Drought: A Guide for Farmers and Land Managers
March 2007
ISBN 978-1-74199-055-3 (print) ISBN 978-1-74199-035-5 (online)Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
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Chapter 1 Preparing for drought
- Developing an action plan
- Courses of action
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Chapter 2 Pasture management and utilisation in drought
- Maximising winter production
- Nitrogen fertiliser
- Pasture as a component of drought rations
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Chapter 3 Monitoring stock condition
- Feeding cattle for controlled weight loss
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Chapter 4 Choosing a feed
- A balanced ration and the nutritional value of different feeds
- Energy
- Protein
- Fibre
- Dry matter
- Costing fodders on energy value
- How to calculate the cost of feed on an energy basis
- Other factors to consider when buying fodder
- Drought feeding of stock – the risk of chemical residues
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Chapter 5 Feeding cattle
- Nutritional requirements of beef cattle
- Energy and protein requirements of various classes of cattle
- Minerals
- Vitamins
- Feeding straw and urea
- Molasses
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Chapter 6 Water during a drought
- Will I have enough water?
- Animal requirements
- How to calculate how much water you have
- Water quality
- What options are available to reduce water requirements?
- Actions to address a water shortage
- Chapter 7 Feeding grain to cattle
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Chapter 8 Animal health and welfare
- Health and welfare problems in beef herds in a drought
- Class of livestock affected
- The effect of disease on drought-affected cattle
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Chapter 9 Feeding in stock containment areas
- When to utilise a stock containment area
- Animal health
- Chapter 10 Early weaning of beef calves
- Chapter 11 Creep feeding of beef calves
- Chapter 12 Opportunity lotfeeding of beef cattle
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Chapter 13 Stock and pasture management at the end of a drought
- Feeding stock at the end of a drought
- Pasture recovery after a drought
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Chapter 14 The feed value of unusual feedstuffs
- High moisture content feeds
- Blending and levels of feeding
- Types of feeds
- By-product energy concentrates
- By-product protein concentrates
- By-product roughage
- Chapter 15 FEEDTEST® – feed quality assessment for beef cattle
- Appendix 1
- List of Tables
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