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feedbase management

Managing complex systems

Preliminary findings from Grain & Graze 2003 to 2008

Grain & Graze aims to offer ideas and ways of thinking about complex issues. This report explores strategic matters of interest to mixed farmers, teasing out the options and exploring how they vary in different circumstances. It doesn’t seek to provide precise answers; it highlights issues and options to be considered and gives more insight into how they can be tackled by individuals seeking to develop solutions to their own unique set of circumstances. (more)...

Gary and Kerry Butcher - Pithara

Northern Agricultural Region Case Study

Delivering a land condition framework for grazing land management education

Rangelands ecosystems, on which pastoral enterprises are based, are relatively sensitive and damage through poor management can be very slow to reverse. Effective monitoring of land condition offers the hope that decline in land condition can be spotted and corrected at an early stage. As land managers come under increasing scrutiny from outside, monitoring can also offer a means of ‘proving’ good land management. However, monitoring is complex and time consuming. In this project, Dr (more)...