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Lloyd Dunlop Lamb Consultant

Locality: Toowoomba, Queensland

Phone: +61 409 575 200

Address: 30 Mann st Goondiwindi 4390 Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.lloyddunlop.com.au

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25.01.2022 For my merino clients, this is Queenslands top Merino stud as measuredy by sales figures over recent decades. The Rissmann family at Yelarbon are top merino people with the best reproduction rates in merinos I have ever seen working with western Qld merino properties over 50 years in Queensland. Erol Brumpton's "Well Gully Merino Stud" is in good hands.

25.01.2022 Dear Clients, This tool will be a great benefit when and if it is developed. It could improve the accuracy of condition scoring between operators and for an individual operator between mobs, compared to manual scoring. It could calibrate your hand scoring technique to improve throughput should it be slow. It could be used more often on a sample of ewes, where thousands are joined and moved through the yards for other reasons.... Consider buying one for scanned twinners at least. Too often sheep in an accelerated joining regime have their body condition scores run down from twinning or even single lambing when not enough feed is available to follow the lactation. Don't get lazy and live on ewe body condition as a substitute for good management. You need to look after the next conception, for that is where the profits are. See more

24.01.2022 Its hard for the vested interests in the Merino Industry to make this confession / concession about the historically poor gross margin results for most Riverina, Macquarie and SA merino woolled genotypes types. Poor except for the consistently above average performances of "Dual purpose merino sheep". This is in part due to rising lamb prices during the years of their introduction but mainly because of their better reproductive rates. This includes SAMM, Dohne, Centre Plus..., and other genotypes where high lambing percentages have been pursued. My Gross margin rankings are always correlated to the highest lambing percentage in the 11 "sheep enterprises" of self replacing flocks that I regularly monitor. Not wool cut or micron, although these can make a small difference in rankings in some comparisons. If the logic of pursuing a High weaning rate as the main KPI, (this logic just happens to follow the genetic correlations of sheep) then it sends you on a logical pathway of questioning "What would happen if we bred less wool and pursued even better weaning rates of say 125% weaned per annum?" May I suggest here that man has been really good at commercially exploiting the litter rate of rabbits, chooks, turkeys, pigeons and many other animals and birds but NOT sheep or goats. Why not? Most number crunchers of sheep will tell you that sheep profitability is tied to high conception rates, not wool cuts or fining up microns because of some antagonistic genetic correlations with wool weight. If we take this statement, that profitability is tied to conception rates, to its logical conclusion then the sheep is open for exploitation with a short gestation cycle of 5 months which allows 2 joinings per year, potentially doubling conception rates per annum or per lifetime. "Why has this not happened?" AND if possible "What needs to change to make it happen to get weaning percentages over 200% per annum?" "Are there ways of lifting this objective to 300% pa?" If this sounds incredible to you as it does to most then we can go back to basics and ask "Are there ways open to you (assuming nutrition is not limiting) to lift conception rates on singly joined ewes per annum above 125%? See more

22.01.2022 This is what we have been looking for. It wont handle straw >2" length so for paddock supplements only in my view. Not for feedlot where chop length of straw is critical for rumination to prevent lactic acidosis in high grain rations. A belt feeder will achieve this in a feedlot. Great innovation.

22.01.2022 Congratulations to the progenitor of the AW breed Alan Baron for this composite concept now become reality. Also to client Adrian Bell on whose property Allambie Mendooran NSW where the original 4 breeds were stationed, making the project possible. If you have an AW ram appetite at slightly lower prices, you can get rams from Clients Bob and Scott Baker "Doonkami" Boggabilla NSW. Annual orders will give you greater assurance of supply 1 or 3 years out. Daughter Studs lik...e forward orders, as it gives them an assurance to increase their Stud ewe flocks. If you would like F3+ AW type ewes, unclassified, you can get these from Client Bob Back "Kingsborough" at Aramac Qld at near market prices for ewes, by the truck load (500+), as Bob's flock was the recipient of the early generation 2 cross sires that made up the 4 way composite breed you see at Tattykeel (ie Poll Dorset, Texel, White Dorper, and Van Rooy). Bob's rams are now long retired, leaving Bob with the oldest and probably still the largest (>10K ewes) AW type, commercial flock in Australia. Pierre Bouyere would be appalled they didn't wash the rams prior to sale. See more

