Conference 2012

Invited Papers

• Recognising and working within landscape limitations for increased productivity - B. Hackney, J. Powells and N. Ferguson
• How has grazing management changed to utilise differences in the landscape? A follow up to 2001 Gundagai Conference - RR Purcell, CA Purcell and AB Purcell
• Soil carbon: variation across the landscape - SE Orgill, J Condon, M Conyers, R Greene and B Murphy
• Humic products – potential or presumption for agriculture? Can humic products improve my soil? - KL Billingham
• Phosphorus in the landscape: a sustainable phosphorus future for Australian pastures - RJ Simpson
• ‘GrassGro helped me fine tune my farming system, how can it help you?’ - O Cay
• Why fertilise native pastures? - DJ Alcock, L Pope, J Powells and D Garden
• Long-term effects of fertiliser on the productivity and persistence of perennial native grasses - MJ Keys and BW Clements
• Intensive rotational grazing can improve profitability and environmental outcomes - WB Badgery, P Cranney, GD Millar, D Mitchell, K Behrendt
• Perennial pasture species for the mixed farming zone of southern NSW – We don’t have many options - RC Hayes, GD Li and BF Hackney
• How a new decision support tool helps farmers in mixed farming make pasture sowing decisions about cover cropping - J McCormick, R Hayes, T Swan,G Li, J Walker, Nordblom, G Casburn, T Hutchings, AD Moore, E Zurcher, M Peoples
• Increasing the proportion of female lambs by supplementary feeding oats high in omega-6 fatty acids at joining - EH Clayton, CE Gulliver, JF Wilkins, BJ King, RJ Meyer and MF Friend

Contributed Papers

• Pasture utilisation – a key driver for profitable grazing - G.M. Lodge, I.R. Johnson and L.H. McCormick
• Long-term modelling of lucerne and tropical perennial grass mixtures and monocultures - GM Lodge and LH McCormick
• History of the Grassland Society of NSW – the first 25 years - MH Campbell

Poster Summaries

• Critical phosphorus levels for butterfly pea and buffel grass and the impact of inter-specific competition - CD Campbell, R Haling and C Guppy
• More lucerne reduces feeding in drought years and increases the weight of lamb sold in wet summers - SM Robertson and MA Friend
• Choice of sheep enterprise affects production and risk - SM Robertson and MA Friend
• Managing rangeland goats in western New South Wales - Y Alemseged, RB Hacker, ID Toole and WJ Smith