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Annual Graham Centre Beef Field Daylivestock health and pest authority

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.

Meat_and_Livestock_AustraliaThe 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.