791-031 Dairying

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Agricultural Production Systems II.

Corequisites

Biology III.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

The objective of this subject is to enable students to:

• explain the physiological and management concepts behind efficient feeding, reproduction, and lactation of dairy cattle;

• analyse and evaluate the effects of animal, plant, soil, industry, marketing, product and physical production factors on management decisions for dairy farms;

• explain the structure and content of the Australian dairy industry, and its influence on individual producers.

The content includes: This elective will follow on from information covered in Agricultural Production Systems. The thrust of this elective is the analysis and understanding of efficient pasture based dairy systems. Within this context specific and applied aspects of industry, marketing, nutrition, reproduction, health, breeding and energy use will be addressed. Interpretation of research data and the application of research findings to management programs within dairy enterprises will be an integral component of the elective.

Assessment

Two assignments of 1000 words each (20% each); one and a half hour examination (20%); two hour examination (40%).