Prime Lamb Helpline
Congratulations on taking the first step to increasing the productivity and profitability of your prime lamb enterprise. The White Suffolk is an Australian breed developed for Australian conditions. Their performance is consistently increasing profitability for lamb producers in the market place - can you afford not to be using them?
The AWSA has collated the following list of resources that will provide valuable information and tools for you. This page is a work in progress and it will be continually updated on a regular basis. We have listed the resources under the following headings:
- General Lamb Production
- Making more from Sheep
- Ram Selection
- Managing Grass Seeds
- Training & Development
- Research & Development
- Artificial Breeding Techniques
- How to calculate your total ABD OJD points
General Prime Lamb Production
MLA's Tips & Tools- practical and easy to follow information sheets designed to deliver the outcomes of R&D to livestock producers in an on-farm 'how to' format. Featured Tips & Tools include:
- Animal health & welfare
- Animal genetics
- Animal production
- Business management
- Feedbase and pastures
- Meat Standards Australia (MSA)
- Natural resource management
Making More From Sheep
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) have joined forces to develop Making More From Sheep, a best practice package of information, tools and learning opportunities for Australian sheep producers.
Almost 250 leading sheep producers and technical experts helped develop the 11 linked modules in the manual, which cover subjects ranging from soils and pasture to wool and meat marketing, animal health, genetics and farm sustainability.
This website contains all the content within the Making More From Sheep manual and cd-rom, and also gives you information about upcoming Making More From Sheep forums, workshops and other learning activities.
www.makingmorefromsheep.com.au
Ram Selection
LAMBPLAN - www.lambplan.com.au
- EBV definitions - guide to understanding the key Estimated Breeding Values used by Lambplan
- An Introduction to Lambplan - LAMBPLAN enables sheep breeders to reduce
the risk associated with ram selection, improve the rate of genetic gain of their flocks, more reliably meet market specifi cations and improve overall productivity.
STOCKSCAN -www.stockscan.co.nz/services.asp
Managing Grass Seeds
4 part series published by the Stock Journal in association with the SA Lamb Development Team
- Good management key to top price (52KB .pdf)- written by Dale Cameron, Tatiara Meat, Bordertown SA - highlights the inconvenience and costs resulting from seed infested lambs from a processors point of view
- Seed damage to skins costly (57KB .pdf)- written by Paul Fitzsummons, SA Manager, Kreglinger Australia - looks at the value of lambs skins and managament practices to avoid damaging them.
- Plan strategies to cut impact on end product (45KB .pdf) - written by Scott Hutchings, Agronomist, Wesfarmers Landmark, Keith - outlines the best agronomic methods to reduce the risk of contamination
- Alliance boosts product, profits - (56KB .pdf) - written by Noel Evans, SA Lamb Team Member, Wesfarmers Landmark - on the benefits of forming a breeder-feeder alliance.
Training and Development Workshops
EDGEnetwork is a range of practical workshop sessions and learning opportunities which help you gain knowledge and develop skills to improve your livestock enterprises.
Workshops include:
- Prograze
- Wean More Lambs
- Making the Most of Mutton
- Effective Breeding Programs
- Bizcheck for Meat
Contact:
Phone MLA EDGEnetwork on 1800 993 343
or email edgenetwork@mla.com.au
Research & Development
- Sheep CRC - www.sheepcrc.org.au
- Sheep CRC / Information Nucleus - www.sheepcrc.org.au/INF
- Sheep Genomics - www.sheepgenomics.com
Artificial Breeding Techniques
Murray Long has compiled tips and tricks and infomration shared at the 2009 Annual Conference of the AWSA in Albury 2009.