Topics to be covered include sheepmeat and wool market outlooks, supply opportunity and challenges, managing high performing ewes to wean more lambs, animal health, feed base options and business management.
A new series of one of the sheep industry’s most popular extension and adoption programs, It’s Ewe Time, will be held this month.
A joint initiative of Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), the forums are part of the flagship Making More from Sheep program.
The first of these forums will be rolled out in August on the Eyre Peninsula as part of the Making More from Sheep program, targeting producers looking to life the productivity and profitability of their sheep enterprises.
The forums will be half-day workshops at Ceduna on August 2, Kimba on August 3 and Cummins on August 4.
Further forums will be held at Wagga Wagga, NSW, on August 15, Esperance, WA on August 22, Northam, WA, on August 24 and Hamilton, Vic, on August 31, and are designed to increase producer awareness of the principles, practices and tools of sheep enterprise profitability and productivity.
They will deliver information to help producers grow 10% more wool, achieve 10% more carcase value and produce 10% more lambs per hectare.
Topics to be covered include sheepmeat and wool market outlooks, supply opportunity and challenges, managing high performing ewes to wean more lambs, animal health, feed base options and business management.
The forums will have a clear practice-change focus and will point interested producers to many of the extension and adoption tools available through MLA and AWI.
To register, visit www.wool.com/events or for more information call 1800 070 099 or the event organiser Anne Collins on 0427 486 115.