A new project to boost the efficiency and marketability of the northern cattle herd by accelerating genetic improvement has kicked off in the Kimberley and the Pilbara.
The Department of Primary Industry and Regional Development’s (DPIRD) Katanning Research Station (KRS) is a sheep, pasture and cropping research hub in WA.
The project’s purpose is to help protect the profitability of WA sheep production in the face of climate change, increasing climate variability and increasing demand to mitigate greenhouse gas emis
New Johne’s disease (JD) import conditions for the movement of cattle, alpacas, camels, deer and goats into Western Australia will come into effect on 17 January 2022, aligning with the current JD
Farmers, pastoralists and small landholders get more choice from 1 January 2022 about how their livestock are identified, with earmarking of cattle and sheep and branding of cattle becoming optiona
Maintaining feed-on-offer at around 2 t DM/ha for four weeks around the Timerite® date in spring can effectively control RLEM in the following growing season.
