Cattle and land management practices

You can get best-practice manuals of the most up-to-date information on cattle, land and general property management for the Top End and Katherine regions.

They are both a reference book and a guide for producers to quickly get up to speed on local best practice.

Katherine region

The Katherine best-practice manual contains chapters dealing with all of the following subjects:

• animal health
• cattle management
• cattle nutrition
• infrastructure and station development
• land management.

Get the cattle and land management best  practices in the Katherine region manual PDF (13.9 MB).

Top End region

The manual for best practices in the Top End region is available in two parts.

Part 1 contains information and chapters on the following topics:

• landforms
• seasons
• infrastructure and station development
• land management
• cattle breeding
• cattle management.

Get the cattle and land management best practices in the Top End region manual part 1 PDF (9.8 MB).

Part 2 contains chapters on the following topics:

• cattle nutrition
• animal health
• floodplain production.

Get the cattle and land management best practices in the Top End region manual part 2 PDF (13.9 MB).

Performance measures help predict pastoral property returns and provide a yardstick for station performance.

You can get the outcome of trials, herd health programs, pastoralist feedback and surveys over a number of years for the Alice Springs area.

Read the Agnote cattle performance data for the Alice Springs district PDF (68.8 KB).

A study found the rubberbush - a coarse shrub native to tropical Asia and Africa - is not toxic to grazing animals in Australia, although it has killed animals in Africa.

Dehorning and castration are essential management practices for the Northern Territory cattle industry.

For the best methods and technique recommendations read the Agnote dehorning and castration of calves under six months of age PDF (1.1 MB).

If you are a property manager, you must make sure you are prepared for dry conditions.

A property action plan can help you:

• accurately identify all livestock on the property
• assess all available feed
• calculate the water supplies for:
  • dams
  • water points
  • billabongs
  • springs.

This plan will help you understand your current situation and from there, identify what steps you need to take.

Get the property action plan template XLSX (31.9 KB).