eEdition of The Land Ausmectin Southern Beef Week 2019 July 29 - August 4

Client outcomes are the best indicator of stud performance for Poll Merino stud breeders Stephen and Carol Huggins.

Animal comfort and operator safety are key to great numbers at the sale yard, and while some may long for the good old days, today's cattle handling equipment has improved safety and efficiency.

With 2020 so far providing great soil moisture profiles in many areas, producers are looking to take advantage of strong pastures and ideal growing conditions.

Clipex fencing and stockyards are designed to provide the most advanced 'safe animal handling' features with ease to increase user and livestock safety, according to a company spokesman.

M&M Stockyards and Steel Fabrications began in 1990, and has been manufacturing quality sheep and cattle stockyards ever since. What began as an Australian family-owned business, will continue to be locally owned and operated, supporting local businesses and employing five Manilla locals from farming backgrounds.

Often the answer to being smarter is keeping it simple. This is the principle that Wayne Coffey followed when designing the Combi Clamp Sheep Handler 20 years ago.

For the past 50 years, intensive agriculture has seen roots as a thing to anchor the plant into the ground, focusing on supplying soluble, plant available forms of major nutrients which over the years have altered the indigenous biota in bulk soil.

Shaun Breen is based at Chepstowe, VIC, and is a qualified fitter and turner who worked full time for Goldacres in Ballarat before beginning his own spray contracting business.

The performance of grain crops approximately six weeks after planting is a great opportunity to use plant development to assess soils for compaction or acidic band issues.