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What to look out for with stock water quality and some tips to help
Don’t let water quality slip through the cracks
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Feed budgeting 101
Do you need a refresher on feed budgeting or perhaps you’re just learning how to conduct a feed budget? Then read ahead!
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Raising the bar with lamb survival
Lambing is fast approaching for most of you, with lambing already underway for some. This presents an opportunity to raise the bar on your marking results.
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Sheep nutrition over summer and autumn
Dry pastures and stubbles lack energy and protein and hence supplementary feeding is a large component of sheep diets later in summer and autumn. In addition, some vitamins and minerals may be lacking during the dry period. In this article, we cover some of the key nutritional supplements that may be required and animal health issues to keep an eye out for over summer and autumn
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Why Western Australian woolgrowers should stay with wool
The WA wool industry is currently facing significant challenges, so it's no surprise that many woolgrowers are considering moving away from wool. This article shares the results from a recent enterprise comparison study that suggests that switching enterprises is unlikely to significantly increase profits and provides some practical tips to help woolgrowers
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Reaping the benefits of pregnancy scanning
With rams now in or soon to go in with the ewes, it’s time to book in your pregnancy scanner or consider pregnancy scanning if this is not yet a practice you’ve adopted. This article dives into the latest economics of pregnancy scanning, including how to optimise the accuracy of scanning and how to turn the investment into profit
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Where to start with addressing salty land
Best-practice management of salinity on your farm will improve productivity and prevent further degradation of the land. This article dives into the latest practical tips for best-practice saline land management, salinity risk identification and the latest decision-support tools to help with managing saline land in your enterprise.
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Driving productivity with EID
Electronic identification tags (EID) are becoming mandatory, so why not make the most of the technology to help you achieve the goals of your sheep enterprise? We've pulled together some information to help you utilise data collected via EID to increase productivity and profit.
Beyond the Bale articles
Beyond the Bale is Australian Wool Innovation’s quarterly magazine for AWI shareholders, other wool levy payers and wool industry stakeholders.
Industry News
Winning With Weaners lifts performance
AWI’s ‘Winning With Weaners’ workshop helps woolgrowers identify key management strategies to improve the lifetime performance of their Merino weaners.
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Workshop to improve ram performance
RAMping Up Repro workshops give sheep and wool producers the skills to improve ram health, performance and longevity in their commercial sheep enterprises.
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Assessing, classing and selecting sheep
Assessing and selecting sheep to achieve optimal genetic gain involves a wide range of issues. This article works through the issues and breaks down some of the component topics that are often discussed.
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Wrinkle expression in the MLP project
As the Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP) project approaches completion, we can increasingly use this valuable industry resource to answer a range of questions relevant to Merino sheep producers. In this article we use the MLP project data to explore how Australian Sheep Breeding Values for breech wrinkle relate to actual raw measurements or scores on farm.
