Conference 2008

"PASTURES AT THE CUTTING EDGE"

Date: 21-23 JULY 2008
Location: Tamworth NSW

Table of contents

Invited Papers

• Pushing the profit drivers for pasture - M Gout
• Factors affecting beef enterprise profitability – experiences from a grazing group in North-West New South Wales - TM Farrell
• Improved perennial pasture establishment at ‘Ruby Hills’ - AD Burgess
• Options for managing soil phosphorus supply - A McNeill
• Biochar: Potential for climate change mitigation, improved yield and soil health - L van Zwieten,S Kimber, K Sinclair, KY Chan and A Downie
• Changing ‘Glenbrae’ - GS Ward
• Profitable pastoral farming through genetic modification: fact or friction? - DR Woodfield
• Pastures for animal production: Understanding the challenges - CT Westwood
• Towards a tropical grass package for northern New South Wales - SP Boschma, LH McCormick
• Experiences with the establishment and grazing of tropical grasses on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales - LE Bowman
• Pastures in the high rainfall zone – Their anticipated responses to climate change and their role in minimising net farm greenhouse gas emissions - D Alcock, RS Hegarty
• Defining the northern New South Wales feed-year and mitigating feed-gaps - AJ Lockyer
• ‘The business of growing a meal’ – the application of new pasture varieties and management practices for intensive beef production - GRT Lord
• ‘Art and science’ – producing high quality forage-based feed for intensive dairy production - JL Drury

Contributed Papers

• Assessing management options for the autumn feed deficit - K Mokany, AD Moore
• Modelling feed profiles and production options - GD Millar, RE Jones and DL Michalk
• Pasture-cropping in a Bothriochloa macra (red grass) dominant pasture with a low input history - GD Millar, WB Badgery
• Evaluating change through feed budgets – the Beef-n-omics experience - AJ Rayner
• Field germination of tropical grasses with new seed coating technology - L Song, G Veness and I Kalms
• Rate and depth of sowing of sulla (Hedysarum coronarium) - GJ Crocker
• Effect of sowing depth on emergence of burgundy bean (Macroptilium bracteatum) - GJ Crocker
• A comparison of the performance of progeny derived from two and three-year old heifers and mature cows - MA McKiernan
• Improved pasture establishment benefits production with pasture grasses - K Blowers
• Soil phosphorus and sulphur in pastures of North-West Slopes and Upper Hunter districts of New South Wales - S Muir, GD Schwenke, LH McCormick, SA Squires and CG Bowman
• A review of the land application of biosolids as a tool to help restore and sustain New South Wales grasslands - LC Martin
• Combining yield with persistence – Pegasis, a new generation winter-active and persistent lucerne variety - S Venkatanagappa, T O’Brien
• Phoenix, Venture and Matador – new birdsfoot trefoil cultivars for permanent pasture applications in easternAustralia - JF Ayres, WM Kelman and LA Lane
• Design and analysis on the for spatial effects in pasture trials - RD Murison, JF Ayres, LA Lane and MZZ Jahufer
• New Panicum cultivars on the horizon for northern New South Wales - CA Harris
• Trophy – a locally adapted white clover cultivar for dry-land pastures - JF Ayres, JR Caradus, RD Murison, LA Lane and DR Woodfield
• Where westerwolds work well - AM Leddin
• Performance of different lucerne dormancy classes under dry-land condition - LM Serafin, JF Scott and B Welsh
• Lucerne persistence in Central New South Wales - KA Hertel
• Evaluation of new breeding populations of phalaris for the North-West Slopes of New South Wales - SP Boschma, RA Culvenor
• Preliminary evaluation of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) cultivar Tonic as a feed for ewe lactation - HG Judson
• EverGraze research in northern New South Wales - GM Lodge, SP Boschma and MA Brennan
• EverGraze: grazing systems for native pastures in Central-West New South Wales - WB Badgery, GD Millar and PM Cranney
• Studies of plant biodiversity on properties grazing sheep on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales - NL Schultz, N Reid and GM Lodge
• Rainfall and soil water content at a native pasture site near Barraba, New South Wales; 2003-2008 - GM Lodge, MA Brennan
• Using modelling to explore the relationships between predicted long-term stocking rate and sheep intake of pasture and supplement for a native perennial grass-based pasture near Barraba, New South Wales - GM Lodge, IR Johnson
• Potential impact of climate variability on profitability of native pasture improvement in northern NSW - JF Scott, GM Lodge
• ‘Drying Order’: A management tool for climate change - GH Reid
• Fertilisation of tropical grass pastures with sulphate of ammonia - WK Manning, MA Kesby
• Improving the match between feed supply and feed intake of beef cattle on the North-West Plains - JL McConochie