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Persian Clover

Productive and Sustainable Salt Tolerant Pastures for South Australia and Victoria

This project looked at tall wheatgrass-based pastures as an option for saline land. The investigation covered pasture and animal productivity, biodiversity impacts, soil and water environment, and economic analysis. Project activity was focussed on a grazing experiment located on a 20-hectare area of saline land near Dunkeld in western Victoria. Experimental treatments were (i) a volunteer control, (ii) commercially available cultivars (Dundas tall wheatgrass, Persian clover, Balansa clover (more)...

Self-Help Ethos Attracts Saltland Research to Tammin

This project is now complete. FOR most of the 1990s, saltbush was regarded by many as worthless for sheep feed, even though it was one of the few plants able to tolerate high levels of salt. But Tammin farmer and wool grower Tony York was one of a small band who believed it was part of the solution to living with salinity and continued to plant it. This ‘self-help’ ethos among a group of local WA wheatbelt farmers has led (more)...