Book 1 - Beef agguide - getting started in beef includes safety, yard design, livestock identification, compulsory paperwork, breeds, crossbreeding, deciding on what to produce, herd health, routine husbandary, diseases and parasites.
Table of Contents:
- Producer safety
- Yard design
- Quality assurance
- Stock movement by road
- Stress is costly
- Breed and crossbreed
- Decide on your product
- Biosecurity and herd health
- Some terms explained.
Book 2 - Beef Ag Guide - Managing and Marketing Beef is a practical book which shows producers how to make good decisions in the beef industry.
It includes information on factors that can affect beef prices and cattle numbers, the nutritional needs of your herd and how to manage the breeding herd.
Also how to assess your product and what to consider when selecting a selling method. This book is A4 in size and full colour.
Table of Contents:
- Cattle industry overview
- Manage the breeding herd
- Pastures for the herd
- Selling methods and costs
- Other aspects of marketing
- Muscle and muscle score
- Fat assessment and fat scores
- Frame size
- Growth, maturity and carcase suitability
- Understand your product
- The killsheet
- Get the best return
- Some terms explained
- Appendix 1: Ruminants and rumination
- Appendix 2: Calculating and using DSE ratings for beef cattle
Book 3 - Beef Agskills provides a basic guide to some of the skills and practices of beef production. The book contains step-by-step instructions, diagrams and full-colour pictures. Published in 2005, Beef Agskills is 80 A4 pages.
Table of Contents:
- General safety precautions
- Animal welfare
- Quality assurance
- Working safely in yards
- Working safely with cattle in a bailhead
- Drafting and counting cattle
- Recognising and avoiding stress
- Mouthing, drenching, vaccinating and injecting sick cattle
- Heat detection in cattle
- Problems associated with calving
- Castrating calves
- Individual identification of livestock
- Dehorning calves
- Early weaning of beef cattle
- Paddock appraisal of beef cattle, and
- Safe work method statements.
- Price includes GST and postage and handling within Australia.
Price includes postage and handling within Australia.
