Conference 1987

"ESTABLISHMENT AND RENOVATION OF PASTURES – TODAY AND TOMORROW"

Date: 23-24 JULY 1987
Location: Orange NSW

Table of contents

Contributed Papers

• Conference overview – from seed to success - Ray Ison
• Establishing feed for dairy cows on the Coast - Elizabeth Kernohan
• Establishing tagasaste (tree lucerne) and other fodder trees – guidelines for success - Paul Dann
• From weeds of high fertility to productive pastures - John Brooker
• Improving pastures and production with grazing management – a practical viewpoint - Colin Fitzhardinge
• Improving poa tussock infested hill country - Craig Kelehear
• Machinery for sowing and renovation – how good is it? - Allan Murphy
• Maintaining and renovating pastures using spray-graze and spray-topping - John Miller
• Making pasture establishment pay – it’s the bottom line that counts - Mick Townsend
• Making use of natural regeneration of native and improved pastures - Greg Lodge
• Managing the establishing pasture – An essential step - Peter Cregan
• Renovating and establishing perennial pastures on the Tablelands - Robert Gordon
• Seed treatment – An aid to pasture establishment - Malcolm Campbell
• Successful establishment in the wheat belt - Dick Ord
• Using fertiliser to best advantage – what when where and how much? - Michael Duncan

Poster Summaries

• Aerial pasture seeding into summer crops - John Betts, Greg Fenton
• Competitive clovers - Alison Bowman, Gordon King
• Concord ryegrass - Stuart Mitchell
• Controlled grazing systems - John Colless
• Effect of soil salinisation and waterlogging on irrigated dairy production - David Marston, Kathy Pope
• Establishment of pasture legumes on red-brown earths - Martin Blumenthal, Anne Miller, Damian Courtier and Ray Ison
• Evaluation of seed production of Kenya clover in the Lachlan Valley, NSW - Ian Fletcher, Ray Ison and Alan Andrews
• Growing lucerne for seed - Kevin Morthorpe
• Seed coatings to aid pasture establishment - Jim Scott
• Seed Testing laboratory - Nena Panich