Conference 1988

"BALANCING THE INPUTS"

Date: 30 JUNE & 1 JULY 1988
Location: Orange NSW

Table of contents

Contributed Papers

• Amending the soil: Farmer experience in the use of soil analysis - Max Mansfield
• Annual legumes: the persistence and productivity of subterranean clover and medics - Brian Dear
• A pasture/forage system for prime lamb production - Roger Garland
• Budgeting for investment in pasture improvement - David Vere, Anne Muir
• Current and future developments with perennial grasses - Kevin Reed
• Developments with perennial legumes - Warren McDonald
• Farm cheque – Bringing it all together - Tim Burfitt
• Farm performance of pasture grasses in the Southern Tablelands - Val Heffernan
• Grasses for other environments - John Read
• Improved pastures for beef cattle - John Brooker
• Pasture composition for meat, wool and milk production - Hugh Dove
• Practical experience with new lucerne cultivars for haymaking and grazing on irrigated beds - Martin Maynard, John Muir
• Producer experience of profit from pastures - Murray Branch
• Serradella – A species for sandy acid soils - Sam Stephens
• Soil and plant analysis as an aid to determining fertilizer needs - Ian Vimpany
• Using goats, sheep and cattle for weed control - Richard Arnott
• Weed control in pastures – The potential for biological control - Ernest Delfosse

Poster Summaries

• Beds – Beneficial for difficult soils - Penny Dunstan, John Muir
• Domestication of Curly Mitchell grass - Bill Bellotti
• Effect of irrigation frequency on white clover and lucerne - Maryanne Lattimore, John Thompson
• Establishment and development of aerially sown pastures on black earth soils near Coolah - Malcolm Campbell, Bob Freebairn
• Establishment of aerially sown pastures on cracking clay soils near Walgett - Malcolm Campbell, Bill Bellotti
• Evaluation of post-emergence herbicides for weed control in seedling phalaris pastures - Ross Watson, Neville Strachan and Mike Hill
• Leaf growth and growing point development in perennial ryegrass in winter - David Kemp, CF Eagles and MD Humphreys
• Seed coating – New management tool for pasture establishment - RG Northway
• Steer fattening trial, Glen Innes - Brett Riley
• The nutritional value of selected forage species in Western NSW - Sue Muir
• Use of Landsat by district advisory officers - Ken Dawbin, Keith McCloy and Sandra Hardy
• Yellow serradella - Tim Drew