Resources and useful links
Thrive Agri Services networks with industry leaders to ensure our clients have access to the most appropriate, timely and accurate advice for your business. If you have any questions on the following links provided here, please feel free to contact Thrive Agri Services for support.
Accelerated lambing
A review of accelerated lambing can be found here.
The simulation and economic modelling of maternal efficiency in a sheep enterprise
A copy of Andrew’s PhD thesis can be found here.
Precision lambing
Listen to Andrew and Tim Leeming discussing Precision Lambing.
Industry Bodies
Production Tools
Feedtest Seasonal Averages - check out the seasonal nutritional averages for supplementary feed tests
Grazfeed - CSIRO based ruminant nutrition performance program. Thrive Agri Services offers training for businesses seeking to use Grazfeed for their feed budgeting requirements .
MLA Tools and Calculators - Cost of Production calculators and more
Lifetime Wool - the science behind Lifetime Ewe Management
Sheep Explorer & Cattle Explorer - background spreadsheets for the Grazfeed program. For those that love and enjoy animal physiology and performance. Advanced skills needed.
Making more from sheep - links to the manual
More beef from pastures - links to the manual
Animal Welfare & Biosecuirty
Victorian farmers Federation fact sheets - Animal Welfare and Biosecurity
Weather & Climate
Legislation and Compliance
Legal information for Victorian Landholders
Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety
NLIS EID: Agriculture Victoria – NLIS Tag Room
Emotional and Social Wellbeing Support for Farming Families
National Centre for Farmer Health
Useful subscriptions:
If you’re not already subscribed to the following sites, have a look sign-up for free industry updates straight into your inbox.
Beef and Sheep Networks – Newsflash Newsletter
Paraboss - a suite of tools developed by the Sheep CRC that links to Flyboss, Liceboss & Wormboss websites for controlling parasites, flies, lice and worms in your sheep enterprise
Agriculture Victoria Newsletters
