Conference 1997

"PASTURES UNDER ADVERSE CONDITIONS"

Date: 28-30 JULY 1997
Location: Dubbo NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• The benefits of a pasture ley in cereal cropping - Errol Weston, Ram Dalal, Wayne Strong and John Lehane
• Perennial pastures in the whole farm system - Scott Chambers
• Nitrogen fixation by pastures in dryland farming systems - Mark Peoples, Robert Gault, John Angus, Alison Bowman, John Brockwell, David Kemp, Matthew McCallum, John Paul, Paul Quigley, Penny Riffkin, Glen Scammell and Ted Wolfe
• Using lucerne in a cereal cropping system - Peter O’Brien
• Pastures for acid soils in the north and central west - RD Freebairn, CL Mullen and BA Mathews
• Temperate pastures on acid soils – Does liming pay? - Robert Sutherland
• Plants to modify the water table – The potential of native grasses to reduce recharge - Meredith Mitchell, Craig Clifton, Bill Johnston and Ian Cole
• Plants to modify the water table – The role of shrubs and woody forbs - Peter Milthorpe, IH Hume, DC Mitchell, and MC Yee
• Using saltbush and other plants on saline soils - John Grieg
• The cost of establishing a good pasture – Part A - Bruce Watt
• The cost of establishing a good pasture – Part B - Haydon Wass
• The economic returns from pasture development - Greg O’Brien
• What to do and where to go for financial assistance for pasture development - Clive Sefton
• Grazing to manage natural grasslands - Richard Silcock, Peter Martin
• Lending for pasture establishment and improvement - Jon Blissett
• Managing perennial grasses for livestock production - Peter Weston
• Grazing systems in practice - Bill Waugh
• Harvesting and sowing native grasses - Ian Cole, Cathy Waters

Contributed Papers

• Niche potential and forage value of Elymus scaber var. scaber on the Northern Tablelands - Michelle Murphy
• Bothriochloa macra, B. biloba, why is one common and the other rare? – Some embryological evidence - P Yu, N Prakash and RDB Whalley
• Germination response of Glycine tabacina to temperature and light - BE Heard, RDB Whalley
• Natural grasslands on slopes of the Garrawillie Creek subcatchment, Liverpool plains, New South Wales - JM Bean, RDB Whalley
• Persistence of native and introduced perennial grasses on an acid soil - Peter Simpson
• Glycine latifolia – A native legume with potential - GT McIntosh, AM Bowman and RS Jessop
• Evaluation of white clover cultivars for dryland pastures in northern NSW - LA Lane, JF Ayres, JR Caradus and RD Murison
• Drought recovery of temperate perennial pastures on the northern tablelands - JF Ayres, AD Turner and PG Kamphorst
• Persistence of sown pastures legumes under grazing in north eastern New South Wales - AM Bowman, GPH Wilson
• Pasture composition survey of southern NSW - Annabel Bowcher, Jim Virgona
• Establishment of surface-sown perennial grasses on the north western plains of New South Wales - MH Campbell, AM Bowman
• Evaluation of landholders’ attitudes towards perennial pasture systems in southern NSW and the role of Consol lovegrass - D Brown, G Jackson, A Andrews and W Johnston
• Breeding phalaris for better survival under adverse conditions - RA Culvenor, WM Kelman and RN Oram
• Survival of phalaris cultivars through the 1994 drought at Canberra - RA Culvenor
• Productive pastures and the CRC for Weed Management Systems - Ursula Taylor
• Spot treatment of blue heliotrope with Graslan® - John Unwin
• Reactive phosphate rock: an effective fertiliser for NSW pastures? - PWG Sale, D Garden
• The performance of set-stocked pastures on the northern tablelands of NSW through severe drought - CA Harris, JF Ayres
• Practical grazing management for lucerne in NSW western wheat belt - RB Thompson, GJ Kemister
• How can graziers manage perennial grasses to survive through drought - JM Scott, SP Boschma and GG Rapp
• Using seasonal rainfall probabilities to predict drought risk - Anthony Casanova
• The benefits of increasing defoliation interval - Judi Earl
• Management aids for rangeland pastoralists - Ruth Maxey, Lori McGarva
• The role of farmer knowledge in developing sustainable pasture and grazing systems - Joanne Millar, Allan Curtis
• A comparison between ‘sudden death’ poisoning in sheep grazing phalaris pastures, at Dubbo, Naracoorte and Esperance - CA Bourke
• The association of soil cobalt with the incidence of phalaris ‘staggers’ on phalaris pastures in central NSW - CA Bourke
• The biosolids revolution - Cathy Bruce, Roger Patricks