Breeding EDGE | Townsville

Breeding EDGE is a three-day workshop designed to assist producers improve and refine their breeder herd management and genetic improvement plans using genetic and reproductive knowledge and technologies, to achieve desired production targets.

Attending this workshop will help you to:
• identify where the current breeder herd management program can be improved to reduce reproductive loss
• measure reproductive performance more accurately
• identify strategies and management to improve bull selection, retention, management and performance
• develop, or refine, a practical and achievable management plan for the breeding herd that will lead to higher productivity
• gain a thorough understanding of genetic improvement for both breeding cattle and turnoff cattle and develop breeding objectives to take your herd in a more profitable direction.

What you will learn:
• current herd performance – what measures matter most
• reproduction and reproduction loss
• managing the breeders – systems
• bull fertility and management
• identifying “not so obvious” bull faults that impact reproduction
• reproductive diseases and diseases impacting reproduction
• breeder herd management plans
• genetic improvement of your herd (including breeding objectives)
• genetic principles and selection tools
• selection and selection criteria for traits important to you
• breeds and breeding systems.

Presenters: Felicity Hamlyn-Hill (Beef Enterprise Advisory Services), Tim Emery (Qld Department Agriculture & Fisheries) and Dr Geoff Fordyce (ACV & BULLCHECK accredited vet).

Location: Townsville, Qld

Cost: A subsidy is available for Burdekin catchment producers: $1,350* + GST (1st person from one business ) or $1,050* + GST (2nd & 3rd person from same business). *Subsidy available thanks to NQ Dry Tropics via support from The Herding Change Through Grassroots Recovery project which is funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. Non-Burdekin catchment producers to pay $1,750 + GST (1st person from one business) or $1,450 + GST (2nd and 3rd person from same business). A Corporate rate + GST is available for 5 or more participants from the one business.