Longford Red Meat Group Producer Demonstration Site Field Day | Westwood TAS

The Longford Red Meat Group (LRMG) is a group of young, progressive red meat producers looking to lift their profitability by improving their pasture and grazing management skills to increase pasture production and utilisation. They work together to solve some of the challenges in implemening best practice grazing management within irrigated cropping/grazing systems.

LRMG is running a 3 year Producer Demonstration Site, funded by MLA, coordinated by Macquarie Franklin and supported by TP Jones. The question the group wants to answer is: Taking into account the influence of the type of pasture (ryegrass vs white clover) and animal health considerations, are there production and profit benefits associated with modifying fencing infrastructure under centre pivots to improve grazing management and pasture utilisation?

The results from the first season of summer grazing at trial site 1 (Chester) are hot off the press. You are invited to visit the trial site and find out more about:

• The trial activities and results
• The value of eID in livestock management
• How clover seed production can complement lamb finishing systems
• The penalty for not getting irrigation right under high performance grazing systems

Presenters:

• LRMG trial host Andrew Archer from Chester
• Basil Doonan from Macquarie Franklin
• Iain Bruce and James Brown from TP Jones