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Pasture Productivity

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)...

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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Woolgrowers and bushland biodiversity in high rainfall areas

Aimed at woolgrowers with native pastures in a mixed farming enterprise, particularly those in northern SA. Step-by-step approach to improving pasture productivity with a strong focus on monitoring, evaluation and grazing regimes.

Improved Seasonal Forecasts for Wool Producers in Western NSW

The western pastoral zone of NSW covers the area bound by Walgett in the north, Balranald in the south, Broken Hill in the west and Nyngan in the east. Since 1879, five extended droughts have caught many graziers in the region unprepared, resulting in major stock losses and sometimes irreparable land degradation. But through Improved Seasonal Forecasts for Wool Producers in Western NSW, some 330 woolgrowers were introduced to seasonal climate forecasts (more)...

Farm businesses, wool production and biodiversity

A survey of 1500 woolgrowers commissioned by Land, Water & Wool, found that more than half of Victoria’s woolgrowers have remnant native vegetation on their land. Many Victorian woolgrowers already manage their native pastures and vegetation to provide shelter and shade for stock, retain ground cover and reduce erosion, and improve the general health of their land.