Conference 1992

"MANAGING SOILS FOR BETTER PASTURES – MANAGING PASTURES FOR BETTER SOILS"

Date: 8-9 JULY 1992
Location: Tamworth NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• Can you afford to keep your soil? - Robert Crouch
• Tackling salinity on the farm - Bill Barber
• Stabilising soils with pasture - Brian Murphy, Adrian Harte
• Summer grasses – where do they fit? - Peter Thompson
• Using summer and winter perennial pastures for soil improvement and profit - John Cull
• Using winter perennials for soil improvement and profit - Reg Simson
• Best bet fertiliser strategies – Part 2 - Graham Crocker
• Mixing farming and pastures - Ian Collett
• Practical use of improved pastures in crop rotations: A north west New South Wales experience - Robert Anderson
• Best bet fertiliser strategies – Part 1 - Robert Freebairn
• Reducing the guess work – soil testing - Graeme Blair
• A successful fertiliser strategy on the Slopes - Jim Clifton
• Thirty years of phosphate fertiliser application on a New England Tablelands grazing property - Edmund Wyndham, Alward Wyndham
• Fertilisers and the environment - Ian Vimpany
• Putting it altogether - Des Green
• Soil minerals and animal health - Jim Langlands
• Pastures, livestock and the bottom line - Graham Peart

Contributed Papers

• Spreading Scale Insects to Control Sifton Bush (Cassinia arcuata) and other Cassinia spp. - Malcolm Campbell
• Use of Roundup® (glyphosate) for Control of tussock Sedge (Carex appressa) - Malcolm Campbell, Barney Milne
• The Relationship between Pasture Yield and Height for Phalaris Pasture - David Kemp, Geoffrey Millar
• Herbage Quality of Two yearlong Green Native Grasses - Peter Simpson
• Establishment of Surface-Sown Pastures in Wheat Stubble in North Western New South Wales - Malcolm Campbell, Alison Bowman
• Pasture Response to Lime on Acid Sodic Soils - Colin Mullen
• Getting Value for the Wool Growers’ Research Dollar - Hugh Hamilton
• Species for Saline Soils on the Northern Tablelands - Desmond FitzGerald, Philip Fogarty
• The Impact of Grazing Interval on Production and Persistence of a Ryegrass/White Clover Pasture in the Subtropics - Bill Fulkerson, Katrina Slack
• Linking Soil, Pastures and Livestock in Pasture Management - Des Lang
• The yield Performance of White Clover Cultivars on the Northern Tablelands of NSW - John Ayres, Desmond FitzGerald
• Monitoring the Extent and Density of Woody Weeds in Western NSW - Maria Cofinas, Sharon Weir
• Using 100 years of Gunnedah Rainfall Records to Investigate the Role of Pasture in Reducing Water Table Recharge - Peter Hayman
• Evaluation of Perennial Grass Cultivars for the Northern Tablelands - Desmond FitzGerald, John Ayres and Jeff Lowien
• Some Effects and Risks of Manipulating a Native Pasture on the Central Tablelands of NSW - Bill Semple, Doug Waterhouse
• Native Grasses on the Farm – Hidden Treasures - Peter Dowling, Denys Garden
• Prime Pasture Project - Michael Keys
• Native Grass Pastures – Some Current Research on the Central and Southern Tablelands - Peter Dowling, Denys Garden, Peter Simpson and David Eddy
• Viability of Illyrian Thistle Seed Following Ingestion by Goats and Sheep - Cameron Allan