Subsidies for Mandatory Electronic Tagging – The Current State of Play Across Australia

Everyone’s talking about it, but hardly anyone can give definitive answers! I’ve had my ear to the ground following the announcement of mandatory EIDs across Australia, and have been waiting for each State to finalise their plans before reaching out to you all. Whilst there are more announcements to come and some finer details to […]

Time is Running Out: Use the FY23 Instant Asset Write-Off with BreedELITE Today

The clock is ticking, and the end of the financial year is fast approaching. This means that it’s crunch time for you to take advantage of the instant asset write-off for FY23. If you’ve been considering upgrading your sheep operation with the BreedELITE Sheep System, now is the perfect time to act. As part of […]

Stop Buying Things in Pieces

If you always buy ‘bits’ of systems, you’ll end up with a pile of jigsaw pieces that don’t form any complete picture. You don’t go out on a Friday night to buy a steak and chips with a pint of beer, each from a different pub, and then eat it on a plate from the […]

Taking the Guesswork Out of Your Sheep Operation

You can’t improve what you don’t measure, but the first part of improving is knowing what you’ve got. It’s no different in sheep farming. And the best way to know what to improve is with data. Without data you’re flying blind, and you don’t want to be doing that when you have a lot on […]

Do You Collect Data Or Use Data?

The day you become a better breeder… “I’ve got data everywhere but nowhere…” “I’ve spent all this money on technology but still can’t seem to make easy decisions…” “It’s all hidden in session files and excel sheets…” “I want to back up my decisions but I’m still guessing…” “I must be doing something wrong because […]

Choose The Right Metric For Drafting Success, The Wrong One Could Cost You…

Time and time again we see farmers, regrettably, solely choosing an autodrafter based on the advertised speed of weighing. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, a drafter is only one part of your overall data management system, and a wholistic view needs to be taken. With that aside, pushing speed in autodrafting […]

Looking Over The Neighbours Fence

In the last blog, we spoke about buying decisions and not buying machines. In this blog, we’ll list some of the different decisions that our clients are making, with the hope that this will inspire a great idea for you to want to make these same decisions too. Decisions like these are available to both […]

Data Is Useless Unless It Underpins Decisions

A lot of people ask us the question, “What data can I collect with your system?”. We almost always counter with, “Data is useless unless it underpins decisions, what decisions do you want to make?”. Most people say back, “I’ve never thought about it like that” and the discussion that follows opens their minds to […]

Mandatory EID Is Coming, Are You Prepared?

VIC has done it, other states are thinking it, everybody is talking about it and we are all wondering when the headline is going to appear in the papers. We all know mandatory EID is coming at some point, so what are you going to do when that happens? It could be tomorrow… so how can that […]

(SECRET #4) TOP 7 Benefits Of An All-In-One System

Opting for an All-In-One-System like the BreedELITE Sheep System provides you with a number of benefits, including: BENEFIT #1: Sheep Data Always In One Place: To have information for making better decisions all your sheep data must be in one place. With an All-In-One-System all the data is always stored in the BreedELITE Sheep Software […]