Livestock & animals

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development supply chain support, research and development and rigorous biosecurity systems underpin the economic success of Western Australia’s livestock industries. In 2011/12, the WA livestock industries contributed 26% of the state’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry production, worth approximately $2 billion at the farm gate.

WA is a world leader in live exports, super fine wool production and dryland sheep and grain systems. Both cattle and sheep systems are focused on export markets to Asia and the Middle East. WA also has innovative, world-class integrated dairy and pork industries meeting local and South East Asian demand for safe, fresh milk and pork. The WA poultry industry is growing strongly as a result of increasing domestic consumption.

Global demand for high-quality, safe animal protein and products produced according to high animal welfare standards will continue to rise in coming years. Increasingly DAFWA will partner with industry -- locally, nationally and internationally -- in transformational business projects to capitalise on this demand.

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Upper secondary education resources

30 October 2013

The Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia supports the growth of Western Australia’s agrifood sector in four key areas: markets, productivity, profitability and people.
NLIS and identification - goats

22 September 2015

Identification of livestock is required by law under the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management (Identification and Movement of Stock and Apiaries) Regulations 2013 [BAM(IMSA)] Regulations.
Pasture feed on offer (FOO) and growth rate (PGR) maps for south-west Western Australia

5 July 2018

The Pastures from Space service estimates pasture feed on offer (FOO) and plant (pasture and crop) growth rates (PGR) for the south-west of Western Australia each week during the growing season.
Maintaining livestock water quality on small landholdings

24 March 2014

Monitoring water quality and quantity is vital to sustain stock condition during summer and to prevent illness and possible death from toxic pollutants.
Climate change and broadacre livestock production

31 March 2016

Climate change will affect livestock production in the agricultural areas of Western Australia in different ways, with some regions and enterprises benefiting and some not.
Livestock and Carbon

22 April 2020

DPIRD is committed to supporting livestock producers and the wider industry in their understanding of carbon emissions by enterprise and is taking mitigation action towards achieving carbon neutral
Understanding Pastures from Space for South West Western Australia

23 May 2019

Pastures from Space estimates green feed on offer (FOO) and the pasture growth rate (PGR).
Fertiliser nitrogen for intensively grazed dairy pastures

4 April 2014

The Greener Pastures project was set up to assist the Australian dairy industry meet the two major challenges in managing high performing pasture systems: maintaining profitability while meeting th
Fertiliser sulphur for intensively grazed dairy pastures

4 April 2014

The Greener Pastures project was set up to assist the Australian dairy industry meet the two major challenges in managing high performing pasture systems: maintaining profitability while meeting th
Managing soil acidity in intensively grazed dairy pastures

4 April 2014

The Greener Pastures project was set up to assist the Australian dairy industry meet the two major challenges in managing high performing pasture systems: maintaining profitability while meeting th