Breeding EDGE workshop | Cloncurry, Queensland

Please note, due to floods this workshop has been cancelled. For more information please contact: info@mla.com.au

Breeding Edge is a three-day workshop designed to assist producers improve and refine their breeder herd management and genetic improvement plans.

Participants will be able to develop or refine a breeding herd management plan 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: Désirée Jackson (Désirée Jackson Livestock Management) and Tim Emery (Tropical Beef Technology Services).