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Beef cattle

Beef cattle husbandry

Cattle on truck

General management

  • Castrating calves
  • Dehorning cattle
  • Economic advantages of better management of your beef breeding herd
  • Handling Bos indicus cattle
  • Handling cattle
  • Responsible, sustainable beef production: Issues facing today's beef producer
  • Selecting and managing beef heifers
  • Striking the balance
  • Weaning beef calves

Hormonal growth promotants

  • HGP farm records proforma  38.8 KB
  • HGP Select - interactive spreadsheet tool
  • HGPs - questions & answers
  • Hormonal growth promotants available in NSW
  • Implanting hormonal growth promotants
  • Requirements for hormonal growth promotant purchasers in NSW
  • Understanding hormonal growth promotants
  • Using hormonal growth promotants in NSW beef production

Transporting cattle

  • Cattle transport costs - calculator 
  • Tips for transporting cattle and sheep

From the bookshop

  • Calf rearing (video) 
  • Calf rearing - a practical guide (book) 
  • Training and working dogs - for quiet confident control of stock 
  • Feeding and nutrition
  • Health and disease
  • Breeding and selection
  • Yards and equipment
  • Husbandry
  • Cattle appraisal
  • Welfare
  • Market information
  • Business management
  • Research
  • Contacts
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