Conference 2007

"PASTURE SYSTEMS: MANAGING FOR A VARIABLE CLIMATE"

Date: 18-19 JULY 2007
Location: Queanbeyan NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• Managing for a variable climate: preparing for climate change - Peter Hayman
• Managing the carbon cycle - Jeff Baldock, Jan Skjemstad and Terry Bolger
• Balancing profit with climatic and environmental risks - Doug Alcock
• Managing and developing plants for variable climates - David Kemp
• Achieving production and environmental benefits in a challenging landscape - John Ive, Robyn Ive
• July 2007 – Where to from here? - David Sackett
• Surviving drought: strategies to date and plans for the future - Ian Atkinson
• Managing your farm’s water resources - John Franklin
• Water reticulation on-farm in a challenging environment - Bryce Garnock

Poster Summaries

• ‘Trigger Points’ for stocking decision in Western NSW - Ron Hacker, Yohannes Alemseged, Paul Carberry and Warren Smith
• Impact of climate variability on predicted annual pasture intake of sheep grazing native pastures in northern NSW - Greg Lodge, Ian Johnson
• Developing tools for climate risk management in the subtropical dairy region - K Sinclair, RG Walker and Z Hochman
• Summer dormancy – a drought resistance strategy in perennial grasses - Mark Norton, Florence Volaire, Shu Fukai and Francois Lelievre
• Drought resistance of perennial grasses - Terry Bolger, Denys Garden and Anna Rita Rivelli
• Establishment trials on acid soils with phalaris cultivars varying in aluminium tolerance - Richard Culvenor, Dennis Watson
• Persistence of perennial pastures in variable seasons - Michael Keys
• Grazing behaviour and diet composition of sheep grazing dual-purpose canola - Hugh Dove, Andrew Lieschke
• Seed preferences of Pheidole ants for pasture grasses and legumes at 3 sites in southern New South Wales - Walter Kelman
• LANDSCAN Farm Plan™ – a new workshop to assist graziers - Michael Keys, Bruce Clements
• Evaluation of ‘Paddock Plants’ Field Days - Lori McWhirter, Helena Warren and Ashley Senn
• Variability in weather: what are the consequences for grazing enterprise? - Libby Salmon, John Donnelly