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Post-Calving Season, Newborns and Heifers

Post-Calving Season, Newborns and Heifers

Once you have been through a successful calving season, you cannot abandon the work you have done. Continued support for the heifer and the newest addition to the farm is critical.

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Cow Herd Preparation for Calving Season

Cow Herd Preparation for Calving Season

Calving season in a beef operation often involves late, cold nights and tracking down pregnant heifers in the dark. That’s why being adequately prepared is essential to ensuring a smooth calving process that is stress-free.

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Top 5 Tips to Help You During Calving Season

Top 5 Tips to Help You During Calving Season

The calving season is an important time on any farm and can last from spring to autumn. With the average pregnancy lasting 283 days, the calving process can be a stressful time for everyone involved.

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Adapting Farming Practices to A Changing Climate

Adapting Farming Practices to A Changing Climate

The agriculture sector in Australia is crucial to both our society and economy. It fills our plates with food, offers a variety of job options, and boosts our economy through exports. It is also one of the sectors most vulnerable to climate change, being susceptible to variations in temperature, rainfall, and extreme weather.

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The Importance of a Cattle Crush for Your Livestock and Property

The Importance of a Cattle Crush for Your Livestock and Property

Including a quality, well designed cattle crush for your property is always done with cattle handling safety in mind as it can aid in reducing livestock stress, prevent unwanted injuries and improve management and efficiency. Involving such an essential aspect of cattle handling in your cattle yard can help elevate your cattle handling experience and provide safety for you and your cattle. When incorporating a cattle crush into your yard, it’s important to understand how it will benefit you and what to look out for.Read more

The Lifespan of Steel Workshop Sheds – Is Steel the Right Material?

The Lifespan of Steel Workshop Sheds – Is Steel the Right Material?

Steel buildings are regarded as a quality investment as they are known for their durability and longevity. In comparison to other popular building materials such as timber, steel has no match. Truly understanding the pros and cons of steel buildings can provide you with greater insight into whether a steel workshop is right for your property. 

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Managing Pasture Through Seasons Of High Rainfall

The quality of pasture that cattle eat is one of the largest determining factors affecting quality when producing meat. If cattle eat light dried grass too much, they lack the nutrients found in wet grass, and vice versa for a wet grass-dominated diet. Farmers looking to manage their cattle to perfection through abnormal weather patterns should focus on the changing quality of pastures.

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How To Manage Cattle Through Extreme Flooding

While Australian droughts have affected the ability for cattle farms to remain profitable, nothing creates devastation for farmers quite like flooding. Forceful currents and having areas submerged underwater commonly results in substantial property damage, bearing the ability to bankrupt a farm in a matter of days.

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What La Niña Means For Northern Cattle Farmers

The northern parts of Australia provide some of the most challenging weather conditions for farmers to profitably operate their farms. In a normal year, flash flooding, cyclones, extreme winds and high temperatures are a normal occurrence. Although every few years, an abnormal weather system occurs called La Niña, which brings higher rains to Australia and much of Asia, and drought to the west coast of America.

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Designing the Perfect Cattle Loading Ramp

The importance in an efficient loading ramp can have lasting effects on both the profitability of a farm and the quality of cattle. Refining and considering all the design elements that impact its functionality is an important step and cannot be undervalued when designing a cattle yard. Cattle loading ramps allow cattle to depart and arrive from farms in a safe and efficient manner, minimising the labour required from a farmer and stress upon the cattle.

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