 I'd like to welcome Sully Lago to the stand from Meet Livestock Australia program manager for adoption within Meet Livestock Australia to present AgTech and best management practice when it comes to adoption. Welcome Sully. Thanks Graham and afternoon everyone. I quickly just want to take you through how we can achieve adoption both of technology and of best management practices. I've got quite a bit to run through. I've got the clock running so I'm aware that beer o'clock is coming up quickly. So look I just want to take you through what the challenges are associated with adopting new technologies, highlight some of the technology investments that MLA is making at the moment and then just look at some of the existing technologies that we do have and can utilise at the moment and how producers can get involved. When I think about adoption in the red meat industry I think about that approximately we're talking 100,000 red meat producers across the country who are operating businesses both on a small and extensive scale across a large area fairly isolated. So there's a number of challenges that we have there. Just highlighting within South Australia based off the A-Bears data, most recent data we have about 10.2 million head of sheep in the flock representing about 16 percent of the national flock and a million head of cattle representing 4 percent of the national herd. Speaking with my PERSA colleagues, I believe the sheep flock in South Australia has certainly declined since say the heights of the 90s. So like all agricultural industries as we move forward facing some of the challenges we have with climate change, how can we do more with less? And I think this is the opportunity that technology really offers us is how can we use technology to help us drive our production and profitability as businesses. So critical success factors in seeing technologies being adopted on farm. Anything that can decrease operational costs for the business is obviously going to be of appealing and we've certainly seen that today. I think some of the remote waters point monitoring technology really highlights this. If you don't need to do a water run two or three times a week, if you only need to do it once, because you can utilise that technology. There's huge savings in fuel and labour. Any technology that can increase production like say Warcova Wang, where you might be able to market animals at an appropriate time before they lose weight, again, increases the profitability for the business and I think makes sense for producers to utilise. And the other critical success factor is making life easier for producers and freeing up more time in order to focus on other areas in the business. I think the greatest opportunity that we've got in going forward into the year into into the future is the use of data. We've certainly seen today a great range of technologies that are utilising a whole host of sensors and producing a great deal of data. The opportunity we have now is the analysis of that data and what you as producers are going to do as a response to that information that you've received and how you can enact a better time decision to make a greater gain in production and profit. Changing gears a little bit. I just wanted to highlight a investment that MLA has undertaken in partnership with Cebo Labs around what's called the Australian Feedbase Monitor. So this is satellite pasture monitoring based on capturing data associated with estimates for total standing dry matter as well as ground cover percentage. Now this gives data to producers in order for them to make assessments for feed on offer or feed budgeting as well as to monitor ground cover as a means of determining the condition of the pasture. Hopefully it's at least stable if not increasing ground cover. This satellite monitoring that we've partnered with Cebo Labs around is looking at a resolution of one hectare per pixel and would be updated every five days. The data that's going to be turned out will be on an average for the entire property or what's being referred to as a parcel. And this parcel will be linked to the property identification code or LPA area. The really exciting thing is that from the 1st of July 2022 we will be offering this to every red meat producer in Australia for free. So if you're not a member of MLA or have set up your MyMLA account can I really encourage you to do that before the 1st of July because this is a great opportunity to utilise this data. Not only will you get obviously the monthly information on what your total standing dry matter is, but you'll also be able to access seasonality data. So that's this graph down here. So you'll be able to see what that total standing dry matter has looked like over different seasons and be able to compare where this season is sitting for other years. Now I'm sure you've got other data points that you're utilising for that, but this is just again another resource and data source that will be able to utilise. Changing gears again. So thinking about some of the existing technologies that we know are already in practice that the industry can use. Things like electronic identification of individual animals. This obviously can be utilised in partnership then with, say, walkover weighing or even when you're doing pregnancy scanning or testing of cattle. Also just wanted to flag breeding values. If you're looking at rebuilding your herd in response to drought, making sure that you're buying in the best genetic merited animals through the use of EBVs in cattle or ASBVs is really powerful information that you can be utilising. But I did just want to highlight these technologies are not you. They've been around for some time, but we still have limited use of them by producers. And based on some research out of the University of Adelaide, they've highlighted that pregnancy scanning in sheep, or sorry for you in use, we're only seeing about 40 to 50% of producers are scanning their entire you herd and only 30% of those