Meat & Livestock Australia’s revised BredWell FedWell workshop series is heading to producers on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales this month.

The popular workshop focusses on profit drivers to show how the combination of good genetics and nutrition can have a positive impact on a prodcuer’s bottom line.

To do this, BredWell FedWell helps producers apply the outcomes of the most up to date genetics and nutrition research to their businesses by looking at each stage of the annual production cycle in detail.

Sam White

The interactive, on-farm workshop on 22 March will be hosted by Sam and Kirsty White on their Angus seedestock property Bald Blair, near Guyra, and delivered by Nancy Crawshaw of Angus Australia.

A highlight of the day is that participants have the opportunity to compare bulls in the yards with and without BreedPlan Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) and consider what this might mean for their own business.

“Not only does this illustrate the power of genetics and EBVs but other activities also show the important role nutrition plays in unlocking this potential,” Sam White said.

Producers can then take what they learn and apply it directly to their own enterprises.

During the workshop, attendees also examine their own feed supply and demand and critically consider their approaches to feeding to maximise their genetic investment.

Producers will come away with skills to:

• help them develop a customised breeding plan aligned to their profit drivers;
• identify sires and select animals that help meet their breeding objective; and
• plan to feed their animals to achieve their breeding objective.

The revamped, highly visual and easy-to-follow Bred-well, Fed-well workshop has attracted an enthusiastic response from attendees around Australia.

To find out more and register, click here.