Conference 2019

"Renewed focus on livestock systems for resilience - the swing back to forages"

Date: 3 - 4 July 2019
Location: Gunnedah NSW

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Invited Papers

• Damned if I do, damned if I don’t: striving for higher grazing returns with fodder crops in northern NSW - S. Fritsch
• Integration of on-farm silage systems for enhanced beef cattle production - JJ Catts
• Poisoning of lambs on mature Bambatsi panic - SM Slattery
• Producer’s perspective: the swing to forages - D Maxwell and T Maxwell
• Turning traditional cropping farmland into productive grasslands using tropical grasses, multispecies pasture cropping and saltbush - J Kirkby and L Kirkby
• Poisoning of lambs on mature Bambatsi panic (Panicum coloratum) pasture -

Contributed Papers

• What is the optimal ratio of digit grass and lucerne in a mixed pasture? - SR Murphy, SP Boschma and MA Brennan
• Novel graphs show extreme rainfall shortages - JG Speight
• Could tropical species have potential in southern Australia? Defining the potential geographical distribution of Rhodes grass in current and future climates - M Simpson, SP Boschma and CA Harris
• Harnessing producers’ tropical grass experience to support potential new producers - K Sinclair, AL Curtis, RD Freebairn and SP Boschma
• Evaluating seedling emergence, establishment and survival of tropical perennial grasses in Central West NSW - Y Alemseged and WJ Smith
• Differences in soil water dynamics and herbage production between temperate and tropical pasture species for Central West NSW - ID Toole, SP Boschma, CM Waters and SR Murphy
• Sustainability and productivity of two mine rehabilitation sown pastures in the Hunter Valley - N Griffiths and H Rose
• A comparison of beef production from native and mine rehabilitation sown pastures in the Hunter Valley - N Griffiths and H Rose
• One size does not fit all – matching grazing strategies with plant growth stages - DG Mittasch, CA Harris and SP Boschma
• Effects of topdressed lime, superphosphate, sewage ash and stocking rate on subterranean clover production of a Southern Tablelands pasture - MR Norton, DL Garden, BA Orchard, P Armstrong, T Brassil, H Burns
• Poultry litter as a fertiliser: 30 years of development - NW Griffiths