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AWI Extension NSW Webinar - Unpacking wool performance and measuring your flock's productivity
In the midst of industry speculation, and seasonal conditions, objective insights into wool enterprise performance are essential. In this webinar from AWI Extension NSW, Jess Paton, Agrista, takes a clear, evidence-based look at how wool enterprises are really performing, using recent Agrista benchmarking data. The session unpacks what the numbers are telling us, what is driving enterprise performance, and what this means for individual businesses. Jess also shares insights into the strengths and challenges of managing a wool enterprise, as well as take a look at how flock structure is changing. The aim of this webinar is to provide producers with clear, actionable steps to better understand their own enterprise performance and feel empowered to calculate key performance metrics within their own business.
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Measurement, focus and fibre diameter: how Will and Nina Bennett are keeping wool in their enterprise mix
At a time when many producers are reassessing the role of wool in their business, Tasmanian woolgrowers Will and Nina Bennett have taken a different path. Rather than stepping away from wool, the Bennett family made a deliberate decision to stay in the industry but changed how they managed it.
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Preparing your pregnant ewes for success
Getting ewe nutrition right during pregnancy is one of the most powerful ways to lift lamb survival and wool production. This article outlines practical targets for ewe condition scoring, managing nutrition and scanning for multiples, along with strategies to manage metabolic disease risk during late pregnancy and early lactation.
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Production hypocalcaemia: when high-performing ewes run short of calcium
Hypocalcaemia is often thought of as a ‘late-pregnancy problem’ triggered by yarding, transport, shearing, sudden feed changes, crutching or grain feeding without enough limestone for six weeks or more. But that is only part of the story...
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