Articles and advice
Animal health and disease
- Beware the humble lead battery…
- Grape marc: Friend or foe?
- Be on the lookout for ticks
- Pulpy Kidney – the one thing you wouldn’t think of in drought
- Confinement feeding – consider this risk!
- Grain poisoning in livestock
- Flystrike
- Mycoplasma ovis in sheep
- Check your rams
- Lead poisoning risk on farms - clean up your old batteries
- Rickets in lambs (August-September 2014)
- Landholders warned of recent losses from barbers pole worm
- Pimelea poisoning in cattle
- Brucellosis in Pig Dogs
- Swill feeding risks and restrictions
- Got big bull calves to castrate?
- Check for foot problems in sheep
- Bloat risk
- Grazing cereal crops
- Q fever – A raised awareness of disease and preventative vaccination
- Wet weather causing foot problems
- Beware the humble lead battery…
- Ticks suck - literally
- Guide to common sheep vaccines
- Farmers urged to report sightings of intensely irritating buffalo fly
- Bloat prevention pays at Coonamble
- Not always a worm problem
- Chemical residues and animal health
- Transitional arrangements for Johnes Disease
- Beware of the risk of grazing Lupin stubbles
- Losses due to metabolic disease in livestock
- Bloat deaths in cattle – Local land Services warning to graziers
- About the National Livestock Identification Scheme
- Grass seeds in sheep - a piercing issue
Crops and pastures
- Managing your grazing cereals to maximise production – Nitrogen application
- Managing your grazing cereals to maximise production – Grazing management
- Keep an eye on the mercury when spraying in-crop
- Managing your grazing cereals to maximise production - Insects
- Assessing pastures following rain
- Applying nitrogen – More than one way to skin a cat
- Heliothis 2016
- Early weaning of lambs
- Hand feeding stock after rain
- Feeding strategies and considerations
- Annual legumes with deep root systems – their value in pasture and livestock production
- Preparing paddocks for pasture sowing next year
- Options for flood affected paddocks over summer
- Get your pasture and seed sorted
- Insect pests in field crops
- Crown rot in cereals
Pest animals and insects
- Locust update: monitor for laying, check for eggs and report any activity
- Locust update: Cool weather reduces movement; watch for egg laying
- Locust update: Landholders to mark egg beds in preparation for spring
- Wild dog management
- Locust update: Cool weather to slow locust activity until spring
- Farmers warned to prepare for locust hatchings in coming months
- Farmers asked to check locust beds and report in 2015 spring campaign
- Locust update: Aerial inspections and follow-up inspection to combat central west locust
- Locust Update December 2015
- Watch out for locusts!
- Recent rain sparks warnings for locust hatching in central west NSW
- Locust update: watch for laying, check for eggs, be prepared for hatching
Livestock production
- Grazing sorghum and millet
- Early weaning – importance of getting nutrition right
- Increase feed quantity in cold and wet conditions
- Beware of the cold snap
- Nutrition in ewes leading up to joining, late winter – spring lambing
- Feed budgeting – Full hand-feeding sheep
- Sheep feeding options in dry periods
- Finishing Merino lambs in feedlots
- Livestock, vegetation and dry times: Decisions to be made
- Early weaning lambs
- Grazing management following rain
- Early weaning
- Joining ewes in drought
- Joining Ewe management
- Checking rams pre-joining