Conference 2000

"IDENTIFYING PROFIT DRIVERS"

Date: 11-13 JULY 2000
Location: Armidale NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• Wool crisis in the pasture wonderland - Andrew Burgess
• Management strategies and attitudes to prosper in the new world of agriculture - John Chudleigh
• Prime lamb production from improved pastures - Rod Blomfield
• The “Triple P Program” - Charles de Fegely
• Nothing stays the same – the only real constant in our lives is change - Nancy Snow
• Fertophobia and beyond: an outsiders observations on current fertiliser practices on legume based pastures in NSW - Doug Edmeades
• Climate and agriculture – a producer’s perspective - Hugh Price
• Can graziers improve their management of climate risk? - Peter Hayman
• Growing fine wool for our future - Tony Gall
• Bald Blair Angus - Sam White
• Profit with the Meat Standards Australia Grading Scheme - Dale Krowes

Contributed Papers

• Potassium application affects leaf drop, common leaf spot disease and yield of lucerne - HS Grewal, R Williams
• Selective control of St Johns Wort with Starane® in a native grass pasture - MH Campbell, HI Nicol
• Subterranean clover and natural pastures boost cattle performance on the North West Slopes - BR McGufficke, I Long
• A pasture health kit developed by the SGS North-West Slopes producer group and NSW Agriculture - L McCormick, GM Lodge
• Towards a better understanding of changes in pasture species dynamics - GM Lodge
• Rate of deterioration of silage after feeding - DF Stanley, PJ Holst
• New temperate legumes for northern NSW - GJ Crocker, PD Moylan
• A review of 700 soil samples collected in the Armidale district between 1989 and 1999 - C Edwards, MR Duncan
• Effect of lime on pasture establishment and production in the Timor Area - CM Rose
• Feeds laboratory – supporting pasture research with nutritive value analysis - AD Turner, JF Ayres
• Grasslands NuSiral – a new white clover cultivar for dryand pastures - L Lane, JF Ayres. JR Caradus and PTP Clifford
• Maintaining soil organic carbon and crop yield with a clover ley - MR Norton, CA Harris
• Pasture Improvement for sustainability - Nowendoc Landcare Group
• Evaluation of tropical legumes in northern NSW - PD Moylan, GJ Crocker
• The effect of low rates of reactive phosphate rock or water soluble fertilisers on net returns from 2nd cross lamb production after 5 years - MJ Keys, B Clements and H Sinclair
• Legume pastures – the profit drivers of ley farms in central-western NSW - EA Roesner
• The role of shelterbelts in grazing systems in the New England Tablelands: impacts on earthworm composition and abundance - LA Lobry de Bruyn, AE Po
• Fine tuning the timing of lambing in spring: is it profitable - K Behrendt, A Stefanski and EM Salmon