THE results of a study on the long term performance of females in the Senepol crossbreeding project undertaken by the NT Department of Industry Tourism and Trade (DITT) were recently published in the Animal Production Science journal.
The results give northern cattle producers information that is useful in deciding whether to use crossbreeding to target multiple markets (eg. live export and the Australian domestic market).
The study was conducted in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory over 11 years and…