792-209 Enterprise Management - Grazing

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Animal Production.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

The objective of this subject is to enable students to develop management programs for beef cattle production, prime lamb production and wool production from a self replacing flock. Specifically they will be able to:

• explain the structure and function of the various Australian grazing industry organisations;

• appreciate the range of production alternatives in the Australian grazing industry and the factors which influence these alternatives;

• apply their understanding of the factors which underline the management of grazing enterprises to practical situations;

• analyse and evaluate biological, industry, marketing, and physical production functions as factors affecting management decisions in the Australian grazing industry;

• utilise their understanding of the above in making competent practical management decisions in the grazing industry.

The content includes: environmental restrictions on animal production systems; strategic health programs; feed sources, preparation and quality; feeding and supplementary feeding strategies for specific classes of livestock; meeting market specifications through breeding, feeding and management; product quality and markets; visual selection and evaluation of grazing animals; breeds and strains of livestock and their relative contributions to production systems; integrating single enterprises into whole farm strategies.

Assessment

Two assignments of 1500 words (30% each); two hour exam (40%).