Overview
You will be introduced to emerging trends and practices in sustainable management and improvement of the major livestock industries in Australia. You will explore the major livestock industries, production cycles, roles of genetics, environment, nutrition, reproductive efficiency and health in sustainable management practices and profitability, new and emerging industries and issues affecting industry development.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite AGRI11003 Livestock Production Management
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Self reflection
Take steps to improve response rate
The response rate in this unit was less than 50%. Students will be engaged during lectures/tutorials right from the start of term and the importance of completing the evaluations emphasized. Reminder emails will be sent before and just after the evaluations are open.
- Analyse livestock production systems and identify strategies for improvement.
- Review global emerging trends in sustainable livestock production.
- Develop and evaluate an innovation implementation strategy.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Presentation - 20% | |||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 60% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||
| 5 - Team Work | |||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Presentation - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 60% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Beef Cattle Production and Trade
(2014)
Authors: David Cottle, Lewis Kahn
CSIRO Publishing
Collingwood Collingwood , VIC , Australia
ISBN: 9780643109889
Binding: Hardcover
Beef Agskills
Edition: Catalogue number: B105 (2005 )
Authors: NSW Department of Primary Industries
NSW Department of Primary Industries
https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/animals/beef-agskills-book https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/animals/beef-agskills-book , NSW , Australia
ISBN: 9780731305872
Binding: Paperback
Dairy Agskills
Edition: Catalogue number: B106 (2008 )
Authors: NSW Department of Primary Industries
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Online: https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/animals/dairy-agskills Online: https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/animals/dairy-agskills , NSW , Australia
ISBN: 9780731306091
Binding: Paperback
Pig Agskills
Edition: Catalogue number: B737 (2010)
Authors: NSW Department of Primary Industries
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Online: https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/agskills/pig-agskills Online: https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/agskills/pig-agskills , NSW , Australia
ISBN: 9780731306312
Binding: Paperback
Poultry Agskills
Edition: Catalogue number: B704 (2008)
Authors: NSW Department of Primary Industries
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Online: https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/agskills/poultry-agskills Online: https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/agskills/poultry-agskills , NSW , Australia
ISBN: 9780731306069
Binding: Paperback
Sheep Agskills
Edition: Catalogue number: B111 (2016)
Authors: NSW Department of Primary Industries
NSW Department of Primary Industries
https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/animals/sheep-agskills-book https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/list/animals/sheep-agskills-book , NSW , Australia
ISBN: 9781742568836
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
All of the supplementary textbooks are optional resources that you may find useful when learning about livestock production. The information in these supplementary textbooks will be covered in lectures, with additional resources and suggested readings available on Moodle.
The prescribed text is available (if you haven't previously purchased it) from the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code)
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Google Earth Pro
- Microsft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Zoom
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
j.k.manning@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Unit overview, assessment requirements, livestock production overview and global livestock trends
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Events and Submissions/Topic
No practical (Monday) this week.
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Extensive livestock production: beef cattle production
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Intensive livestock production: poultry production (broiler and layer)
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Global Livestock Trends Presentation Due: Week 4 Monday (1 Apr 2019) 9:00 am AEST
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Intensive livestock production: pig production
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Meat processing and judging, technologies in meat science
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Field trip / Northern Australia Intercollegiate Meat Judging (ICMJ) competition this week in ROK
Field Trip Report Due: Week 6 Friday (26 Apr 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
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Grazing and pasture Management, soil, pasture and livestock interactions
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Emerging animal industies
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No formal lectures this week. Instead, there is a compulsory all day field trip showcasing a variety of different livestock production systems
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Field trip (instead of lectures)
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Innovation, genetics, new and emerging technologies
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Feeding management and budgeting with a dairy focus
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Indigenous pastoralism, livestock production in developing countries
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Field trip
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There are compulsory field trips in Week 5, 6, 9 and 12. In Week 6 (Thursday 25 - Saturday 27 April 2019) is the Northern Beef Industry conference and workshop in Rockhampton where attendance is compulsory (free accommodation available for EMD and BDG students). Further information for all field trips will be provided on Moodle.
