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Broadacre: Pastoral

Farmers' use of sustainable management practices

ABARE report for the National Land and Water Resources Audit

This report presents the results from a survey of Australian broadacre farmers’ use of sustainable land management practices. The National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) commissioned ABARE to design and conduct a national survey to collect data on farmers’ adoption of specified natural resource management and business management practices. An understanding of land managers’ willingness and capacity to adopt (more)...

Rangelands 2008 - taking the pulse

This report, Rangelands 2008 - taking the pulse, is the first time that disparate datasets have been brought together at a national and regional scale to report change in Australia’s rangelands. The rangelands cover some 81 per cent of Australia and are p

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Improving seasonal forecasts for woolgrowers

a better climate for wool production

Improved climate forecasts which enable stocking rates to be better matched to feed availability are a priority for the longterm
sustainability and productivity of the wool industry. The Land, Water & Wool Managing Climate Variability subprogram is helpi

Improved Seasonal Conditions for Wool Producers in the Queensland Pastoral zone

Mileston 4 Final Report December 2004

Summarises Phase one of this project

SGSL Biodiversity Theme

Integrating the information from the SGSL National Research Sites

The complete analysis of the biodiversity data is made difficult by issues of scale. The SGSL Biodiversity Theme protocols were written to focus on measures of biodiversity at a plot scale. However, the way that salinity is manifested in the landscape means that salt-affected areas may or may not operate at a comparable scale. This is especially apparent in the NSW and VIC projects, where the strongly salt-affected areas (more)...

SGSL Grazing Theme

Summarises the research findings of this project.