Tullimba
Tullimba is a 2000 head research feedlot on 740 hectares, 40 minutes from the UNE Campus.
Main Areas of Research
- Beef genetics
- Methane emissions from cattle
- Feed Efficiency
- Meat Eating Quality
- Animal Nutrition and Performance
- Animal Behaviour and Welfare
About Tullimba
Tullimba is a world-class feedlot research facility designed to provide research and training opportunities to enhance the international competitiveness of the Australian beef industry.
Tullimba uses GrowSafe feeders to monitor individual animal feed intake and allow calculation of breeding values for feed efficiency in beef cattle. A recent expansion has seen the addition of 16 new GrowSafe feeders along with In Pen Weighing systems to increase our capacity for feed efficiency research and testing.
GreenFeed units allow measurement of methane emissions from individual animals. Utilised by industry, researchers and commercial beef producers this feedlot provides the facilities to investigate issues such as feed efficiency, emissions reductions using feed additives, selection for low methane emissions cattle, behaviour, animal welfare and feedlot management.
Tullimba is also home to a 1300 ML dam with a large irrigation licence, providing scope for grazing and forage research.
Trade and breeding cattle run on pasture at Tullimba are another valuable resource for grazing beef production research.
Recent upgrades to the feed mill have added a grain tempering plant and computerised feed-out wagons to improve efficiency of feed mixing and animal performance.
Further infrastructure upgrades and a licence expansion will improve the scope of research at Tullimba.
Tullimba provides the ideal facility to encourage greater cooperation between geneticists, nutritionists and meat scientists, and is designed to connect R&D outcomes with the feedlot industry.
View the Tullimba Pollution Incident Response Management Plan (PIRMP) (PDF, 887.13 KB).
