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Dry Times – Strategies for managing a late break & lambing

Farm Decision Making: The interaction of personality, farm business and risk to make more informed decisions.

Containment & supplementation & lambing – Where are the ewes at? Containment/sacrifice paddocks, How long to keep pregnant ewes in containment and releasing successfully?  Setting up lambing paddocks and feeding over lambing.

Deb Scammell, Talking Livestock – Presentation

Methods of feeding in containment video  https://youtu.be/zVhriwemUmY

Setting up ewe containment feeding area – YouTube

Ewe Containment Nutrition – Deb Scammell (youtube.com)

Pasture & Fodder Options – What do we have on hand? Buying feed/Feed Test, Metabolisable Energy – what’s required? Acidosis, Pregnancy Toxaemia, When to graze? Pasture tools if moisture is available Gibberellic Acid & Urea, Post Winter Spring feed options.  

Andrew Speirs, Meridian Agriculture – Presentation

Grazing Crops – Risks vs Rewards

 Simon Falkiner, Falkiner Ag – Presentation

Grazing Cropped Land: A summary of the latest information on grazing winter crops from the Grain & Graze Program

Post Lambing to Early Weaning Strategies – Ewe recovery & Early Weaning  

Dr Andrew Kennedy, Thrive Agri Services – Presentation

LIFETIME EWE MANAGAMENT – Course Information

Feed Test Information

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