Senior research scientist, (beef and cattle)
Phone: +61 8 87629160
Email: mick.deland@sa.gov.au
Roles and expertise: Senior beef cattle research scientist at Struan Research Centre
Experience: 40 years experience with cattle including:
- artificial insemination, breed introduction, breeding, growth, and carcase evaluation of beef cattle
- rearing, growth, feed-lotting, carcase evaluation of dairy calves destined for export markets
- assessment of efficiency of production
Current and recent projects:
- Effects of selection for fatness on maternal efficiency (Beef CRC3)
- Combination of genetics and regional effects on achieving market specifications (Beef CRC2)
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