The Drafting Gate

In this episode of The Drafting Gate, Renee is joined by Claire Payne, a research scientist at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.  Renee and Claire discuss eating quality in lamb markets and how the new DEXA machine at Katanning is set to provide more accurate lean meat yield analysis for lamb producers.

Claire also mentions the SheepLinks - Objective Carcase Measurement Feedback project and the Profitable Grazing Systems programme. 

Our previous episode recorded at the Katanning Research Station was Hot Off the Ag Tech Press, featuring Research Officer John Paul 'JP' Collins.

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In this episode of The Drafting Gate, Renee interviews Greg Tilbrook, Wool Manager at Australian Wool Network in Bibra Lake. Renee and Greg, discuss the 2022 wool market, explore the wool supply chain and global issues which affect it and see how producers and brokers use AWI's online wool selling platform WoolQ.

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Western Australia was in a state of chaos on 6th February, 2022.Fire and emergency services were not only dealing with previous bushfire incidents in Denmark and Bridgetown, but two huge blazes ignited in the Corrigin and Shackleton areas and east of Narrogin which left a trail of devastation across these farming communities. Angus Armstrong farms at Noman's Lake. More than half of his property was severely impacted by the Narrogin bushfire which in total burned through 18 000 ha of farm and bushland.

If you need post fire recovery resources please look at AWI's Bushfire Recovery Information. If you need any mental health resources, please seek help from these agencies listed below.

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Myth busted - you can have a fat sheep which also cuts a lot of wool. How do we know this? Well, from the Genetic Evaluation: Productivity, Efficiency and Profitability (GEPEP) project of course! GEPEP is an add on trial to the Merino Lifetime Productivity project and evaluates the per hectare profitability of different sires based on feed conversion and fat depth.

To explain more, The Sheep's Back spoke to GEPEP researchers Dr Andrew Thompson and Sarah Blumer. You can see previous GEPEP presentations on The Sheep's Back website.

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In 2015, Australian Wool Innovation and the Australian Merino Sire Evaluation Association teamed up to create the Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP) project. Spanning 10 years and five sites across Australia, this is the largest sheep experiment in the country. It is designed to capture the lifetime performance of Merino ewes to help better understand how current selection methods best predict lifetime productivity.

In this episode of The Drafting Gate, Dr Bronwyn Clarke, site manager of MLP Pingelly in Western Australia, discusses some of the unique findings to come from MLP. You can read the Pingelly MLP drop results here and see Bronwyn's previous presentations on The Sheep's Back website.

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