Conference 1998

Invited Papers

• Processing and Farming – do they work together? - Peter MacSmith
• Challenge to Traditional Thinking - Alec Thompson
• Pasture Improvement – Expensive Indulgence or economic necessity - Cyril Wills
• Management and Marketing Strategies for Profitable Grazing - Robert Stanbridge
• What Should We Use From The New Zealand Pastoral Industry - Rob Eccles
• Effects of fertiliser and grazing management on pastures, animal productivity and profitability - Geoffrey Saul
• Producing low cost milk from pastures - Andrew Bruem
• Can the soil phosphorus bank be unlocked by plants? - Alan E Richardson
• Farm business management - Robert Patterson
• Perennial Pastures in the Cropping System - Neville Thompson
• Limitations to increasing nutrient supply from forages - DP Poppi, SR McLennan
• Genetic improvement of feed conversion in beef cattle - Jonathon Wright
• Kareela Wool – The product at the end of the line - Mary Hall

Contributed Papers

• Effects of sowing depth and time on the emergence of perennial subtropical grasses - KC Motley
• Studies on the Establishment and Early Persistence of Six Native Grasses on the Central Tablelands - R Stitt, B Baldwin, P Dowling
• The effect on wool production of adding Super to a native pasture - Phil Graham, Martin Williams and Roger Garnsey
• The effect of high and low rates of reactive phosphate rock or water soluble fertilisers on net returns from 2nd cross lamb production - Bruce Clements, Michael Keys, Martin Williams and Howard Sinclair
• Phosphorus availability in natural and improved pasture under long-term grazing - Belinda Hackney, Kathy King and Donald MacLeod
• Effect of fertiliser and pasture improvement on soil pH on Northern Tablelands NSW soils - MR Duncan, GJ Crocker
• Effect of lime rate on lucerne persistence and productivity - CL Mullen
• Effect of Canberra sewage ash on soil pH and cadmium levels - Peter Simpson, Mark Whatmuff
• Filling the winter feed-gap: Autumn oversowing of a kikuyu (Pennisetum clandestinum) dominant sward in the Sydney Metropolitan region - SM Johnston, AC Andrews
• Persistence of Caucasian Clover (Trifolium ambiguum) on the Monaro - Stuart Burge, Linda Ayres, John Booth and Helen Nicol
• Farmer Experience with Chicory on the Central Tablelands and Slopes of NSW - M Parker, DR Kemp
• Tall fescue ecotype collection on the Northern Tablelands of NSW - CA Harris
• Evaluation of meat production from improved tall fescue cultivars - G Milne, F Johnson and H Eisenhauer
• Irrigated lucerne in the south – What’s new? - Mary-Anne Lattimore, Sam Lolicato
• Planning pastures for horses - WM Wheatley, JL Stallard and RA Woodward
• Chilean needle grass (Nassella neesiana) management options - Jeff Lowien, Mark Gardener and Archie Cameron
• Use of low rates of herbicides to control serrated tussock, African lovegrass and St. John’s wort in NSW - MH Campbell
• Competitive Pastures for Giant Parramatta Grass - DI Officer, TE Launders
• A survey of lucerne establishment in southern NSW - Eric Koetz, Mark Norton

Travel Grant Report

• Report on Grassland Society of NSW funded study tour to Western Australia – April 4 to 11, 1998 - RD Freebairn