Conference 2001

"FROM FEAST TO FAMINE: BALANCING THE PASTURE FEED SUPPLY"

Date: 25 JULY 2001
Location: Gundagai NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• Addressing Low Productivity of Grazing Farms - D Sackett
• Successful adoption of change in a wool enterprise - R Strong
• Tools to help balance the pasture feed supply - G Meaker
• Putting the tools into practice – Beef - R Purcell
• Putting the tools into practice – Wool - C Sheahan
• Putting the tools into practice – Lamb - AJ Lehmann
• Benchmarking the High Performance Pasture system with producers - M Monk
• The importance of feed quality to animal performance - H Oddy, C Allan
• Resource Management – Managing what we have - G Houston
• Making Better Grazing Decisions - J O’Sullivan

Poster Summaries

• Chicory: The ‘Lucerne’ of Acid Soils - Brett Upjohn, Lori McGarva
• Control of serrated tussock by applying flupropanate at 3- or 10-year intervals - MH Campbell, DT Vere and HI Nicol
• Effect of lime and/or superphosphate on the profitability of a grazing enterprise - SJ Martin, KM Condon
• Effect of lime on pH of a granite soil on the Northern Tablelands of NSW - C Harris, M Duncan
• Estimating production risk for a grazing lease using GrassGro™ - L Salmon, R Simpson, G Burbidge, J Donnelly and A Stefanski
• Fertilising Native Pastures - M Keys
• Gland clover – a new insect resistant legume - BS Dear, GA Sandral, B Nutt, B Wilson, C Rodham and J Taylor
• Grazing management and soil fertility effects on pasture quality - H Frame, L Warn and G McLarty
• Helping graziers manage soil & landscape variability - M Keys, W Schumann
• Lime influences pasture quality on the Northern Tablelands of NSW - C Harris, M Duncan
• Long term lime effect on stocking rate on acid soils in South West Slopes NSW - GD Li, KR Helyar, RP Fisher, LJC Castleman, MC Wilson and MD Conyers
• Low density sowing can increase lucerne dry matter production - EA Roesner
• Perennial grass evaluation for southern mixed farming systems - MR Norton, EA Koetz and G Stewart
• Soil acidity and phosphorus levels of permanent pasture paddocks on the southern and central tablelands of NSW - WG Schumann
• Soil fertility and acidification in irrigated pastures in the Upper Hunter - N Nelson, J Christie
• Towards improving the efficiency of fertiliser use in variable landscapes - B Hackney, J Virgona
• Urana – a new highly winter active subterranean clover - GA Sandral, BS Dear, P Nichols, B Wilson, C Rodham and J Taylor
• USA lucerne study tour - M Lattimore
• Weed survey of the perennial pasture one of New South Wales - J Dellow, G Wilson, W King and B Auld
• Your pasture paddocks. How variable are they? - B Hackney, J Virgona