If the links for the supplementary textbooks do not work, please search for the appropriate AgSkills book under https://www.tocal.nsw.edu.au/publications/
1 Presentation
Discuss global trends in a chosen livestock production industry, presented in class in the form of a powerpoint presentation.
Prepare and deliver a 10 minute presentation on the topic of "Global trends in livestock production" in class. You will be assigned a partner, choose a livestock production system and discuss the following aspects:
- Introduce your chosen livestock production system
- Review what is happening globally
- Discuss a minimum of two global trends, including outlining past, present and future directions, and whether these trends are positive/negative in the context of livestock production
You will be required to answer at least one question after your presentation, and evaluate each of your peers (including asking at least one question).
Further details and the marking rubric will be available on Moodle.
Week 4 Monday (1 Apr 2019) 9:00 am AEST
DUE Week 4, Monday 1 April March 9:00 AM AEST, but presented in class Week 4
Week 4 Friday (5 Apr 2019)
Grades will be returned within 10 working days after students have presented this assessment.
You will be assessed on:
- Clear introduction
- The use of statistical and other information relevant to Australian and Global livestock production
- Discussion of the information in the context of sustainable livestock production
- Adherence to the time frame
- Overall presentation and use of slides
- References
- Peer evaluation
Further details and a marking rubric will be available on the Moodle page.
- Review global emerging trends in sustainable livestock production.
- Communication
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
2 Written Assessment
This assessment has two parts:
PART A: FIELD TRIP REPORT (15%):
You will be required to attend a compulsory field trip in Week 5 and complete a report (max. 1500 words) that addresses the following aspects:
- Provide a summary (enterprise, species, environment, feeding etc.) of 2 properties attended during the Week 5 field trip
- Highlight 3 challenges for each property
- For each of the 3 challenges identify 2 strategies for improvement
- Discuss the pros and cons of each of these strategies
Specific details of the Week 5 field trip, a copy of the field trip report and the marking rubric will be available on Moodle.
PART B: PARTICIPATION (5%):
Attendance and active participation in guest lectures, including all field trips. You will be required to ask at least one question after each guest lecture (i.e., any talk given by someone other than the unit coordinator). Questions can be asked in person or submitted via the forum.
Week 6 Friday (26 Apr 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
Part A DUE Week 6, Friday 26 April 5:00 PM AEST; Part B DUE Week 12, Friday 7 June 5:00 PM AEST
Week 8 Monday (6 May 2019)
Grades will be returned within 10 working days after the due date.
Your field trip report will be marked according to the following content:
- Summary of the enterprises visited
- Discussion of challenges these enterprises face
- Identification of strategies for improvement, including the pros and cons
- Attendance and participation in the field trip
- Addressing all aspects of the task
- Writing quality and structure
- Analyse livestock production systems and identify strategies for improvement.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
3 Written Assessment
Develop a plan for implementation and subsequent use of a Precision Livestock Management (PLM) technology.
Your plan should include the following aspects:
- Selection and overview of one PLM technology
- Develop a strategy for implementation and use of the technology in a livestock enterprise
- Outline the impact of the technology on either the producer, enterprise or how it monitors an important aspect of the animal
- Analyse the risks and challenges to implementation
This assessment will be in the format of an essay (max. 3000 words) and must be supported by the use of references.
The marking rubric will be available on Moodle and a list of appropriate PLM technologies to consider.
Review/Exam Week Monday (10 June 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
DUE Week 13/Review week, Monday 10 June 5:00 PM AEST
Exam Week Friday (21 June 2019)
Grades will be returned within 10 working days after submission.
Your essay will be marked according to the following:
- Content, including:
- Introduction and conclusions
- Critical thinking
- Innovation and relevant strategies for implementing a PLM technology
- Addressing all aspects of the task
- Use of references
- Writing quality and structure
- Presentation
- Develop and evaluate an innovation implementation strategy.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
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