Farm Management

• Farm management research helps improve profitability and sustainability.

• Looking at new ways to manage crops, pastures and livestock to maintain high production, reduce costs and ensure the future environmental health of the land.

• Research

• Farm Management Systems

• Impact of Climate Change

• Animal Production, Health and Welfare

• Managing Pests and Diseases

• Storage

• Gene Technology

Managing farms on a sustainable basis while making a profit is one of the biggest challenges facing agriculture, yet it is one of the most important if our farms are going to continue to provide food and fibre into the future.

Research

• conduct farming research, working with farming groups and individual producers to trial and evaluate new ideas and techniques.
• working with farmers to trial new ideas and techniques.

Many issues face farmers including:

• Drought.

• Salinity.

• Pests and diseases.

• Floods
  

Our research aims to reduce the effects of these issues by developing more resilient and sustainable management techniques, and preventative technologies.

For example, by looking underground at root and soil interactions we are broadening our understanding of these important ecological relationships that occur on farms.

Farm Management Systems

We are developing new farming systems to:

• Improve livestock and overall farm productivity.

• Help farmers better monitor their livestock and farm assets.

• Support a healthy natural environment.

We are also developing:

• Decision support tools and other technologies to help farmers with the economic and social decisions that affect farm management.

• Advanced statistical methods to analyse data generated during agricultural research.

Impact of Climate Change

• reducing the implications of climate change on farms, and how to reduce its negative effects.

Animal Production, Health and Welfare

research is:

• Improving animal production and quality.

• Investigating novel products from livestock.

• Identifying methods of improving animal health and welfare.

Managing Pests and Diseases

improving the management of risks posed by animal diseases both to trade and production, through:

• Diagnostic services.

• Enhanced surveillance.

• The capability to respond to the risks and needs posed by emerging and exotic animal diseases.

Storage

Stored Grain Research, with industrial partners, as the largest stored products research group and is providing significant benefits to growers in grain storage technologies.

Gene Technology

Our research involves the use of gene technology to improve the health and production of crop and livestock industries.

REFERENCES:

1. CSIRO

What are factors one should consider when relocating exotic breeds. I know for one you would want to know what breed the exotic is. Another thing you would like to know is the breed's envoronmetal tolerance limits. I thnk this would include stuff like the breed's respiration rate you know. Like if its already panting before the environment gets to hot then how would it cope if it got even hotter?

Another thing is the level of environmental modification you would like to input, like if this would be ultimately paid for by the output/products.

This is what i can think off off the top of my head and would be interested in what others think. I am going to go through livestock production systems and see if i can find more information relating to this.

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