PDF-MAY 2007 PRIMEFACT 608 (REPLACES AGNOTE ET-11) UNDERSTANDING WEATHER

Understanding weather 150 fronts troughs and ridges Paul Carberry Advisory Officer Climatology Extensive Industries Development Tamworth Fronts A front is the boundary between two air masses. 52 Smallscale poultry keeping feeding Greg Poole Former Livestock Officer Poultry Products Nutrients Fowls have a simple digestive tract like humans and therefore eat similar food such as cereals and meat Their food is composed of a number of nutrie It is due to the equatorial regions moving faster than the polar regions as the earth rotates The net result of the Coriolis force is that in the outhern hemisphere winds around low pressure systems or cyclones move clockwise and winds around high p Scoring sheep for fleece rot William Murray Project Officer, e-Sheep, Rural Innovation, Trangie Dr Suzanne Mortimer Livestock Research Officer, Rural Innovation, Trangie Flystrike is a major probl Liver fluke disease in sheep and cattle Dr Joseph C. Boray Former Principal Research Scientist (Parasitology) Dr GW HutchinsonStephen Love Nationally, up to 40 million sheep and 6 million cattle graze Former Livestock Research Officer A severe frost late in the growing season may drastically reduce yield and quality of cereal crops. Frost-damaged crops, unsuitable for human consumption, are downgr How pasture characteristics influence sheep production Alan Bell Former Technical Specialist (Temperate Grazing Phil Graham Livestock Officer, Extensive Industries Development, Yass Col Langford Pasture assessment and livestock production Alan Bell Former Technical Specialist (Temperate Grazing This Primefact was compiled in part from the PROGRAZE Doug Somerville Technical Specialist Bees, Agricultural Production 2 PRIMEFACT 998, WINTERING BEES If anything is amiss in the hive, or you are unsure of what to look for, then contact or send a s Bloat Dr Sarah Robson Regional Animal Health Leader, Animal & Plant Biosecurity, Wagga Wagga What is bloat? Bloat is a risk when animals are grazing young, lush pasture, particularly if the pasture Dung beetles – working for you Sally Spence Technical Specialist Farm Product Integrity, Animal & Plant Biosecurity, Orange Introduction By rapidly burying dung pads, dung beetles reduce fly b Buffalo flies and their control Sally Spence Technical Specialist, Farm Product Integrity, Animal & Plant Biosecurity, Orange Always read the label Users of agricultural (or veterinary) chemical p Muscle scoring beef cattle Bill McKiernan Research Leader Animal Production, Production Introduction the most valuable part of the carcase. To help identify the red meat content in cattle, a method Pastures for horses Hugh Allan Former District Agronomist Rod Hoare Former State Equine Veterinary Officer Carol Rose District Agronomist, Extensive Industries Development, Kempsey Introduction Scarab grubs in northern tableland pastures G.J. Goodyer Former Entomologist Dr Adrian Nicholas Entomologist, Health Science, Strategic Alliances & Evaluation, Tamworth The underground larval stag