Sheep CRC Updates, Katanning WA, 10 Feb - You're invited
It is with pleasure that the Sheep CRC and its partners and the Department of Agriculture and Food WA invite you to:
Sheep CRC Updates 2010 - Katanning
GSARI Shearing Shed,
Nyabing Rd, Katanning, WA
Wednesday 10 February, 2010
12.00 noon - 5.00 pm
(follows Yardstick Field day)
Please RSVP: 8 Feb to Ros Campbell, DAFWA Katanning Office,
Tel: 08 9821 3333 Fax 08 9821 3334
The Sheep CRC Updates will feature Sheep CRC research results and information that can be applied on farm now, as well as highlight the Sheep CRC’s new opportunities for further training and information.
With the Sheep CRC halfway through its seven-year term, we have new results, information and practices for both lamb and wool producers as well as ram breeders, no matter what breed of sheep they run. This covers:
- Optimising both reproduction and lifetime production from your ewes
- Winning the battles against the sheep industry’s two greatest problems: worms and blowflies
- Producing lamb and sheep meat for increasingly discerning consumers interested in taste and nutritional qualities, while maintaining your yield
- Wool production for comfort and colour
- Integrating the array of new and improved genetic tools into your selection program—including new ASBVs, and indexes, and applying the knowledge on the interactions between various traits, in particular between meat, wool, reproduction and disease resistance.
Key speakers include:
- Dawson Bradford, Hillcroft Farms
- Alex Ball, MLA
- Dave Pethick, Murdoch Uni,
- Brown Besier, DAFWA
- Johan Greeff, DAFWA
- Mark Ferguson, DAFWA
- Rob Egerton-Warburton, Sheep CRC Board member and WA grazier
- Ken Hart, DAFWA
- Graham Gardner, Murdoch Uni
Your invitation is attached. Please RSVP if you are likely to attend.
Please feel free to forward this to interested colleagues, friends and neighbours.
CJ Hawkins Homestead, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351