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These articles are a collection of the neXtgen Agri team's research, developments, work and experiences, case studies with clients, along with reports and findings published by the industry. They have been gathered for you, to keep you updated so if there is a topic you would like to hear more about, please let us know at info@nextgenagri.com

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Farmer = People that Farm - #3

Growing up on our family farm in the Victoria Mallee, I had four fantastic role models, Mum and Dad on one side of the dam, and Dad's parents, Mama and Pa on the other. Pa had suffered a blood-clot in his leg and lost his leg from above the knee...

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October 13, 2019

Farmer = People that Farm - #2

In the first article in this series, I discussed how the large variation in uptake of technology across agriculture is actually not different to the level of technology use within the (very much larger) non-farming population...

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October 6, 2019

Farmer = People that Farm - #1

Maybe I am stating the obvious, but farmers are indeed humans that farm. The reason I am making this obvious statement is two-fold. Firstly, for much of my career I have been involved in discussions, work shops and funding bids to improve the...

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September 22, 2019

Structural faults - what are we missing?

If sheep and cows were born with wheels, breeding them would be a whole lot easier! I know much has been said about us “numbers breeders” but as you hopefully know by now, we are also keen on functional animals with good structure and in merino...

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August 24, 2019

CV or not CV

During my PhD I did a very large experiment to try and further understand the physiological consequences of differences in muscling, fatness and growth breeding values in Merino sheep. It was the last and largest of the five experiments that I...

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