Weaners for Profit
Set your weaner lambs up for high performance across key growth stages.
Course Overview
Weaners for Profit (WFP) enables producers to analyse weaner performance, manage post-weaning, manage ewe lambs and hoggets during joining, early and late pregnancy as well as preparing hoggets for joining and reviewing ewe lamb performance.
Weaners for Profit has been designed to follow the successful RIST & AWI Lifetime Ewe Management course.
Details:
Across 12 months, participants will meet on farm for five, one-day- sessions, and conduct pasture assessments and hands-on sheep management training/weighing under the guidance of an experienced WFP trainer.
Fees:
$2,450 + GST per participant.
Program structure:
A group of 5-7 participants from the same local area are grouped together and a Trainer will coordinate your group and deliver the program content to your group on farm.
To make an enquiry or to register your interest to join a group near you, click on the button below.
Current subsidies may exist for this course. Please ask about this in your course enquiry.
Further Information
How do I Join?
After completing an LTEM course, why not stay together as a group and undertake Weaners for Profit.
Alternatively, if you have not completed Lifetime Ewe Management, contact your neighbours or like-minded farmers in the same location and form a group of 5-7 participants and we can send a trainer to come and deliver directly to you.
Speak with Bec Malseed, National Program Manager at RIST for more information – 0407 730 943
Course Fees
Course fees for Weaners for Profit is $2,450 plus GST per participant.
Weaners for Profit will be available to producers at a subsidised rate of $1,715 plus GST thanks to the support of Meat & Livestock Australia through the Profitable Grazing Systems initiative,
Further Information
Training Locations:
This course is delivered in Victoria, South Australia & New South Wales.
Entry Requirements
There are no entry requirements for this course. This course has been ideally designed to follow on from AWI & RIST’s Lifetime Ewe Management course as a 2nd year training program.