Breeding for improved flystrike control with Geoff Lindon
Sheep blowfly strike is a major disease and welfare concern for the Australian sheep industry. Each year flystrike treatment and loss of production costs the Australian sheep industry $173 million. Extensive research has focused on selective breeding of sheep to reduce susceptibility to flystrike as a long term strategy for reducing the incidence of blowfly strike. In this episode of It's Time For Ewe, Fiona Macarthur is joined by AWI's Geoff Lindon to look at the latest developments in selective breeding for improved fly control. Geoff is AWI's general manager of genetics and animal welfare advocacy, he attended Roseworthy Agricultural College for 3 years and completed a post-graduate diploma in financial management with the University of New England in 1980. For 5 years Geoff was the Manager of the Trangie Agricultural Research Center and ran the fleece management laboratory for 2 years, Geoff held the position of livestock operations manager for Tynham Agriculture Group for 11 years before joining AWI back in 2007.