Grazing Livestock Group
Contact: Nir Bas
Tel: 972-53-793830 nirbas@migal.org.il
Agenda
- Improving management practices in beef herds to raise profitability;
- Using range and scrubland efficiently for grazing animals;
- Reducing predation of grazing animals by wild life;
- Introducing Boer goats to graze in scrubland;
Ongoing R&D Projects
- Technologies for forestation of herbaceous pasture areas.
- Know how for the combining grazing of cattle and black goats on natural scrub pasture.
- Development of herbaceous plants after single treatment by burning spraying and top-dressing.
- Development of model for planning and day-to-day management of herd in pasture.
- Ecological and economic implications of using herbaceous pasture at various grazing pressures.
- Identification of pollutants and study of their involvement in abortions in beef cattle.
- Technologies for improving weaning weight of late calves.
- Technologies for model farms for beef cattle on natural scrubland.
- Monitoring food intake and value in pasture cattle by means of NIRS analysis of dung.
- Optimisation of distribution in program of oral vaccination against rabies.
- Renewal and establishment of natural scrub trees under grazing by cattle.
- Know how of managing acclimation and testing performance of Boer goats on scrub pasture.
- Know how of the resistance of cross between Drausmeister and local Baladi cattle to tick fever.
- Technologies for pedometer and GPS to monitor behaviour of nursing cows.