20.01.2022 Many clients are asking about abattoir proposals close to the northern Sheep and goat flocks. With Bourke goat works "temporally closed", Charleville Goat and sheep works active at near full capacity the proposals to open new works creates great interest. This excellent article will bring you up to date.

20.01.2022 A Note for Northern Producers on summer rain grown perennials. Matching numbers to the grass available 2020. For those of you who are at maximum numbers of ewes this might be a good time to sell numbers down as we approach winter and the time of historically the highest prices of the year. June AuctionsPlus is abuzz with high prices for white PTIL meat sheep with one lot of Saunders Australian White ewes selling for $311 at Longreach. Lamb prices are firm and goats are firm ...Continue reading

16.01.2022 Client Adrian Bell has one of the best Red Boer Studs in Australia, the result of early and multiple embryo imports going back 30 years ago by Alan Baron. You can call ADRIAN 0438210745.

15.01.2022 This move by TFI could be contrary to the momentum created by the recent January 2020 Phase 1 US FTA with China in which, due to Trump pressure, HGPs in beef may be allowed into China in future within certain MRL limits. If so, Australian beef producers with HGPs eg Feedlotters cannot be denied entry under WTO rules according to Ken Wilcox, a leading Qld Beef commentator. He says "Now all of a sudden the reason for Australia giving up most of its stake in EU HQGF market (E... See More MAJOR red meat exporter Thomas Foods International will undertake roadshows throughout South Australia next month in the first step to increase its national throughput of assured sheep meat and beef...Read More

14.01.2022 I'm getting quoted nationally. The only correction I would make is that I didn't say wool is now "a minor source of income" for Merino Flocks. "Wool is now a by product of meat" measured as Account Sheep sales v Wool sales. Their salvation is to be found in higher lamb markings. On this score the merino is an unexploited animal. Merino Producers around Goondiwindi can get up to 150% regularly. Why cant New South Welshmen? Figures above 130% will save many smaller enter...prises. Flocks above 7000 sheep will be little affected by this wool downturn which is likely to last beyond 2022. Kirsten Frost in her article in QCL June 11. P67 Stockpile fears grow.., quotes Nutrien Wool Manager David Hart as saying from their own Company figures we are guessing there are over 200,000 bales (of wool) on hold out there nationally. The wool market is thin enough in volume now for this amount to be a problem for the long term future. What are your thoughts? See more

13.01.2022 Prospects of good lamb and sheep prices are forecast by MLA in this story. Good signs for those with rain who can lift numbers and production. The GFC 2011 had no effect on lamb prices and despite a looming Global depression as a result of Covid 19 it seems lamb and mutton may weather this storm well too. I always like the way MLA charts finish with an upward flourish in their projected forecasts.

12.01.2022 To clients and Non clients with more than 200 does, A scanning subsidy.

11.01.2022 Dog and Cat research using computer diagnostics of parasite eggs by Zoetis on the day of sample receival could benefit sheep clinicians in the future with Barbers pole worm (Haemonchus spp) and Black scour worm (Trichostongylus) differentiation. That is, it takes one day to do a count of eggs (infestation rate) but up to 10 days to receive a report on larval differentiation from the lab to help decide which drench to use. The delay is due to the time it takes to hatch the ...eggs and count the larvae where, at the moment, the first diffentiation is possible. This delay compromises timely treatments of sheep with anthelmintics and slows Resistance tests. This application may take some time as sheep parasite work is not as valuable to Vets as Cat and Dog diagnoses. We wait, while the worms bite, in hope, for a resolution, on Australian screens. See more

