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Northern Talbelands Project Fact Sheet: 11

The Land, Water and Wool Northern Tablelands Project (NSW) aims to raise awareness of the importance and value of biodiversity to the wool industry, demonstrate the many ways in which biodiversity drives profitable production on New England wool propertie

A summary, in poster form, of all the 70 SGSL Producer sites in Western Australia

SGSL Producer Network WA

Sustainable Grazing on Saline Lands (SGSL) Producer Network was set up to help livestock producers better understand and manage their saline land through a range of activities. This book contains a complete summary, in poster form, of all 70 SGSL grower trials in WA. T hese posters were prepared and presented at the 2004 SGSL spring field days and represent each of the (more)...

Arboreal Marsupials on New England wool properties

Northern Tablelands Project Fact Sheet: 3

Arboreal marsupials are possums, gliders and their relatives, which live mainly in tree canopies. They fulfill an important role in farmland timber - the natural control of dieback-causing insects and parasitic mistletoes.

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Are my waterways in good condition?

When you walk along your stream or creek bank it is often hard to know what to look at to assess whether your waterway is healthy. This quick and easy checklist will help you to work out the health of the streams or creeks running through your property by

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Barking up the Right Tree

This brochure provides information for Victorian woolgrowers with hill country, however is still valuable to anyone interested in management options for meeting biodiversity and production outcomes in a whole farm context. Covers topics of deferred graz

Bats on New England wool properties

Northern Tablelands Project Fact Sheet: 2

Small, insect eating bats (‘microbats’) fulfill an important role on wool properties, that of natural pest control. Microbats eat a wide range of invertebrates, predominantly moths, beetles and bugs, with some species also consuming mosquitoes and grasshopppers.

Best Practice Survey : Natural resource management & Australian wool growers

This large-scale project conducted by Land Water & Wool used surveys, focus groups and interviews to determine the attitudes, practices and needs of natural resource management of Australian wool growers.

This booklet reports the key findings in the

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Betting on rain

A guide to seasonal forecasting in Western NSW

Betting on Rain draws together basic information on weather and climate systems, and recent research on the development and application of seasonal risk assessment tools, in the specific context of western NSW. The guide provides both informative insights into the factors that determine regional weather patterns and practical tools that will allow landholders to utilise what predictability does exist to improve management decision making. The research team worked (more)...

Biodiversity and Wool Production- Answers to the 10 Big Questions

Northern Tablelands Project Fact Sheet: 9

Early in the Land Water and Wool (LWW) Northern Tablelands Project (NSW), local woolgrowers developed a list of ten critical issues they wanted answered, about wool production and biodiversity. These ten issues are pivotal to profitable, biodiverse wool

Birds on New England Wool Properties

Northern Tablelands Project Fact Sheet: 1

Twenty species of woodland bird have been identified that are destined for extinction in the NSW wheat-sheep belt, where little habitat remains (Reid 1999). We found ten of these species on New England wool properties between 2002 and 2005.

Breeding Forage Plants in the Genome Era

Forage plant breeding has been largely based on phenotypic selection following sexual recombination of natural genetic variation found between and within ecotypes. Advances in plant genetic manipulation over the last 15 years have provided convincing evidence that these powerful technologies can complement and enhance plant breeding programs. Significant progress in the establishment of the methodologies required for the molecular breeding of forage plants has been made. Examples of current (more)...

Climate risk seasonal outlook

Pocket guide for wool producers in the pastoral rangelands of South Australia

A tool for wool producers in the pastoral rangeland of South Australia to determine climate risks and seasonal outlook.

Competitor Trends in 2029

This briefing provides a glimpse into the evolution of fibre dynamics and volumetrics over the next two and a half decades. Relative fibre prices, regional fibre availability, economic development and industrial and trade policies, lifestyles, consumer / cultural fibre preferences, fibre performance, fibre and textile engineering, environmental constraints and fibre / brand marketing; these are just some of the factors that shape supply and demand for all fibres and influence choice between fibres from (more)...

Conversations about climate

Seasonal variability and graziers decisions in the eastern rangelands

Provides an insight into survey of 70 pastoral families about how they use and access information for climate risk management.

Does grazing perennial pastures on saline land affect farm salt and water balances?

SGSL Salt and Water Movement Theme

This document presents the key findings of the Salt and Water Movement Theme of the Sustainable Grazing on Saline Land (SGSL) program, funded by Land Water and Wool, Land and Water Australia, Australian Wool Innovations Ltd., CSIRO, and the CRC for Plant Based Management of Saline Land. The material is based on the ain results of the experiments conducted at five sites within the SGSL program, but (more)...

Drafting Gate

On-line information and decision-support tool

Australia is the driest inhabited continent and has the most variable climate in the world.

Climate variability is the fluctuation of the seasons and understanding how the climate varies is critical to better grazing management.

The Climate Risk Management Drafting Gate will help farmers and graziers factor seasonal climate forecasts into their management decisions.

Economics and the Environment: not Mutually Exclusive!

Northern Tablelands Project Fact Sheet: 8

Between 2004 and 2005 , the Land, Water and Wool Northern Tablelands Project (NSW) collected paddock, production and financial information from 21 Monitor farms. The farms varied in grazing management, input levels, target markets and family goals. Based

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Enhanced profitability, productivity and positive outcomes for wool producers throughout Australia’s pastoral zone

This booklet provides information for those who want a general and quick overview of what programs have been conducted to improve outcomes for wool producers in Australia’s pastoral zone. The program _Managing Pastoral Country_ worked with woolgrowers t