Supporting the next generation of agricultural graduates, Milne Feeds continues to supply feeds to the likes of the Muresk Institute, Murdoch University, Kiara Agriculture College, Harvey Agriculture College & the University of WA. This fosters the opportunity for students to critique the impacts different feeds can have on both animal performance and welfare. Milne Feeds have had a long-term relationship with the Muresk Institute, with Muresk feeding out Milne’s major sheep feeds, EasyOne and LambGro, to lambs in their commercial feedlot environment. This collaboration allows Milne Feeds to also benchmark the performance of their feeds repetitively, on an annual basis, which is essential to ensure each feed is achieving the necessary growth performance rates for sustainable and profitable lamb production. Additionally, it also helps Milne Feeds to continually enhance and evolve the overall composition of their sheep feeds to remain an industry leader for new technological research &development advancements in ruminant nutrition.
Milne Feed’s nutritionist, Dr Joshua Sweeny, recently visited the Muresk sheep feedlot. He spent time walking around the farm with the farm manager and seeing the sheep being weighed. Getting out in the field provides a great opportunity for Josh to assess feed performance in various management scenarios. It also gives farm managers a chance to liaise directly with the nutritionist and soak up some of Josh’s wealth of technical knowledge.
Muresk are currently feeding a group of Merino cross Dohne lambs in their state-of-the-art feedlot facility on campus, with lambs anticipated for an early processing date close to Christmas. They value the opportunity to track the benefits of feeding a specially formulated sheep feed which meets all the macro and micronutrient requirements of young lambs. Moreover, being able to have individual finished hot standard carcase weights (HSCW) and fat scores from each lamb, through the use of EID tags, allows them to accurately gauge their returns from their saleable lamb meat yields, interlinked closely with both dressing percentage and days on feed.
Milne Feeds is privileged to collaborate with a highly regarded agricultural institute, such as Muresk, and looks forward to helping grow the nutritional knowledge of the next generation of bright professionals on the horizon within the WA agricultural industry.
