VOL 68 Limiting spray drift 15 February 2018 Pastoral Feed Outlook 20 Inside this issue: Pastoral Market Update 22 Recent insights on cattle gut parasites 1 Recent insights on cattle gut parasites Editorial 2 Livestock disease investigations 3 Jocelyn Coventry, Pastoral Production Officer Foot & Mouth Disease excluded in Department of Primary Industry and Resources Alice Springs – salivating cattle in Alice 5 Background Slaughtering, processing and sale of in the NT 6 meat Towards the end of last year, August 2017, an animal health day was organised by Landmark Springs. The day featured speakers New Livestock Biosecurity – presenting over a range of issues for cattle management decisions in Network staff member 7 pastoral businesses of Central Australia. Figure 1 was presented to Declaration of a Fire Danger Area attendees to illustrate the complex relationships and why integrated & Fire Danger Period 8 management would be required to address these. For example, cattle health and nutrition are key issues that are negatively affected by cattle Breeding Edge Workshop 9 gut parasites (intestinal worms and coccidia), however, good cattle health and nutrition are also critical for development of immunity to limit those Beef Producer survey 10 negative effects. Developing Tennant and the Barkly 11 Continued on page 3 Exploring for the future 12 AZRI Relocation 13 Editorial It is nearly the end of a long and hot summer; my second in Alice Springs. Having grown up with Tasmanian summers, longing for hot and dry weather, it feels as though my dreams have come true. Thankfully there has been rain in some parts of Central Australia over the summer period, allowing some pasture growth, which can be seen in the feed outlook at the end of this newsletter. With research stations at Old Man Plains (OMP) and the Arid Zone Research Institute (AZRI), we are familiar with the new technology used to make our lives easier, like remote telemetry to control watering points for cattle, irrigation tanks and bores. Often these are connected through the existing mobile phone network or ultra-high frequency radio. As most of us know, however, lightning strikes, power fluctuations and collapsing solar panels can test the
VOL 68 February 2018 Inside this issue: Recent insights on cattle gut parasites 1 Editorial 2 Livestock disease investigations 3 Foot & Mouth Disease excluded in salivating cattle in Alice 5 Slaughtering, processing and sale of meat in the NT 6 New Livestock Biosecurity Network staff member 7 Declaration of a Fire Danger Area & Fire Danger Period 8 Breeding Edge Workshop 9 Beef Producer survey 10 Developing Tennant and the Barkly 11 Exploring for the future 12 AZRI Relocation 13 Limiting spray drift 15 Pastoral Feed Outlook 20 Pastoral Market Update 22 Recent insights on cattle gut parasites Jocelyn Coventry, Pastoral Production Officer Department of Primary Industry and Resources – Alice Springs Background Towards the end of last year, August 2017, an animal health day was organised by Landmark – Springs. The day featured speakers presenting over a range of issues for cattle management decisions in pastoral businesses of Central Australia. Figure 1 was presented to attendees to illustrate the complex relationships and why integrated management would be required to address these. For example, cattle health and nutrition are key issues that are negatively affected by cattle gut parasites (intestinal worms and coccidia), however, good cattle health and nutrition are also critical for development of immunity to limit those negative effects. Continued on page 3 Editorial It is nearly the end of a long and hot summer; my second in Alice Springs. Having grown up with Tasmanian summers, longing for hot and dry weather, it feels as though my dreams have come true. Thankfully there has been rain in some parts of Central Australia over the summer period, allowing some pasture growth, which can be seen in the feed outlook at the end of this newsletter. With research stations at Old Man Plains (OMP) and the Arid Zone Research Institute (AZRI), we are familiar with the new technology used to make our lives easier, like remote telemetry to control watering points for cattle, irrigation tanks and bores. Often these are connected through the existing mobile phone network or ultra-high frequency radio. As most of us know, however, lightning strikes, power fluctuations and collapsing solar panels can test the
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