Sabrina

Senior lecturer livestock production and welfare / beef and pasture farmer /

[Sabrina @docSab]

Digi John has spent the last three days talking about #digifarm and @SiaSydney at @AgQuip for @Aus_ScienceWeek #scienceweek2022. Great way to spend a day! @Sydney_Science

[Sabrina @docSab]

Great day at @AgQuip 2022 for @Aus_ScienceWeek. This clever little stand by @llsnsw demonstrates the importance of good grazing management for soil and water health. Simple but effective @land_hydro #scienceweek2022 @SiaSydney @Sydney_Science

[Land_rehydrate_llara @land_hydro]

Cattle on the contours @ USyd Llara! Well, 210 weaners actually where after 96 hours on 6.67 ha the variegated thistle was nicely polished off. @wv2017 @vanessapino @docSab @SiaSydney @SydneySOLES @pbinarrabri

[Sabrina @docSab]

Contour updates! #spillway is catching water for the @land_hydro project
These #soilcontours are essential to slow the flow of water across the landscape and increase water penetration
@wv2017 @amandagraafhot1 @Sydney_Science @SiaSydney

[Sabrina @docSab]

Great to share the @land_hydro project
Here is @amandagraafhot1 talking #soilcontours and #spillways with the @NorthWestLLS #prograze participants at @Sydney_Science LLara Farm
@SiaSydney @wv2017

[Sabrina @docSab]

Admiring the fresh contours for @land_hydro… @amandagraafhot1 admiring the butterflies….@SiaSydney @wv2017

[Sabrina @docSab]

Our little @land_hydro helpers have arrived at Llara farm! Can’t wait to put them to work #grazingmanagement @SiaSydney @wv2017

[Vanessa Pino @vanessapino]

Field day and sampling @TeaBagIndex for @land_hydro USYD. So happy having @SenorSoil exploring our monitoring sites towards new collaborations with our team 🤓🌱
@wv2017 @SydneySOLES @SiaSydney

[Sydney Agriculture @SiaSydney]

Dr Sabrina Lomax, a senior lecturer in livestock behaviour and welfare, will deliver a talk on securing the future of animal agriculture through optimised efficiency and welfare of livestock. Dr Lomax’s research into pain mitigation has had direct industry impact worldwide.

[Sydney Agriculture @SiaSydney]

Dr Sabrina Lomax is next up to the podium at the RD Watt lecture and starts by telling us that from her earliest days she has wanted to work with animals. Sabrina’s research focusses on effective pain management for livestock animals.

[Sydney Agriculture @SiaSydney]

Sabrina believes we need to take a systems approach to animal welfare. Rather than focussing on individual problems we should consider the system as a whole. She feels that new technologies will enable this shift in the industry.

[Sydney Agriculture @SiaSydney]

Sabrina’s work has shown that removing humans from the system and giving animals a choice can improve animal welfare. Data driven approaches, such as voluntary weigh systems and sensors that monitor animal behaviour, are also increasingly employed to inform management decisions.

[Sydney Agriculture @SiaSydney]

Increased availability of data on animal behaviour and welfare is now being used to inform breeding decisions and to develop novel modelling tools.

[Sydney Agriculture @SiaSydney]

An enlightening talk from Dr Sabrina Lomax on animal welfare science at @Sydney_Uni. She hopes that her research will eventually lead to an animal welfare certification system on animal agricultural produce in the future.

[Sydney Agriculture @SiaSydney]

Now for some hard hitting questions for our speakers to close out our annual RD Watt lecture.

[Sydney Agriculture @SiaSydney]

We thank our brilliant speakers from tonight’s RD Watt lecture, Emeritus Professor Frank Nicholas, Emeritus Professor Richard Whittington, Dr Sabrina Lomax and Hannah Plummer. We would also like to thank our host for the evening, Associate Professor Joy Becker

[Tony Windsor @TonyHWindsor]

61 years ago a young farmer from Werris Creek came to help with other local farmers plant our wheat crop after my Father was killed in a tractor accident with a train ..that young farmer died last night, his name was Jim Lomax..thank you Jim, I have not forgotten...Jim was 93.

[Sabrina @docSab]

@TonyHWindsor Thank you tony he was a bit of a legend

[Svein Tveitdal @tveitdal]

Nearly 500 million animals killed in Australian bushfires https://t.co/MpXp78avEl