Awards & Publications

Recent Awards & Grants

Don Menzies has been fortunate to have received the following awards and grants throughout his recent career.

Grants

2019 - Meat & Livestock Australia research grant for the "Calf48Hr - determining causes of perinatal calf loss" project. 3 year project with a total budget of $723,000

2019 - Central Life Sciences research grant for the "Beef Cattle Field Trial for Buffalo Fly control in Australia" project. 1 year project.

Awards

2014 - The Future Farmers Network Award: Best presentation, Agricultural Futures - Digital Rural Futures conference.

2013 - Telstra sponsored PhD scholarship $25,000 per year for 3 years

2013 - Meat & Livestock Australia PhD Top-up scholarship $10,000 per year for 3 years

Summary of Publications

Don has been involved in numerous research projects including the completion of a PhD. Please find below a selection of recent publications:

Stephen, CP, Norman, S, Swain, DL, Menzies, D, Corbet, NJ, Patison, KP (2018) Remote calving alert for beef cattle – Technology Development (Phase 3). Meat & Livestock Australia Final Report. https://www.mla.com.au/research-and-development/reports/2018/remote-calving-alert-for-beef-cattle/

Menzies, D., Patison, K. P., Corbet, N.J., & Swain, D. L. (2017). Using Walk-over-Weighing technology for parturition date determination in beef cattle. Animal Production Science 58(9) 1743-1750 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN16694

Menzies, D., Patison, K. P., Corbet, N.J., & Swain, D. L. (2017). Using temporal associations to determine maternal parentage in extensive beef herds. Animal Production Science 58(5) 943-949 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN16450

Menzies, D., Patison, K. P., Fox, D. R., & Swain, D. L. (2016). A scoping study to assess the precision of an automated radiolocation animal tracking system. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 124, 175-183.

McGowan, M, McCosker, KD, Fordyce, G, Smith, DR, O'Rourke, P, Perkins, N, Barnes, T, Marquart, L, Morton, J, Newsome, T, Menzies, D (2014b) North Australian beef fertility project: CashCow. Meat & Livestock Australia Available at http://www.mla.com.au/research-and-development/search-rd-reports/final-report-details/productivity-on-farm/northern-australian-beef-fertility-project-cashcow/370.