Producers weigh up earlier calving to rebuild faster

Shan Goodwin
Updated May 26 2020 - 11:21am, first published 11:08am
REBUILD: Cattle producers are looking at all avenues to build up numbers, including calving heifers earlier. Photo: Lucy Kinbacher
REBUILD: Cattle producers are looking at all avenues to build up numbers, including calving heifers earlier. Photo: Lucy Kinbacher

CALVING heifers a year earlier, as two-year-olds, is being weighed up by cattle producers looking to ramp up reproductive rates to rebuild herds.

Shan Goodwin

Shan Goodwin

National Agriculture Writer - Beef

Shan Goodwin steers ACM’s national coverage of the beef industry. Shan has worked as a journalist for 30 years, the majority of that with agricultural publications. She spent many years as The Land’s North Coast reporter and has visited beef properties and stations throughout the country and overseas. She treats all breeds equally. Contact 0427686187. E: s.goodwin@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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