PRIME lamb producers in the state’s north heard the latest information on improving performance and profit in lamb enterprises at the Gates Performance Genetics field day on December 8.
The event, held at “East Mihi”, Uralla, included presentations and demonstrations from hosts Rick and Sam Gates, Geoff Duddy, Sheep Solutions, Leeton; Lu Hogan, Sheep CRC; Jim Meckiff, Allflex; and Brent McLeod and Nigel Brown from the Northern Tablelands LLS.
Topics included ram and ewe health, the benefits of maternal composites, ewe and lamb nutrition and marketing opportunities for prime lamb.
About 70 producers from the New England, Hunter Valley, North West and Queensland’s south east attended.