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Built for Excellence

Rearing the Best Calves

Feed Intake and how to Improve Marbling of Wagyu

Feedlot and its Transformative Move to Become a Meat Business

Ridgeback® for Branded Beef

How This Farm is Increasing Milk Production 1-2 Litres per Cow

Hilltop Dairy to Increase Milking From 2 to 3 Timeas a Day

Live export in the Northern Territory

Join Tom Dawkins, CEO of NTLEA, at the Berrimah Yards

Better Production and Cow Health

Keith Howe on the Benefits of Optimised Airflow

100 Days Under Ridgeback®

Pen Maintenance Under a Ridgeback®

Ridgeback® Trial in Wet Winter Conditions

Managing Feed for Cattle Under a Ridgeback®

How a Ridgeback® Keeps Punters Cool

Teys Australia Roof-Lift

A Signature Structure Born From Necessity

How a Ridgeback® Keeps Punters Cool

Our Featured Projects

Teys Australia

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Covered Feeding Trial at Teys Charlton Set to Answer Some Big Questions

When cattle arrive at the Teys Australia Victorian feedlot, they are now divided for scientific purposes. There’s nothing new about sorting arrivals at a feedlot, but this specific drafting is set to provide data to answer a vital industry question. To shed or not to shed. Or more specifically, what is the best for animal health?  Productivity? And profit? This first inhouse trial at the Charlton feedlot, in the state’s Wimmera, has been running for 90 days…
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Rangers Valley

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Choice underpins cattle comfort at Rangers Valley 

Cattle emerge from thick fog, walking along the yard rails in a big group. Next come the pen riders. They are rugged-up. But it’s their fluorescent safety vests that standout against the hazy morning light. Streams of frosted air, white puffs, blow out the noses of the horses and cattle. They are turning hot air into cold, simply by breathing.It’s chilly. Icy, really. But it will get warmer – quite sunny. And then a frost – up to minus five degrees celsius returns the next day…
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Parker Dairy

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Managing heat stress to cut production losses and maintain animal welfare 

Big producing Australian dairy cows are more susceptible to heat stress than ever before, but scientists have proven that a multifaceted approach is the best way to stem milk losses. This comes after University of Melbourne researchers at its Dookie campus in northern Victoria were able to limit the effects of heat stress to a production decline of only 11 per cent, thanks to employing a range of heat mitigating practices. Previous industry research…
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NTLEA Live Export

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No weather worries for Darwin cattle yards

Leaning on the edge of a concrete feed trough with his arms folded across his chest, Ben Giblett tips his head back slightly while contemplating his answer. “What’s it like to work under the sheds?” he murmurs. “Well, it’s been good when we’ve had 1.5 metres of rain during the past three months,” he laughs. Then, as if to reiterate the point, he turns to face the empty yard and points in the direction of a steel structure with a small amount of hay poking…
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Hilltop Dairy

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Counteracting the climate delivers dairy production gains

It’s a cool yet sunny day in the rolling coastal hills of south west Victoria. Dairy cows – mostly black and white Holsteins – dominate the lush green landscape. From the top of the hills you can see the vast expanse of sea on the far side of the famous Great Ocean Road.  This part of the world is beautiful, yet raw. It isn’t windy today, but the slight breeze coming from the west is chilly. It had been pouring with rain during the past four days, according…
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Ledger Dairy

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Flexible farming delivers results for Queensland dairy farmer

GRANT LEDGER’S dairy herd has a lot of freedom. His family’s 220 Illawarra milking cows can choose to graze their lush Sunshine Coast Hinterland property. Or not. If it’s too hot, humid or even raining they can make their way back to the shade and shelter of an Entegra Ridgeback®. From there, they can decide when they want to step-out into the undercover feed pad area for a bite to eat. Or not. Instead, they could just lay comfortably in the…
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Elbow Valley Beef

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Shade and Shelter a “Shaw” bet for Wagyu Marbling Magic

