DELIVERING NEW CRC TECHNOLOGIES TO THE NORTHERN BEEF INDUSTRY

摘要

This paper describes two delivery strategies used to create awareness of Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) technologies. The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland as a core partner of the Beef CRC has focussed its extension effortthrough the Commercial Application of Beef Genetic Technologies (CABGT) project, hi addition to creating awareness of CRC outcomes across the northern beef industry, the CABGT team selected temperament and the use of flight time (as an indicator of temperament) and the use of DNA marker technology as specific examples with two client groups (students and seedstock beef producers). Adult learning principles and the action learning cycle concept were incorporated into delivery to facilitate understandingof the technologies and progress toward application and adoption of these technologies on farm. Evaluation of CABGT delivery activities to date indicates that 90% of participants believed that they could apply some of these technologies on farm.