Sheep CRC Updates

Event date-time

Tue 23/3/10 9:00am

Host(s)

Open to all sheep and woool producers

Details

The Sheep CRC Updates will feature Sheep CRC research results and information that can be applied on farm now, as well as highlight the Sheep CRC's new opportunities for further training and information.

Information for both lamb and wool producers as well as ram breeders.

- Optimising both reproduction and lifetime production from ewes.

- Winning the battles against the sheep industry's two greatest problems, worms and blowflies.

- Producing lamb and sheep meat for increasingly discerning consumers interested in taste and nutritional qualities, while maintaining yield.

- Wool production for comfort and colour.

- Integrating the array of new and improved genetic tools into sheep selection program, including new ASBV's and indexes and applying the knowledge on the interactions between various traits, in particular between meat, wool, reproduction and disease resistance.

Where

Raffetys, 55 Nun St, BENALLA

Contact

Annette Taylor:

   0417 017 909

   (03) 5355 0531

   annette.taylor@dpi.vic.gov.au