It’s easy to see why Elbow Valley Beef customers are lost for words at a site visit. Or anyone for that matter. Stepping from the beating heat and glaring sun of Queensland into the shade of one of their Ridgeback® sheds – where their Wagyu are housed – you’d be forgiven for thinking the temperature had dropped. And someone had turned on a fan. But outside, it’s still 35 degrees celsius and the trees surrounding the Canning Downs South Feedlot…
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Glowery Dairies

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Capturing the cream with an investment for the future

Every farmer knows the value of the next generation. They are the future of the business and underpin profitability for years to come.  So, it’s no surprise that one Swan Hill dairy farmer has invested in his youth to ensure they fulfill their potential. And if their growth rates are anything to go buy – his decision is already reaping rewards. Third-generation dairy farmer Matt Glowrey is now rearing 1200 calves under the shelter of a new Entegra Ridgeback®…
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Clermont Race Club

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Country racing club invests in the future 

It’s easy to imagine the Clermont Race Club packed with revelers. Bookies set-up beneath the Ridgeback® shed, taking bets from egar punters. Families with children catching up with friends on the lawn – in the shade – in front of the home straight. What’s harder to envisage is one unique entry into the Queensland club’s Fashions on the Field event. “This young lady had the hessian bag as a dress,” Race Club committee member Cindy…
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What Our Clients Say

“Having healthy calves in our dairy business is integral to the end-point which is making milk,” he said.
“If we can grow a stronger, healthier calf fast – at the start of her life – and maintain that growth throughout its life, it will be a bigger, healthier cow when she has her first calf.
“So ultimately from that fact alone, we will be having a better cow in the herd so more dollars in our pocket.”

— Matt Glowery

Through summer you get 40 degree days and the troughs are out in the open, they get direct sunlight and algal bloom. We try and mitigate that through trough blocks and cleaning troughs twice a week, however, there will also be a temperature rise in that water. Eight hundred kilo cattle don’t handle those sorts of environmental factors, there’s crowding and panting. However, standing underneath a Ridgeback™ , with the design, there’s a constant airflow, you get a nice, cool breeze. There’s a significant difference in the maximum day time temperature.”

— Jack Shaw

“Happy cows produce more milk, it is as simple as that.”
“And the cheapest feed we produce is what’s out in the paddocks, but in our climate they can’t graze all day long. It is too hot. That’s why when they are able to come back to the Ridgeback, it has made a big difference to how comfortable our cows are and the amount of feed our cows will eat.”

— Grant Ledger

“The test (butterfat and protein) went up immediately,” Chad said. “There was a 0.2 per cent average increase across the fat and protein. They were eating more feed, obviously because they were more comfy. We had budgeted on the milk (litres) going up but didn’t budget on the test going up.”

— Carita Parker

“There were key drivers in improvement in hot standard carcass weights, improvements reflected in animal health - lower morbidity and mortality rates,”
“We also were considering that our wood chip program, for bedding, that we have for our heavier cattle, there could be some offsets or (opportunities to) reduce that bedding structure in various depths because of the result of having a shelter structure.
“So adding all those components up, and pen maintenance throughout the year - pens having less water, less erosion - that should reduce our maintenance costs.”

— Keith Howe

“We look at feeding efficiency, carcass weight and the animal’s health.”
“With bedding in the shed, there’s less mud on the cattle,”
“It’s a comfort thing and also for the (processing) plant, they won’t have to spend as much time washing the animal prior to slaughter.”

— Ash Sheahan

Productivity on Farm

BeefEx Wrap

October 20, 2024

Building a Ridgeback®: The benefits outweigh the cost. The results of the Rangers Valley trial, where partially covered housing in the final 100 days boosted cattle performance – as presented by Dr Melissa George at BeefEx’s R&D session.

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Beef Ex Bites

October 16, 2024

ONE global food integrity expert has praised Australia’s feedlot quality assurance program, crediting it for market access benefits and assisting the entire global beef industry’s social licence.

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Ridgeback shade cover at Rangers Valley feedlot, designed and built by Entegra, sheltering beef cattle in pens beneath the steel structure

Let’s chat at BeefEx 

October 15, 2024

Visit the Entegra guest lounge at BeefEx, Brisbane. The Entegra team will be at booth 60 and 61 and available to talk through your ideas, explore concepts and share information.

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