Mobile Weighing for Better Cattle Grazing

StrongBo cattle weighing is helping this grazing operation track liveweight gain without running cattle through the yards.
On this NSW farm, daily weight data is being used to improve pasture utilisation, reduce stress, and make better decisions about when cattle should move.

At Abedine, New South Wales, Lachey White manages a large cattle grazing system turning off around 3,800 steers and heifers a year. The operation uses cell grazing, grain-assisted pasture finishing, pivot irrigation on part of the farm, and regular liveweight monitoring to hit market specifications more accurately.

In this video, Tim Thompson looks at how a Gallagher Autoweigh system is being used in the paddock to track average daily weight gain, reduce the need for yard weighing, and help managers make grazing decisions before pasture condition is visibly declining.

The key idea is simple: if cattle weight gain starts to drop, the pasture may be telling you something before your eye can clearly see it. That gives the manager a practical data point for decisions around grazing pressure, paddock moves, residual pasture, livestock performance and market timing.

This video will be useful for cattle producers, graziers, feedlot suppliers, pasture managers, regenerative agriculture operators, landholders and anyone interested in using livestock data to improve grazing decisions. It is especially relevant for producers thinking about pasture utilisation, rotational grazing, cell grazing, walk-over weighing, daily liveweight gain, cattle handling stress, yard weighing costs, livestock technology and practical data use on real farms.

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Details
Location: Abedine, New South Wales
Guest: Lachey White
Enterprise: Cell-grazed cattle finishing system

System featured: Gallagher Autoweigh; https://am.gallagher.com/en-AU/new-products/auto-weigher?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23202402435&gbraid=0AAAAADlFdVn7vY1vmaL4_9y-oqOuDh78F&gclid=CjwKCAjwl97RBhBWEiwAa9rbXd9TTSzV6dIE3Ja6upjLQqepf3bD6CPUew04E7E27hntexFt3V59DBoC-KsQAvD_BwE

Key topics: Cattle weight gain, grazing management, pasture residuals, livestock data, yard weighing, cattle handling stress, market specifications

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4. Chapters / Timestamps

00:00 Pasture utilisation on a large cattle system
00:30 3,800 cattle a year on cell grazing
00:50 Why daily weight gain drives the business
01:20 How the walk-over weighing system works
01:38 Tracking liveweight gain for market targets
02:03 Hitting grid specs without guessing
02:25 How many cattle actually use the unit?
02:36 The hidden cost of yard weighing
03:20 Getting cattle weight data to the cloud
03:40 When weight gain shows pasture is running out
04:00 Using livestock data like a dairy vat reading
04:24 Better grazing decisions and pasture recovery
04:44 What farmers can take from this system