Conference 1999

Invited Papers

• Major landscape issues and developments affecting the high rainfall southern zone of the Murray-Darling Basin - Don Blackmore
• Kyoto Greenhouse Agreement – an action agenda for the farming community - Ian Carruthers
• Recognising and managing landscape and pasture diversity - Peter Simpson
• Managing landscape diversity on a whole farm basis - Robert Lance
• Supplementation as a strategy for sheep and cattle producers - Geoff Robards
• Drought management of pasture, stock and people - David Mitchell
• PROGRAZE^TM and PROGRAZE PLUS^TM - Phil Graham
• On-farm implementation of PROGRAZE^TM and PROGRAZE PLUS^TM - Malcolm Peake
• Balancing off-site impacts of agriculture, community aspirations and economic reality - Anna Ridley, Ray Evans, Neil Barr and David Marsh
• The Acid Soil Action program for Southern NSW - Bill Schumann, Sari Glover
• Whole farm management of acid soils - Bruce Clements
• Living with and managing acid soils - Jim Elliot, George Elliot
• Pasture selection and management for water use - Geoff Beale
• Productive management of saline soils - Andrew Southwell
• Sown temperate pasture decline – fact or fiction - Keith Hutchinson, Kath King
• Managing native grass-based pastures for sustainability - John Fleming, Guy Robinson
• Developing and maintaining productive pastures - John Nixon

Contributed Papers

• Increasing earthworm diversity in temperate Australian pastures - Geoff Baker
• A survey of soil pH and exchangeable aluminium on the Northern Tablelands - Carol Harris, Mick Duncan
• Lime - Ten years topdressing - Bruce Clements, Graeme Kelso and Ian Vimpany
• Does chicory tolerate soil acidity? - Brett Upjohn, David Michalk
• Acid Soil Action in Northern NSW - Mick Duncan
• Growth response of Danthonia species to phosphorus fertiliser - Terry Bolger, Denys Garden
• Does superphosphate pay in a fine-wool enterprise? - Phillip Graham, Bruce Hazell
• Times are tough – should I be using superphosphate? - Richard Simpson, Phillip Graham and Bruce Hazell
• Is your rotation mining sulphur? - Cameron Tonkin
• Assisting farmers to select pasture varieties - Warren McDonald
• Persistence of perennial grass cultivars on the Northern Tablelands - Carol Harris, John Ayres and Jeff Lowien
• The new phalaris varieties, Holdfast, Landmaster, Atlas PG and Australian II: Where do they fit? - Rex Oram, Richard Culvenor
• Finding a persistent phalaris for the North West Slopes - Suzanne Boschma, Richard Culvenor
• The Native and Low Input Grasses Evaluation Network - MR Norton, RBD Whalley, MM Mitchell, T Craze, DA Friend, DL Garden, G Auricht, E Kobelt, P Sanford, C Waters and EA Koetz
• Perennial partnership required for productive pastures - Jim Scott
• Sustainable Grazing Systems naturalised pasture site at Carcoar - Warren King, David Kemp, Peter Dowling and David Michalk
• The Sustainable Grazing Systems Program on the Southern Tablelands and Monaro of NSW - Stuart Burge
• Lime-pasture-animal interaction: Northern Tablelands demonstration - Clare Bentley, Mick Duncan
• Use of glyphosphate as a replacement for Frenock® for the control of serrated tussock (Nasella trichotoma) - Malcolm Campbell
• Native grassland conservation in the rural landscape - David Eddy
• The potential for forage legumes on the tablelands/slopes - Kirrily Smith
• Effects of sowing rate and cultivar on lucerne dry matter yield and weed infestation during establishment - Harsharn Singh Grewal, Rex Williams
• Haymaker – efficient production of irrigated lucerne hay - Ian Collett, Lester McCormick

Travel Grant Report

• Report of study tour to USA, Mexico, Scotland (April 3 – May 17, 1999) - Hugh Dove
• Report on the 60th New Zealand Grassland Annual Conference Held at Nelson, NZ October 20-22 1998. Theme: ‘Nelson – a Pastoral Pallete’ - Haydn Lloyd Davies
• Report on the 39th Annual Conference of the Grassland Society of Victoria Held at Bendigo, 17-19 June 1998 - Haydn Lloyd Davies