Planning to handle drought
General information
Drought strategies
- Addressing the trigger points in a drought
- Agistment guidelines
- Auditing farm resources (pasture, feeds, water, livestock condition)
- Drought strategies for the livestock producer
- Leasing land - calculating a rental
- Productivity after the drought
- Water requirements for sheep and cattle
Climate forecasting
- Assessing current pasture and vegetation conditions
- Assessing future enterprise risk - the medium-term climate outlook
- Assessing future enterprise risk - the short-term climate outlook
- Bureau of Meteorology (www.bom.gov.au)
- Drought advance and retreat in NSW - 1972 to current
- Management of climate variability
- Reviewing historical climate information
- The Long Paddock: climate management information (www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au)
- The role of climate science in drought management
Financial considerations in drought
- Cattle transport costs - calculator
- Cattle transport costs - calculator instructions
- Drought planning
- Feed cost calculator
- Feed cost calculator instructions
- Financial considerations of agisting stock in drought
- Financial considerations of feeding cattle in drought
- Financial considerations of leasing land for your stock in drought
- Financial considerations of selling stock in drought
- Financial issues for the dairy farm in a drought
- Prompts to assess your financial situation in drought
- Sheep transport costs - calculator
- Sheep transport costs - calculator instructions
- Sources of market information
- Tax issues for livestock producers during and after drought
- Tax treatment of forced livestock sales due to pasture and fodder loss