Wheat

Wheat and sheep production in a changing climate: Western Australia

Australia’s wheat - sheep production zone covers 35 million hectares in southern and eastern Australia. Its 15 700 wool-producing farms contain 55% of the nation’s sheep. Annual rainfall in the zone is 300–600 mm. Climate change threatens the productivity of Australia’s wheat and sheep industries. It reduces the value of historical climate knowledge and increases uncertainty about the bounds of future climates, making farm decisions more complex. While (more)...

Wheat and sheep production in a changing climate: western Victoria

Australia’s wheat-sheep production zone covers 35 million hectares in southern and eastern Australia. Its 15 700 wool-producing farms contain 55% of the nation’s sheep. Annual rainfall in the zone is 300–600 mm. Climate change threatens the productivity of Australia’s wheat and sheep industries. It reduces the value of historical climate knowledge and increases uncertainty about the bounds of future climates, making farming decisions more complex. While (more)...

Land Water and Wool Case Study: Melissa Rebbeck, SARDI

Farming in the first decade of the 21st century in Australia is as challenging now as it was 100 years ago, but the grab-bag of tools that help farmers manage for drought and flood is growing. South Australian wool, wheat and barley growers Susan and Ben Carn are making the most of these tools. They farm 8000 hectares running 4000 to 5000 sheep in a low rainfall area at Quorn, north of the infamous Goyder’s Line of Rainfall, the demarcation established in 1865 above which anything (more)...

Border Rivers Grain and Graze Case Study: Kioma

Simulating the options of sacrificial grazing of crops – wheat in the sub-tropical cereal-growing regions

Sacrificial grazing wheat – a cross-regional simulation

Low risk farming in a variable climate

Alan and Joy Heitman - Mingenew

Rob and Sally McTaggart - Mingenew