | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Live Cattle Trade | 9.00 -9.30 | The live cattle trade: do we export or not, the $1 billion question? |
Professor Peter Wynn (CSU) |
| Disease Management | 9.30-10.00 | Anthelmintic resistance in beef cattle (results of a field trial) | Yvette Brockwell (CSU) |
| Nutrition | 10.00-10.30 | Grazing management and profitability | Brian Cumming (I&I) |
| Coffee & Tea break | |||
| Economics | 10.30 – 11.00 | Whole herd management to increase profits | Colin Scrivener (Fred Morley Unit) |
| Genetics | 11.30 – 12.00 | Breeding evaluation and soundness of bulls | Scott Norman (CSU) |
| Lunch break | |||
| Workshop 1 Reproduction |
13.00 – 14.15 | Breeding evaluation of bulls (hands on session with bulls and abattoir materials) | Scott Norman (CSU) |
| Workshop 2 Management |
14.45 – 16.00 | Setting up a reproductively efficient cow herd - herd management and genetics | Ian Locke (Wirruna Poll Hereford, Holbrook) |
For copies of presentations from the 2010 Beef Field Day, please click here.