ASHEEP Projects & Activities
Current
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Carbon Neutral by 2030: Getting Started on Farm (2023 - 2027) Meat & Livestock Australia Producer Demonstration Site
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Optimising Time of Weaning Cattle (2022-2026) Meat & Livestock Australia Producer Demonstration Site
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Preventing Bull Preputial Breakdown by Vaccination (2022-2026) Meat & Livestock Australia Producer Demonstration Site
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Utilising Heifer Pre-Mating Serology to Manage BVD (2022-2026) Meat & Livestock Australia Producer Demonstration Site
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Mastering Merino Genetics (2022-2026)
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Feed365 Farm Demonstration Sites x 3 (2022-2024) - pasture productivity research project led by DPIRD
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Shearing Interval Demonstration - 6 vs 12 months (2021 - 2024)
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Mastering Merino Genetics (2022 - 2024)
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Pasture Variety Trials (2020-2024) in three rainfall / soil types across Esperance region (MLA Producer Demonstration Site)
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Participant in Supporting Shifts to Non-Mulesed Systems (2020-2024) - run by AgPro Management (MLA Producer Demonstration Site)
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4-6 field days, conferences & workshops annually (these include Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Cattle Field Days, an annual livestock conference, and workshops that have recently included working dog and stock handling schools, bull management, identifying causes of lamb deaths, understanding rhizobia and maximising sheep reproduction)
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Annual Shearing Learners School, supported by Australian Wool Innovation
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Sub-Committees of ASHEEP include the Cattle Committee, Shearing Committee and Biosecurity Committee.
Past
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SafeSheds Pilot in collaboration with WA Shearing Industry Association and AWI (2022)
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Merinolink Flock DNA Profile project supported by Merinolink, MLA, Sheep Gentics & Sheep CRC
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Fixed Time AI of Heifers in Commercial Farming Systems (MLA Producer Demonstration Site)
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Study tours throughout the Southern / South-West regions of WA, and to South Africa, New Zealand, the Middle East & Sardinia, Tasmania.
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Foot & Mouth Disease Ready project as a pilot group
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Perennial pasture variety trial site- inherited from Ron Master at DAFWA
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Putting Wormboss into Practice project- funded by AWI
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Phosphorus Efficient Pastures as a research partner with CSIRO funded by Rural R&D for Profit program, MLA, Dairy Australia & AWI
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Development of Lamb Planner & a prototype of Weaner Planner. The Lamb Planner was published in conjunction with DPIRD (available in hardcopy and via phone App)
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MLA Producer Demonstration Site Project- Self managed biosecurity group
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'Pasture Legumes in Mixed Farming Zones in WA & NSW', as a research partner with Murdoch, funded by MLA & AWI
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Grain & Graze research partner
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Legumes in Kikuyu Producer Demonstration Site funded by MLA