17/02/2025
🐑🐑🐑 PREGNANCY SCANNING TWO-PART WEBINAR SERIES 🐑🐑🐑
The latest information from AWI and MLA states that:
"Pregnancy scanning and differential management has been shown to have a return on investment of $5.55 per ewe scanned for the sheep meat and wool industries."
We’re keen to dive a bit deeper into this space, so we’re teaming up with our sister AWI Extension network in Qld, Sheep to bring you a two-part webinar series to delve into the finer details, latest information, recommendations and findings from this body of work regarding pregnancy scanning, and how producers can capture gains in productivity.
Webinar 1️⃣ – Pregnancy scanning – an ultra-sound investment
📆 Thursday, 27 February 2025
⏰ 1:00 pm AEDT
👩🏫 Presenter – Dr Sue Hatcher, Makin Outcomes
Sue will:
✅ Discuss the latest findings of the scanning project and how they apply to today’s sheep businesses
✅ Explore the value of scanning, and demonstrate the latest benefit cost analysis
✅ Highlight management and selection decisions that can be made with scanning results
✅ Discuss the details of the recently released scanning resources
Webinar 2️⃣ – I have scanning data – now what? 🤔
📆 Thursday, 6 March 2025
⏰ 1:00 pm AEDT
👨🏫 Presenter – Josh Cousins, Cousins Merino Services
Josh will:
✅ Discuss how to best prepare your sheep for preg scanning to enable optimum information capture (think accuracy, smooth scanning process)
✅ How to manage the data that you capture to provide productivity gains in your flock – with one, or more years' worth of data
✅ Answer questions that you may have for a scanning contractor.
Don’t miss the opportunity to ask any questions of these two highly experienced presenters.
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