All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Shift towards non-mulesed sheep at LIT Farm Ridgefield LIT Farm Ridgefield demonstrates shift to non-mulesed sheep 29/03/2021 | 2 MINS Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Farm Ridgefield is helping blaze the trail to end the practice of mulesing sheep. The farm is one of six Meat & Livestock Australia Producer Demonstration Sites for a four-year project run by LIT alumni Georgia Reid-Smith and Ed Riggall of AgPro Management. LIT Emeritus Professor Graeme Martin said the project would demonstrate the impact of shifting to non-mules enterprises ΓÇô on management and measures of production ΓÇô to more than 100 producers and the wider industry. ΓÇ£At each site, we will measure weaner weight, wool value, animal price, and husbandry costs, thus enabling a benefit-cost assessment of the financial outcome compared to traditional management, while also capturing qualitative data to analyse the social impact and changes required to management,ΓÇ¥ Ms Reid-Smith said. ΓÇ£Recognising the inevitability of the technique being banned, LIT Farm Ridgefie
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Shift towards non-mulesed sheep at LIT Farm Ridgefield LIT Farm Ridgefield demonstrates shift to non-mulesed sheep 29/03/2021 | 2 MINS Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Farm Ridgefield is helping blaze the trail to end the practice of mulesing sheep.
The farm is one of six Meat & Livestock Australia Producer Demonstration Sites for a four-year project run by LIT alumni Georgia Reid-Smith and Ed Riggall of AgPro Management.
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LIT Emeritus Professor Graeme Martin said the project would demonstrate the impact of shifting to non-mules enterprises ΓÇô on management and measures of production ΓÇô to more than 100 producers and the wider industry.
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ΓÇ£At each site, we will measure weaner weight, wool value, animal price, and husbandry costs, thus enabling a benefit-cost assessment of the financial outcome compared to traditional management, while also capturing qualitative data to analyse the social impact and changes required to management,ΓÇ¥ Ms Reid-Smith said.
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ΓÇ£Recognising the inevitability of the technique being banned, LIT Farm Ridgefie
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