Conference 2005

"GRASS ROOTS & ALL"

Date: 19-21 JULY 2003
Location: Orange NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• Landscape indicators – “What your country is telling you” - BW Clements
• Life under the soil surface in pasture systems - VVSR Gupta, MH Ryder and DK Roget
• Operating a grazing property in a high rainfall tableland environment - Bruce Gordon
• Soil assessment for pasture production that considers both physical and chemical factors in the topsoil and subsoil - DC McKenzie
• Using soil assessment for pasture production that considers both physical and chemical factors in the topsoil and subsoil - Ben Watts
• Endophyte – what is it and its significance in New Zealand pastoral agriculture - DE Hume, GP Cosgrove
• Endophyte infected perennial ryegrass and tall fescue for New South Wales? - Warwick Wheatley
• Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) - P Andrews, D Goldney, D Mitchell and P Newell
• Strategic nitrogen use: viewing nitrogen as a feed supplement, not a fertiliser - Andrew Harborne
• Lamb feeding – a simple and efficient system - RE White
• The Sustainable Grazing on Saline Lands (SGSL) Program in New South Wales - John Powell, Luke Beange
• Productive and profitable dual purpose winter wheats for tableland and slopes - RD Freebairn
• Timing of forage cut affects feed yield, quality and seed set in subterranean clover - BS Dear, BF Hackney, GM Dyce and CA Rodham
• Grazing management and pasture innovations: what’s best for your farming system? - K Behrendt
• The shift from wool to meat – implications for conservation of tableland native grasslands - John Powell, Jan Powell

Contributed Papers

• An optimum New England wool production system - R Marchant, S Hatcher
• Monitoring ewe fat score aids management - S Hatcher, C Edwards, P Graham, P Johnston, M Lollback and R Marchant
• Potassium uptake in plants and its relationship to grass tetany - MG Elliott
• New annual legume cultivars – where do they fit? - BS Dear, BF Hackney, GM Dyce and CA Rodham
• Annual pasture legumes for one year forage crops - BF Hackney, BS Dear, GM Dyce and CA Rodham
• Evaluation of tall fescue varieties on the Northern Tablelands of NSW - CA Harris, J Lowien
• Perennial grasses for medium to low rainfall areas - BF Hackney, BS Dear and RC Hayes
• Pasture establishment on limed and unlimed soils - GD Li, MK Conyers, RJ Lowrie, RP Fisher and GJ Poile
• Developing new forage plant for acid soils - GD Li, BS Dear and RC Hayes
• Tropical grasses – do they have a role in both recharge and discharge environments in northern New South Wales? - SP Boschma, GM Lodge and MA Brennan
• Shrub species for use in recharge areas in northern New South Wales - SP Boschma, GM Lodge and MA Brennan
• Measuring soil water content to indicate the ability of different pasture species to dry the soil profile - MA Brennan, GM Lodge and SP Boschma
• Mapping salinity variability of a discharge site on Calala Creek, North-West Slopes of New South Wales - SP Boschma, GM Lodge and MA Brennan
• Using long term model simulations of soil water content of grazed pastures to predict the onset of drought on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales - GM Lodge, IR Johnson
• Using long term seasonal rainfall records to predict the likelihood of above or below average total annual rainfall in a summer rainfall environment - GM Lodge
• Grain & Graze: filling the feed gap with grazing wheats - KM Condon, KG McMullen
• The development of a fodder radish suitable for multiple grazing, Ceres Graza - AV Stewart, D Baker
• TopFodder Silage - N Griffiths, I Blackwood, J Piltz, A Kaiser and H Burns