Chickens can be a great asset to any small landholding. They provide eggs, produce fertiliser, control insects and weeds, eat kitchen scraps and loosen soil while scratching.
This edition includes articles on whether to shear or not shear in winter, the rise in popularity of ASBVs, an overview of the Merino lifetime productivity project and whether 'aunts' interfere in...
Agistment describes the movement of livestock from a property where there is little feed or water to another property where there are adequate supplies.
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development’s (DPIRD) Statistical Seasonal Forecast (SSF) system is indicating 60-80% chance of exceeding median rainfall for autumn, March to May...
The WA Livestock Disease Outlook provides information about recent livestock disease cases in Western Australia as well as diseases likely to occur in the next month. Australia’s ability...
The WA Livestock Disease Outlook provides information about recent livestock disease cases in Western Australia as well as diseases likely to occur in the next month. Australia’s ability...
A series of five live and interactive webinars focusing on financially intelligent business decision making for sheep within mixed farming enterprises (delivered weekly).
In this edition of the SIBI newsletter, read about the Katanning Research Facility's open day, our sheep meat value chain training program, the increase in rams being sold with ASBVs, a case study...
Registered seed dressing or in-furrow fungicides are applied prophylactically to address disease risk, they can delay, reduce or eliminate disease resulting in significant yield responses however i
New leadership for state biosecurity Growing the regional economy Grants available to provide connectivity to WA farming businesses Play a part in the biosecurity of WA’s...
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development’s (DPIRD) Statistical Seasonal Forecast (SSF) system is indicating a neutral (40-60%) chance of exceeding median rainfall for February...
Why DPIRD carries out surveillance for livestock disease: Australia’s access to markets for livestock and livestock products depends on evidence from our surveillance systems that...
The WA Livestock Disease Outlook provides information about recent livestock disease cases in Western Australia as well as diseases likely to occur in the next month. Australia’s ability...
