Assessment

Lambing Flats is a farm intended to raise

• Cattle

• Sheep

• Vegetables

• Pigs

A key concern with Lambing Flats is (choose 2)

• Cost to employ people to maintain the large area

• Cost of the feed for the cattle

• Cost to maintain equipment and ongoing maintenance costs

• Cost to irrigate and fertilise the land

Well maintained fences are important to (choose 2)

• prevent or reduce stock loss from wandering off or injury

• prevent or reduce stock loss from pests and diseases

• make the property look nice to sell in the future

• prevent or reduce stock loss from predators

Cattle are healthier if they are well fed, have access to water, shade and disease control.

• True

• False

The average climate conditions of CQ (compared to southern states) are:

• High rainfall

  High temperature

• low rainfall

  high temperature

• high rainfall

  low temperature

• low rainfall

  low temperature

Productivity relates to

• The wholistic management of the system (farm)

• How efficient everything in the system is

• Improving what is inefficient in the system

• How much time and effort is put into achieving something

To improve productivity on a cattle farm you can (choose two)

• 1. 1. reduce the number of hours staff are employed

  2. 2. buy more equipment

• 1. 1. buy equipment or technology

  2. 2. train staff to use it efficiently

• 1. 1. improve the soil

  2. 2. improve the trees

• 1. 1. improve the water access

  2. 2. improve the treatment of animals

Causes of water as a productivity issue (choose all that apply)

• lack of rainfall

• over-irrigation (flooding)

• lack of maintenance

• contaminated water

Possible solutions to improve cattle health

• Informal checks by manual labour

• Using Drones / AI to compare cattle

• Regular feeding/weighing

  /pest

• Using Drones/AI to monitor water and feed levels

Ethical treatment is

• How often something can be reused

• How right an animal is treated

• How the roles and rights of people are considered