Conference 2003

"GRASSLAND FARMING – ROCKET SCIENCE"

Date: 11-13 JUNE 2003
Location: Albury NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• Monitoring grasslands from outer space: is the pixel replacing the quadrat? - Kevin P Price
• Satellites and Australia - Alex Held, Michael J Hill
• Using new technologies to map the suitability of forage plants - David Hannaway, KJ Hannaway, C Daly and D Chapman
• The value proposition for remotely sensed estimates of feed on offer and pasture growth rate - Stephen Gherardi, Chris Oldham
• My experience with satellite predicted estimates of feed on offer and pasture growth rates - Roger House
• Sustainable Grazing Systems: experimental results and the implications for temperate-zone grazing enterprises - Warren King, David Michalk, Peter Dowling, David Kemp and Paul Sanford
• Sharing dairy industry research for all grassland farmers - Dawn Dalley
• Acid soils: what have we learned from research? - Brendan J Scott
• What are the management strategies for preventing dryland salinity? Summary of the current state of the sciences - Hamish Cresswell, Pauline English
• Management of novel-endophyte ryegrass pastures - Stephanie Bluett
• Salt mapping in the Billabong Creek catchment, New South Wales - PA Baker, GL Jones
• Integrating woody perennial forages into farming systems - Peter Milthorpe
• The role of silage in lamb-finishing systems - David Stanley
• Mileage from silage: latest advances with silage for beef cattle - Ed Charmley
• Management and breeding strategies for improved forage quality - Anthony van Herwaarden, Michael Faulkner
• Managing saline groundwater for production and environmental benefits - John Ive

Poster Summaries

• Getting the best out of every paddock on your farm - Richard Simpson, Libby Salmon, David Marshall, Adam Stefanski and Grant Burbidge
• Bull beef: production per head or per hectare? - Libby Salmon, Colin Frawley, Jill Frawley, Graham Lean and John Donnelly
• Delivery of decision-support tools over the Internet to increase the wealth of grazing enterprises - HG Daily, JM Scott and JM Reid
• CropView: satellite crop monitoring - Jonathan Sobels, Petina Pert
• Roadside vegetation mapping in the Rural City of Wangaratta - Andrew Briggs
• Mapping weed infestations using satellite imagery - Ian McGowen, Paul Frazier and Peter Orchard
• Lime quality: size does matter! - Bill Schumann, John Lacy
• Effects of lime on quality and mineral composition of perennial grasses - Bill Schumann, Mike Keys
• Lime beefs up steer production - Mick Duncan, Georgina Mitchell
• Prime lamb production from adjacent monocultures of grass and clover - Karen Venning, Andrew Thompson, Andrew Kennedy and David Chapman
• Increasing pasture and wool production from native pastures - TP Bolger, DL Garden and BM Reid
• High-performance pasture systems to increase lamb production in southwest Victoria - Andrew Kennedy, Andrew Thompson, Clare Gloag and Karen Venning
• Effect of grazing management and fertiliser regime on the spatial distribution of available phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium in soil - Kate Sargeant
• Persistence under grazing by introduced temperate perennial grasses in New South Wales and Victoria - R Culvenor, K Reed and S Boschma
• Plant species density on unimproved pastures in steep hill country of western Victoria - ZN Nie, PE Quigley, F Cameron and L Thomas
• Changes in perennial pasture composition under organic management in northeast Victoria - Viv Burnett, John Schneider and Wayne Dempsey
• An overview of Chilean needle grass: a Weed of National Significance - Linda Iaconis, Keith Turnbull
• TIMERITE®: it’s now available for everyone - Celia Pavri, James Ridsdill-Smith
• Regional best-practice management of Chilean needle grass (Nassella neesiana): an emerging weed on the southern tablelands of New South Wales - Lori McGarva, Darren Kriticos, Karl Grigulis and David McLaren
• Production and environmental gains from managing salinity - John R Ive
• Sustainable Grazing on Saline Lands: a new national research program addressing animal production on saline grasslands - Nick Edwards, Michelle Fenton, Andrew Craig, Malcolm McCaskill, Pedro Evans and Warren King
• What can be hidden at depth affecting your pasture production? - Nicole Gammie
• Pasture species distribution in ponded pasture on an acid-sulphate–soil scald site - Carol Rose, Scott Henderson
• Long-season annual legumes to increase lamb production - Clare Gloag, Andrew Thompson, Andrew Kennedy, Karen Venning
• Balansa clover is more competitive against seedling annual ryegrass than are subterranean clover, berseem clover, and murex medic - A Hodge, BS Dear, D Lemerle, JE Pratley, A Kaiser and BA Orchard
• New hard-seeded French serradella cultivars (Ornithopus sativus Brot.) - BS Dear, GA Sandral, B Nutt, BCD Wilson, JN Taylor and CA Rodham
• Developing an acid-tolerant tall fescue - Carol Harris
• Growth of perennial grasses in an acid soil - Carol Harris
• Lucerne sowing rate and its effect on plant density and productivity - Libby Roesner
• The effect of surface-applied lime on seed yield of four annual legumes grown in mixtures with phalaris - R Hayes, BS Dear and PL Eberbach
• Improved oat varieties for hay production - PK Zwer, SD Hoppo, PD McCormack, DK Schaefer, JE Emery and MM Williams
• Sulla and other forage species for southern Australia - Mike Ewing
• Objective measurement of fodder quality across animal species - Peter Flinn, Stephanie Knott, Leo Cummins and Dawn Dalley
• Establishment of annual ryegrass toxicity (ARGT) testing services and protocols for the Australian export hay industry - Alan McKay
• Grass tetany: prevention based on soil and plant analysis - Colin L Trengove