Welcome to the ALFA Feedlot TECH Training Hub

Office and administration staff play a crucial role in managing commodities on a feedlot by ensuring efficient documentation, tracking inventory levels, coordinating orders, and facilitating seamless operations. Your attention to detail and organisational skills are instrumental in maintaining accurate records and optimising resource allocation, ultimately contributing to the smooth functioning of the feedlot's supply chain.   Completing this module will help you to:   Understand the importance of commodity management Know your role in overseeing commodity procurement, receival and storage Carry out best practices for record keeping and regulatory compliance Facilitate effective coordination of commodity management   Read more

Office and administration staff play a crucial role in managing livestock on a feedlot. You play are role in the receival and dispatch of cattle, weighing of livestock trucks, ensuring required paperwork is complete and correct and maintaining livestock records. Your role is vital in ensuring livestock are accepted for their desired market.   Completing this module will help you to:   Understand the cattle receive and dispatch process Know what documentation is required for livestock administration Complete required livestock paperwork to meet requirements Understand the software and technology that is available  Read more

This course will help you develop an understanding of all aspects of land livestock transport and the importance of animal wellbeing. Through caring for cattle in the lead up to transportation, assessing animal to ensure fitness for the journey and managing animal with compromised welfare. You will learn how to support your feedlot to prepare the cattle to travel and arrive well at their destination.  Read more

Antimicrobial Stewardship Series Antimicrobial stewardship describes practices and protocols designed to reduce the need for antimicrobial use and to ensure that when antimicrobials are required they’re utilised in a way that maximises efficacy while minimising adverse effects – including the development of antimicrobial resistance. In Australian feedlots, antimicrobials play an indispensable role in helping us manage the health and welfare of cattle under our care. Antimicrobial resistance has become a concern of both medical and livestock policymakers, medical professionals, veterinarians, producers, and the general community. It occurs when the bacteria causing people or livestock to be ill become resistant to antimicrobial treatment. This can be caused by overuse or inappropriate use of antimicrobials. Concerns about reduced antimicrobial effectiveness, coupled with fewer new antimicrobial technologies being discovered, means we must preserve the effectiveness of antimicrobials currently available. The Australian Lot Feeders’ Association is dedicated to preserving the effectiveness of antimicrobials, and to protecting human and animal health, by promoting responsible antimicrobial use. The Australian beef industry has a great reputation to uphold; previous surveillance has reported levels of antimicrobial resistance in Australian cattle that are either absent or very low. The Antimicrobial stewardship Guidelines provide a continuous improvement framework that will help lot feeders understand and ensure appropriate use of antimicrobials and therefore reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance. These guidelines are aligned with Australia’s First National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy (Australian Government 2015). The guidelines outline five stewardship principles which are collectively termed the ‘5Rs’ - responsibility, review, reduce, refine and replace. These principles will help guide lot feeders toward best practice management use of antimicrobials and prevent overuse, which may contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance.     Disclaimer & Copyright This E-learning series has been by funded grain-fed levies and matching federal government R&D contributions in consultation with the Australian Lot Feeders' Association. Care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this training course. However, MLA does not accept responsibility for the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information or opinions contained in this training course. This training course is intended to provide general information only and it has been prepared without taking into account your specific circumstances, objectives, or needs. You should make your own enquiries before making decisions concerning your interests. Your use of, or reliance on, any content is entirely at your own risk and MLA accepts no liability for any losses or damages incurred by you as a result of that use or reliance. © 2019 Meat & Livestock Australia Limited ABN 39 081 678 364. You may not copy, republish, download, transmit, communicate, or otherwise use this content in any way without the prior written consent of Meat & Livestock Australia Limited ABN 39 081 678 364. Any such enquiries should be directed to info@mla.com.au, or the Content Manager, PO Box 1961, North Sydney, NSW 2059. Read more

Join resident facilitators, Jeff House and Emily Litzow, live as they guide you and the team through some of Feedlot TECHs online courses. Each month, a new module will be presented as live, interactive group training.  The access fee is per feedlot/business, and covers all staff that wish to partake in the training session. Read more

Join resident facilitators, Jeff House and Emily Litzow, live as they guide you and the team through some of Feedlot TECHs online courses. Each month, a new module will be presented as live, interactive group training.  The access fee is per feedlot/business and covers all staff that wish to partake in the training session. Read more