Conference 1995

"PASTURE STRATEGIES TO TARGET SPECIFIC MARKETS"

Date: 12-13 JULY 1995
Location: Armidale NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• The New South Wales pasture base - Ken Archer
• “How to become kings in grass castles” - Graham Peart
• Lift your grazing profits by copying the best - Michael Boyce
• Fertiliser requirements of grazed pastures - MR Duncan
• Managing pastures for a mixed sheep/cattle enterprise - Colin Frost, Margaret Frost
• Managing pastures for lamb production - Robert Gordon
• The role of grazing management in sustaining the pasture community - Greg Lodge
• Selecting the right pastures to meet the market - Warren McDonald, Alan Bell
• Managing the feed-year for beef production - Allan Every
• Integrated enterprises on a temperate pasture system - Maroun Stephen
• Pasture management for milk production - Peter Notman
• Integrated enterprises on a summer pasture system - Jock Coupland
• Integrated livestock and cropping enterprises - JH Price

Contributed Papers

• Impact of drought on survival of pasture species - RD FitzGerald, CA Harris and JF Ayres
• Tall fescue improvement in Australia - RD FitzGerald, S Venkatanagappa and LA Lane
• Microlaena persistence, protein and productivity in comparison with Danthonia and four introduced grass species - Christines Jones, Michelle Murphy
• Vacuum harvesting of the native grass Microlaena stipoides - Michelle Murphy
• Consol lovegrass and Premier digit grass best on acidic soils - RD Freebairn
• White clover germplasm development - Leah Lane, Zulfi Jahufer and John Ayres
• White clover breeding for dryland pastures - John Ayres, John Caradus, Leah Lane and Bob Murison
• Domestication of Mitchell grass (Astrebla) - CM Waters, D Munnich
• Tall fescue agronomy research - RD FitzGerald, S Venkatanagappa and LA Lane
• Impact of time control grazing on native pastures - B Randall, C Randall, L McCormick and G Lodge
• Improving lotus persistence through breeding & management - Martin Blumenthal, Walter Kelman, Zvi Hochman and John Ayres
• Species contribution to pasture biomass under different grazing systems - Judi Earl, Christine Jones
• Effect of grazing management on barley grass pastures - GE Robards, M Dalglish and T Luders
• Effect of grazing management on growth rates of lambs grazing barley grass pastures in south-west NSW - GE Robards, TA Luders and N Corliss
• Yield of perennial grasses under different drought and grazing intensities during spring and summer - SP Boschma, JM Scott and GG Rapp
• Seed dispersal by sheep of Chilean needle grass (Nassella neesiana) - MR Gardener, RDB Whalley
• Native pasture management in the Hunter Valley - Richard Marshall, Neil Nelson
• Backgrounding feeder cattle - Ross Dicker, John Ayres, Bob Murison, Clair Alston, Dorothy Robinson, Arnold Turner, Peter Kamphorst, Bob Dent, Jeff Lowien and Phil Dawes
• A comparison of nutritive value of chenopods from NSW & WA - GE Robards, R Egerton-Warburton
• Quality and selection of plant components of subterranean clover - JG Mulholland, KS Nandra, GB Scott and A Jones
• Management of African lovegrass - Rod Dowe, Vic Johnston, Jeff Lowien and Bob Dent
• Supplementation of lambs on lucerne pasture with oaten hay - Peter Holst, David Hall and David Stanley
• Diet composition of sheep & cattle grazing Microlaena-ryegrass pastures - RDB Whalley, MR Gardener
• What does dairy pasture cost? - Neil Griffiths
• Summer forage quality and lamb growth in the northern rainfall zone - D Paull, J Smith and A Allsop
• Utilisation of African lovegrass - Vic Johnston, Rod Dowe, Bob Dent and Jeff Lowien
• Fertiliser protects your soil by increasing ground cover - Graham Crocker
• Clover ley pasture maintains soil nitrogen and crop yield - Mark Norton
• Comparison of water use by grazed grasslands and remnant Callitris woodlands during drought - Philip Eberbach
• Patterns of earthworm abundance in improved pastures at Chiswick - LA Lobry de Bruyn, KL King
• Use of ammonium nitrate Nitram® and urea as herbicides for the control of St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) - MH Campbell
• Use of glyphosate and paraquat (Gramoxone®) to stop seedhead production of serrated tussock (Nasella trichotoma) - MH Campbell
• Using the alkane technique to quantify sheep selectivity when grazing perennial and annual pastures - Chen Wen, Rod Lefroy, Anne White and Jim Scott
• No-till pasture establishment by Soilflow seeding - Lester Thearle
• Low-cost manual equipment for sampling the soil profile - DR Wilkinson, G Burke
• Perennial grass species vary in resistance to invasion of hairy panic - Jim Virgona, Annabel Hill
• Emergence of African lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) and several native grasses on the northern tablelands of NSW - Steven Smith, Brian Sindel
• Stocking rate affects soil moisture under pasture - KL Greenwood, KJ Hutchinson, DA MacLeod and JM Scott
• The effect of stock exclusion and herbicide application on seed rain in a degrading phalaris stand - Annabel Hill, Jim Virgona
• Rhizome development of defoliated Grassland Maku - CA Harris, MJ Blumenthal