How you can save a pallet of blackfish with your bull buying decisions

Queensland Country Life

Cattle vet Dr Geoffry Fordyce is challenging tradition, arguing that producers can cut costs and maintain productivity by running just one well-tested, fertile bull for every 100 females.

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00:00How many pallets of black fish can you save by getting your bull power sorted out?

00:07So everyone's going to handle this in a different way, so the best advice really is don't try

00:15and get all the information from a field day or something like that, a day like today,

00:18but have a really in-depth discussion with your cattle vet and your peers and those who

00:24have experience at doing some of these things and just work out a program to sort your bull power out

00:31because there's a lot of money to be made in a lot of beef businesses by sorting it out.

00:36These sorts of issues are worldwide, not just Australia-wide.

00:42We're very... I think North Australian producers are...

00:46I actually have this philosophy that the further from Sydney you are, the smarter you are.

00:50Anyone can survive in a coastal, cosy country, but even if you're here,

00:57it means you're a lot smarter than those people in a lot of cases because you have to be.

01:03But, yeah, I just do think that the problems are quite ubiquitous and we're dealing with paradigms,

01:09the challenge of just dealing with those paradigms.

01:12Definitely, what, do you think?

01:14The answer to like it, the uncertainty is that the

01:29things that things happen are things that they can't Queenie.

01:33It seems pretty much like I'm a tanker anyway, I think that I had an agency around

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