Beef

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Breeds

Dexter cattle
Highland cattle
Lowline cattle

Diseases & Health

Annual ryegrass toxicity
Anthrax in Animals
Beef Measles
Benefits of NLIS on Dairy Farms (PDF 174kb)
Biosecurity - A Practical Approach For Beef Herds (PDF 78KB)
BJD: Avoiding Bovine Johne's Disease when Agisting Cattle (PDF 64kb)
BJD: Bovine Johne's Disease: Guidelines for Shows and Sales (PDF 53kb)
BJD: Control Options for Bovine Johne's Disease in Beef Herds (PDF 74kb)
BJD: Control Options for Bovine Johne's Disease in Dairy Herds (PDF 70kb)
BJD: Diagnostic Tests for Bovine Johne’s Disease (PDF 56kb)
BJD: Enhanced Trading Options for Dairy Herds in the Victorian Johne’s Disease Control Program (PDF 51kb)
BJD: Enhanced Trading Options for Land Carrying Dairy Cattle in the Johne’s Disease Calf Accreditation Program (JDCAP) and the Revised Test and Control Program (TCP2) (PDF 52kb)
BJD: Herd Testing Programs to Control Bovine Johne's Disease (PDF 62kb)
BJD: Johne’s Disease Calf Accreditation Program (JDCAP) (PDF 45kb)
BJD: Keeping Bovine Johne's Disease out of a Herd (PDF 66kb)
BJD: Purchasing Breeding Cattle for a Beef Herd and Minimising the Risk of Buying Bovine Johne’s Disease (PDF 176kb)
BJD: Support for Owners of Bovine Johne's Disease Affected Herds (PDF 80kb)
BJD: TCP2 - A New Approach to Herd Testing for Johne’s Disease in Victorian Dairy Cattle Herds (PDF 50kb)
BJD: Understanding Bovine Johne's Disease Statuses (PDF 53kb)
BJD: Vendor Declaration for Bovine Johne's Disease (PDF 90kb)
BJD: What is Bovine Johne's Disease? (PDF 50kb)
BJD: What is CattleMAP? (PDF 65kb)
BJD: Why Control Bovine Johne's Disease? (PDF 56kb)
BJD: Zoning for Bovine Johne's Disease (PDF 79kb)
Bloat Prevention in Pasture Fed Beef Cattle
Blue-green Algal Poisoning of Stock (PDF 50kb)
Bovine Johne's Disease: Alternatives for Affected Land
Bovine Johne’s Disease: Legal Requirements? (PDF 48kb)
Bovine Virus Diarrhoea - Mucosal Disease (BVD-MD) (PDF 72kb)
Bracken Fern Poisoning of Cattle (PDF 38kb)
BSE and the Ruminant Feed Ban (PDF 55kb)
BSE (Mad Cow Disease) (PDF 55kb)
Clostridial Diseases of Livestock (PDF 47kb)
Control of Liver Fluke (PDF 85kb)
EBL: Enzootic Bovine Leucosis (PDF 69kb)
EBL: Herd Sampling for EBL Screening (PDF 73kb)
EBL: The Victorian EBL Eradication Program (PDF 48kb)
EBL: Understanding EBL Herd Statuses (PDF 51kb)
Endophyte in perennial grasses: effect on host plants and livestock
Eye Cancer in Cattle
Facial eczema of sheep and cattle
Grass Tetany (Hypomagnesemia) in Beef Cattle (PDF 59kb)
Heliotrope toxicity in sheep and cattle
Lameness in Store Weaner Cattle (PDF 204KB)
Leptospirosis (PDF 50kb)
Livestock cancers
Lumpy Jaw (PDF 54kb)
Nitrate and Nitrite Poisoning of Livestock (PDF 73kb)
NLIS - Understanding Lifetime Traceable Status
NLIS: How to Determine Lifetime Traceable Status of your Cattle
NLIS: National Livestock Identification Scheme and Carcase Feedback
NLIS: On-farm Benefits
Oestrogens in pasture, hay and silage
Ostertagia in Cattle
Perennial Ryegrass Toxicosis
Pink-Eye in Beef Cattle (PDF 103KB)
Pregnancy Toxaemia in Beef Cows (PDF 80kb)
Reading NLIS Tags Using a Handheld Reader (PDF 196kb)
Reading NLIS Tags Using a Panel Reader (PDF 136kb)
Recognising foot and mouth
Registering on the NLIS Database to Allow Access - A Step by Step Guide (PDF 146kb)
Setting up a Live Export Agent NLIS Database Account - A Step by Step Guide (PDF 145KB)
Setting up a Weighing System on Farm (PDF 141kb)
Toxins in endophyte infected perennial grasses
Warts on Cattle
What is LPA and How Does it Relate to the NLIS (PDF 71kb)
Who Supplies NLIS Equipment and Software (PDF 33kb)

Feeding & Nutrition

Feeding and Calving Pads for Cattle
Feeding options for beef cattle
Hints on Feeding Grain to Cattle
Poultry Litter, Poultry Manure and Poultry Feed in Livestock Production Systems (PDF 47kb)
Reclaimed Water – Use in Cattle Production
Self Feeding Silage (PDF 297kb)
Swill Feeding is Banned in Australia

Handling & Management

A circular cattle-handling facility for 10-50 head (PDF 51kb)
Assessing Beef Cattle for Fat Depth at the P8 Site (PDF 119kb)
Code of Accepted Farming Practice for the Welfare of Animals at Saleyards (PDF 130kb)
Code of Practice for Welfare of Farm Animals During Transportation
Condition Scoring Beef Cattle (PDF 64kb)
Early Weaning of Beef Calves (PDF 83kb)
Planning requirements for feedlots of less than 50 head capacity

Reproduction & Breeding

BREEDPLAN and The Bull Buyer (PDF 71kb)
Breedplan: BreedObject - software to balance EBVs
Breedplan: Calving ease EBVs
Breedplan: Fertility EBVs in Breedplan
BREEDPLAN: Multibreed EBVs (PDF 58kb)
BREEDPLAN: Net Feed Intake EBVs (A feed efficiency measure) (PDF45kb)
Breedplan: weighing and scanning heifers (the effects of pregnancy)
Management of Beef Breeding Cows
Management of Bulls at Mating
Pregnancy testing of beef cattle
Soundness of testicles in beef bulls

Selling & Marketing

BJD: "Beef only" - A New Way of Trading Cattle in South Eastern Australia (PDF 38kb)
Converting Hot Standard Carcase Weight Prices to Liveweight Prices (PDF 40kb)
Converting Liveweight Prices to Hot Standard Carcase Weight Prices (PDF 42kb)

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