Livestock & animals

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development supply chain support, research and development and rigorous biosecurity systems underpin the economic success of Western Australia’s livestock industries. In 2011/12, the WA livestock industries contributed 26% of the state’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry production, worth approximately $2 billion at the farm gate.

WA is a world leader in live exports, super fine wool production and dryland sheep and grain systems. Both cattle and sheep systems are focused on export markets to Asia and the Middle East. WA also has innovative, world-class integrated dairy and pork industries meeting local and South East Asian demand for safe, fresh milk and pork. The WA poultry industry is growing strongly as a result of increasing domestic consumption.

Global demand for high-quality, safe animal protein and products produced according to high animal welfare standards will continue to rise in coming years. Increasingly DAFWA will partner with industry -- locally, nationally and internationally -- in transformational business projects to capitalise on this demand.

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Articles

Dairy feedbase: Flexible Feeding Systems project

24 January 2014

Flexible Feeding Systems was a research project looking at how to best integrate supplementary concentrates into a dairy feeding system.
The Sheep Alliance of Western Australia (previously the Sheep Industry Leadership Council)

13 November 2014

The Sheep Industry Leadership Council (SILC) was formed by the Western Australian (WA) state government in 2011 with a charter of providing strategy and leadership for the sheep industry.
Sheep parasites

9 December 2013

The impact of parasites on sheep can range from being virtually undetectable, through to obvious clinical signs or even death.
Sheep worm control in Western Australia

5 December 2013

Gastro-intestinal worm infections in sheep are a major cause of lost productivity to the Western Australian (WA) sheep industry and control has become more complex due to widespread drench resistan
Adoption of genetic technologies for sheep

11 September 2017

The adoption of genetic technologies activity is part of the Sheep Industry Business Innovation project and is currently providing a range of tools that will help sheep producers introduce genetic
Technology on tour: sheep tour to Victoria

7 September 2017

Three thousand pregnant ewes on a three hectare feedlot, 180% lambing from precision vision management, ‘no hounds more pounds’ and single-use vehicles were but a snapshot of some of the innovative
Careers in food and fibre

24 October 2013

The Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia supports the growth of Western Australia’s agrifood sector in four key areas: markets, productivity, profitability and people.
Teaching resources

30 October 2013

DAFWA supports the growth of WA’s agrifood sector in four key areas: markets, productivity, profitability and people.
Primary education resources

30 October 2013

The Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia supports the growth of Western Australia’s agrifood sector in four key areas: markets, productivity, profitability and people.
Pathways to a career in food and fibre

29 October 2013

The Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia supports the growth of Western Australia’s agrifood sector in four key areas: markets, productivity, profitability and people.