10.01.2022 This is not a surprising result given the ambitious objective kills projected by the proponents of 6000 goats killed per day. I wrote to the Bourke Council when the proposal was put forth a couple of years ago, offering my services and some objections to their ambitious proposal at the time based on a low domestic goat supply, an unknown feral flock numbers, a history of abattoir failures at Bourke and the competition offered by a debt free Charleville works. Not surprising...ly I did not receive a reply. If the works could become debt free, it could offer a more central position for an abattoir than Charleville. More likely is the reversion to, and repetition of, what I call the abattoir cycle of sheep , cattle and goat works seen so often across Australia when you do a study of the failed works across the country. Cite Goondiwindi, St George, Guyra, Toowoomba, Churchill (Ipswich), Bohle (Townsville), Rockhampton, as commercial examples. Council and State owned works failures offer a slightly different and delayed response due to public subsidies for too long but eventually go the same way. This is not to say Bourke will not survive this difficulty but more likely is a closure, a sell off, a remodelling and increased debt a slow start up and a third cycle after creditors foreclose at the 2 year mark of poor performances. Goondiwindi went through 3 cycles before a permanent closure. Part of the solution is for it to diversify into sheep and lambs, which the artlcie hints has begun, but this will be thwarted by the current drought compromising flock rebuilds. We wait with anticipation for the next chapter.

10.01.2022 What works for Merinos works even better for meat sheep when they are accelerated lambed. Critical to the exercise is that mothers be supplemented before weaning so weaned lambs go onto a supplement without setback as needed and ewes can recover condition scores. I am a very strong advocate of weaning lambs early regardless of season.

09.01.2022 This is about the third posting on Loading ramps I have made, but reinforces what has gone before . That as you, my clients, have an average of 4500 ewes, justification for this expense is financially acceptable. Prime lamb Producers need loading ramps of good design to allow fast, seem less, welfare orientated loading of their main primary product in an unblemished, unstressed manner as is possible. Your income indirectly depends upon it. A and B Double Trucks with a ca...pacity of 450 - 600 lambs are the basic volume "unit of trade" in the Processing and transport industry which has been standardized for decades. It is only logical that ramps should standardize to comply with this trade. Not only should they comply with trucks but also the yards that feed them. Smaller clients below 1000 ewes will have obvious limitations justifying top model expenditure. However smaller options are available than the 8m Proway one shown in this article eg 3.3m ramps Vs 8m ramps. See more

05.01.2022 The most economically devastating disease of Meat sheep. Eliminate it at all costs.

04.01.2022 This invention fills a gap. We now need Mr Walters to invent one for ringlock fencing. Has this been done yet?

04.01.2022 Carbon Farming? I have been a long time advocate of spelling country under a "Liberty" Biblical sabbatical regime which can be adapted to conform to the books requirements for debt repayment (Lev 25 & 26). Further, to redeem the rests foregone through overuse by the previous and current ownership. Cell grazing or Techno graze are ways that allows a very rapid restoration of soil biota and plant succession and the rests can most often be repaid in your lifetime, so you can l...Continue reading

03.01.2022 The corrections in the wool market, Lamb Market and Stock Markets (with mutton relatively steady), emphasises the need for improved reproduction rates in Merino to be consistently above 100% (cf national average around 75%) to keep Sheep and lamb sales the major source of income in any sheep enterprise. If you are a wool Producer have you done the sums to aportion your wool and sheep sales to see which one is dominant? You may be surprised if you haven't.

03.01.2022 I'm often asked what is the ideal mob size for lambing ewes. This article goes a long way to answer the question by saying the fewer ewes the better. It comes down to how small you can economically fence and work your paddocks. The trade off will vary for High rainfall to Pastoral districts. The use of temporary electric fencing will be helpful in siting later permanent fencing and could be taken up to return mobs to a larger size in set stock paddocks. What have you found that works?