Lifetime Ewe Management - Set Your Ewes up for Success
Gain the skills and knowledge to optimise your ewe flock potential.
RIST and AWI’s Lifetime Ewe Management (LTEM) course is designed for Australian sheep producers, ideal for groups of 5-7 participants, who will meet on-farm six times within 12 months.
Your group will be led by an experienced sheep consultant (an LTEM trainer) where you will learn;
- How to condition score
- How to prepare ewes for joining
- Manage single and twin-bearing ewes at different stages of their reproductive cycle
- Assess pasture and calculate supplementary feeding rates
- Set up lambing paddocks,
- Form weaning strategies to maximise weaner survival and improve lifetime productivity
- Set targets for condition score, conception, lamb survival, ewe mortality, lamb growth rate and feed on offer.
LTEM Impact
More than 5,000 producers have undertaken the course nationally, representing 30% of the national ewe flock.
On average, LTEM producers have driven stocking rates up by 9.3% and marking and weaning rates by 7%, and Ewe mortality has reduced by 25%
Course Investment
The cost of LTEM is $2,450 plus GST per participant. Australian Wool innovation offers eligible woolgrowers a subsidy of $900 bringing the course cost to $1,550 plus GST per participant.
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)
The LTEM training program was developed by the AWI funded Lifetime Wool project and RIST in 2006.
AWI has developed the Lifetime Ewe Management Application App – A free app for producers which records key measurement information used in LTEM and is available at the App store and the Google Play store.
The app has had over 8,000 downloads to date!
How to register for the Lifetime Ewe Management course?
Contact like-minded neighbours and farmers in your local area to gather enough numbers to form a group.
Connect with a LTEM trainer in your State (click on the tiles at the top of this page to find a trainer near you) and register your interest to get a group started. Once a group is confirmed, Our National Programs Manager will contact you to assist with enrolling in the LTEM program.