producers that are scanning their use are actually scanning for multiples. This is a huge opportunity for the industry in trying to produce more lambs and increase productivity. So just wanted to flag here a couple of reasons why scanning for use is beneficial. One, obviously it helps you identify your dry, single and twin bearing use and use and maidens. This allows you to tailor your feed on offer based on the pregnancy status of those drys, on those use, or market the animals appropriately as well. Again, allocating the right paddock to the pregnancy status of those use and managing mob size. So say for your twin bearing use, you might want to pop them into a more sheltered paddock and have a smaller mob size so that you can improve the condition score of those pregnant use. Further from the research from the University Adelaide highlighted that if you can increase the condition score for your twin bearing use from 2.3 to 3.2, you're going to get 24% additional lambs at marking. It's a huge gain for your business. So the question is can you afford not to scan? So this is some data that's just come through from a economic cost benefit analysis that we've completed with the University of Adelaide. This final report will be out soon, but I've been able to get a copy of some of this data to share with you today. The modeling was based on 300 different scenarios across all of Southern Australia. And as part of that, there was some inherent costs that were factored in. And I think these are also a good guide for anyone who's thinking about scanning their use and what the cost may be. So the modeling pulled together what the contractor cost might be. So if you're just looking at wanting to scan, just say to identify your drives or pregnancy, that's probably going to work out by the time you factor in the contractor's costs, your costs on farm and any associated costs such as fuel or repairs and maintenance on infrastructure. It's looking at about 83 cents per year. If you're looking at, if you wanted to identify whether there's multiples, this cost slightly increases to $1.17 per head. That you're scanning. So relatively cost efficient. This is the really interesting part. So then they looked at what was the result in the profitability or the benefit that comes from doing that. And for the 300 scenarios, they utilized your time of lambing. So whether you're an autumn, spring or winter lambing, the genotype that you might be having. So whether you've got marinos or marino used with a terminal sire or you've got a maternal type, then looking at your growing season. So a long growing season of say nine months, medium growing season of say 6.5 months or if you're in the serial sheep zone, a short growing season. But the really interesting part in all of this is that for every you, you will make a profit if you're scanning. So on average, it worked out at $5.75 per head in benefit. There is a range across here, but anyone who is lambing earlier in the season and obviously with a longer growing season, you're obviously going to have higher condition on your use. So you will see greater finish as well on your lambs. I guess I just wanted to highlight that there is absolute financial benefit in there for producers in making the effort to scan for multiples. Look, and just quickly, I wanted to wrap up there. I know we're tight on time, but I did just want to flag that if there's anything here, say from the technologies that you've learned about today or best management practices that you want to try on farm, and you're a little bit worried that it's a bit risky to go out and maybe put it in place for the whole property. We've got a number of different initiatives that you can get involved with where you can get some support from MLA and other partners. So I'll just quickly talk you through them. We've got a new adoption initiative focused on sheep reproduction called Towards 90. This program is focused on achieving 90% survival rates in single and twin use. Now there'll be a series of focus farms, field days, training modules associated with this program. I've flagged the website there. Producers can jump on in and register their interest to participate. There will be a focus farm based out of Western Victoria which producers from this region would be very welcome to participate in. I also just wanted to flag that our producer demonstration sites program is open for applications at the moment. So if yourself and your neighbors are interested in trialing some of the new technologies on your own farm and learning together, why not come together and put together a project, make a submission by the 12th of May? We will offer up to $25,000 per project for you to trial that technology. So I just flagged that there. Even if you can't make this year's submission, we run this call every year. So even spending the next 12 months to work out what you might want to trial on farm and put a submission in for next year. We also offer our profitable grazing systems program. This is a series of training courses as well as one-on-one sessions with experts and advisors in the field. And these cover a whole range of areas including lifting lamb survival, meet the market, which is focused on practices you can put in place to improve your lambs making the process of requirements, also as well as pay to itself, a whole host of other programs there around what you can do with your pastures to improve the lightweight gain that you're getting from that. Finally, I also just wanted to flag the Australian Rule Innovations Lifetime Year Management course. Again, another great course, well-recognized for the practices that you can learn from that in how to implement getting the greatest gain from your sheep reproductive herds. I will pull it up there. I'm sorry, I've covered a lot of information. I just also wanted to include my contact details and also Andrew Morales who was meant to be speaking here today and you've had to deal with myself being here. Thank you.