The Australian Lot Feeders’ Association has announced its SmartBeef Conference will be held at Dalby Events Centre in Dalby, Queensland on 19-21 October 2021.
All five steer categories jumped last week, with the lower clearance rate, at 64%, for the less than 200kg steers primarily due to passed in dairy influenced lines out of Victoria.
Beef industry representatives from around Australia have come together in Canberra for Cattle Council of Australia’s first Pilot Policy Council meeting.
Angus Australia is heading up to Beef Australia 2021, and this year will be hosting a seminar for beef producers, “The Angus Influence – from Performance to Profit”, taking place on Tuesday May 4.
Lot feeders can now see the BunkBot at work in a commercial setting with Mort & Co’s Pinegrove Feedlot near Millmerran, Queensland, set to host on-site demonstrations of the technology.
Quantifying the animal welfare and production benefits of shade structures in southern feedlots is the focus of a new research project this summer, funded by Meat & Livestock Australia.