For Indonesia, Australia has become a reliable source of large volumes of disease-free livestock that thrive in a similar tropical environment. Among the greatest challenges currently confronting the industry are; price and supply issues, largely due to prolonged drought and devastating floods, especially in northern...
From trimming a ram’s horns to enjoying a cold beer after a busy day of mustering cattle — young female farmers are using social media to give the world a glimpse of WA’s first-class farming practices. Camille Camp, head stockwoman on her family’s Kalyeeda Station, started...
Emily Stretch who participated in WA's Livestock Leaders workshop last year recently had the chance to speak to the Countryman about her family's mixed cropping and Meruni enterprise in Wandoora Kojonup. The family works hard to produce a “sustainable” non-mulesed woolclip by paying close attention to...
LIVEXchange 2021, the livestock export industry's national conference will be held in Darwin on 10-11 November with a new theme launched each year. The theme for 2021 is From here to there together: strengthening our foundations and creating connections. LiveCorp and The Australian Livestock Exporters' Council...
Flexible online delivery With COVID-19 restrictions in place, the NSW workshop was 100 per cent virtual. Participants spent three days online learning from our star presenters Deanna Lush, Co-Founder of AgCommunicators, Heidi Wright, Founder and Director of Wright Social, Charlotte Whelan, Wright Social and James Lush,...
Temperatures in Northern Australia soar in the summer (wet season), meaning people and animals alike have to adapt. Two of the dominant cattle breeds in these parts are the Brahman and Droughtmaster. Both of these breeds can withstand the humidity, largely due to their origins tracing back...
The Livestock Collective are proving more than capable of adapting to a COVID-19 world as the fourth instalment of the national leadership series Livestock Leaders has been postponed. The workshop due to be held in Wagga Wagga, NSW last month was put on hold when new...
The Livestock Collective are excited to be hosting our fourth Livestock Leaders workshop for the year. The next one will be held in NSW on the 23rd & 24th November 2020. Livestock Leaders is a professional development workshop aimed at building capacity of current supply...
Congratulations are in order for Livestock Leaders alumni, Patrick Coole who has recently received the prestigious young live exporters award. Mr Coole grew up on cattle stations in the Kimberley and started his career in livestock vessels as a stock person. Currently the ESCAS manager for Halleen...
Each person has their own unique story to tell and The Livestock Collective is providing the right tools for future leaders of the livestock industry to do just that by bringing its next leadership workshop to Adelaide on the 21 and 22 October, 2020. A joint...