Conference 1996

Invited Papers

• Can big energy users survive in low nutrient ecosystems - Tim Flannery
• Riverina grasslands – A personal history - Martin Driver
• The Pooginook story – A fundamental change in decision making - David Taylor
• Development of native perennial grasses for grazing - Bill Johnston
• Thinking holistically on the saltbush plains - Mark Rowe
• Grazing by numbers makes lucerne last - Rex Williams
• Pastures that work in lower rainfall areas - John Daunt
• Twenty years of lucerne management - Bernard Hart
• How plant physiology can help us achieve better grazing management - Richard Simpson, Stephen Clark, Doug Alcock, Mike Freer, John Donnelly and Andrew Moore
• How can I make my pastures more profitable - Grant Burbidge
• Perennial pastures in a crop-ley farming system – A personal perspective - Don Dyce
• Dung beetles: past, present and future - John Feehan
• Integrated management of red legged earth mite in pastures - David James
• Why I am sowing chicory - Don Kirkpatrick
• Grassland management in NSW: The evolution of an approach - Ian Garrard
• What is a native grassland? - John Benson
• SEPP 46 dealing with the broader community’s expectations: A grazier’s perspective - Jim Litchfield

Contributed Papers

• Sowing depth and emergence of seedlings of Microlaena stipoides - RDB Whalley, DJ Beckers
• Herbage yield of some native perennial grasses - David Eddy, Denys Garden
• Forage quality of some native perennial grasses - David Eddy, Denys Garden
• A comparison of herbage production of a range of Danthonia spp. - David Eddy, Denys Garden
• Methods of establishing trees on non-arable land to control weeds - MH Campbell, HI Nicol
• A comparison of the performance of softseeded and hardseeded subterranean clover cultivars prior to and after the drought of 1994 - GA Sandral, BS Dear
• Farmer best management practices for lucerne in 350-450 mm rainfall zone - J Whiteley, M Lattimore, R Thompson, G Kemister and P Lukins
• Annual grass control in seeding phalaris and cocksfoot - BS Dear, GA Sandral
• The effect of pre-emergent herbicides on perennial grass seedlings - GA Sandral, BS Dear
• The competitive performance of a weed with introduced grasses in acid soils - BB Rubzen, EC Wolfe and KR Helyar
• Consol lovegrass outcompetes spiny burr grass - Robert Freebairn, Bryan Matthews
• The tolerance of common weeds and native grasses to acid soils - BB Rubzen, EC Wolfe and KR Helyar
• The distribution and significance of saffron thistle (Carthamus lanatus) in NSW - NS Crump, CJ Ash and A Nikandrow
• Tolerance of native grasses to Frenock® and Roundup® - MH Campbell, R Van de Ven
• Glyphosate resistance in annual ryegrass - Jim Pratley, Peter Baines, Phillip Eberbach, Maurice Incerti and John Broster
• Preliminary survey of the incidence of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) staggers in central tablelands of NSW - Warwick Wheatley
• Phytophthora root rot, spotted clover aphids and phosphorus deficiency limit growth of irrigated subterranean clover - Gordon Murray, Kerry Wratten and Wendy Milne
• Using satellite imagery to achieve more efficient fertiliser use in Central & Southern Tablelands pastures in NSW - John Crichton, Ian McGowen
• The response of a phalaris-based pasture to nitrogen fertilisation - JM Virgona, A Oates
• Changes in plant frequency within a grazed pasture under ten different fertiliser regimes - RD FitzGerald, BR McGufficke
• Critical parameters for monitoring annual leys - JA Paul, EC Wolfe and PD Cregan
• Grazing strategies to get more out of Coolatai grass - LH McCormick, GM Lodge
• Managing perennial pastures - Mike Keys, Mike Darby
• Some characteristics of summer-growing (C4) perennial grass patches that occur in improved pasture - Annabel Bowcher, Jim Virgona
• Improving Lotus persistence through management: site establishment - Martin Blumenthal, John O’Connor, John Ayres,Leah Lane, Zvi Hochman and Jim Hindmarsh
• The temperate pasture sustainability key program: gathering the knowledge and skills to implement grazing management strategies - GM Lodge
• The persistence of introduced pasture species through severe drought on the northern tablelands of NSW - JF Ayres, AD Turner and PG Kamphorst
• Fescue for meat project - Frank Johnson, Gavin Milne and Tony Stratton
• The estimation of biomass by a rod-point method - JA Paul, EC Wolfe and PD Cregan

Travel Grant Report

• Report on travel grant to attend the Fifteenth Asian-Pacific Weed Society Conference in Tsukuba, Japan, 24-28 July 1995 - Peter Dowling