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AWI Extension NSW Webinar - Worms are ready! Are you?
In this webinar from AWI Extension NSW, Matt Playford, Dawbutts, provides you with tools to minimise the impact worms in your flock. Take a deep dive into the worm’s lifecycle, identify their favoured conditions and utilise this knowledge to develop best-practice worm management in your farming system.
Articles That Might Interest You
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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