Grassland Society of NSW

24th Annual Conference – Taree 2009
“The Grass is Greener”

Please use these links to download the main sections of the Conference Proceedings – use the index below to select the relevant section.

CONTENTS:

The Grassland Society of NSW
Conference sponsors
Preface

Invited Papers  - click here to download the Invited Papers, pp 9-72 (pdf file 3.6MB) – index below

page 9.  Greener Grass – on the coast

• The Manning Valley – Terry Launders
• Sustainable beef cattle production systems – Allan Edwards
• Upper Barrington pasture improvement – J. Laurie

page 20.  Greener Grass – at what cost?

• Rumen function and lameness in highly managed pasture based dairy systems – Dr Jim Gibbs
• Comparing Gippsland to Walcha – P. Notman
• Personal health and wellbeing – Tammy Farrell

page 33.  Greener Grass – from the soil up

• Land sector accounting and the national carbon accounting system – Dr Bill Slattery
• The role of native pastures in the Mid North Coast landscape – Carol Rose
• Nutritional management options to reduce enteric methane emissions from NSW beef and dairy herds – Dr Roger Hegarty

page 46.  Greener Grass – pasture and animal interactions

• The challenges in managing cattle herds for growth and reproductive
  efficiency on pastures in north-coastal New South Walesctive
  efficiency on pastures in north-coastal New South WaleThe challenges in managing cattle herds for growth and reproductiveefficiency on pastures in north-coastal New South Wales
• The challenge of managing cattle herds for growth and reproductive efficiency on pastures in north-coastal New South Wales – David Hennessy
• High production from Creebank pasture – David Williams
• Treechangers – 50% and increasing the beef supply. Growing big, healthy and happy Angus cattle on the NSW Mid-North Coast – Ross Elphick

page 65.  Greener Grass – climate change implications

• The challenges in managing cattle herds for growth and reproductive
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  efficiency on pastures in north-coastal New South WaleThe challenges in managing cattle herds for growth and reproductiveefficiency on pastures in north-coastal New South Wales
• Impacts and implications of climate change for the pastoral industries – AL Cowie and RJ Martin
• Pasture production at Budgeree Holsteins – Colin Cowan

Contributed papers – click here to download the Contributed Papers, pp 73-127 (pdf file 4.9MB), index below

• Selection of a seeding Swazi grass – TA Campbell and DI Officer
• Soil carbon sequestration potential under perennial pastures in the mid-north coast of New South Wales – KY Chan and D McCoy
• A lime movement experiment, Walcha NSW – C Edwards, M Duncan, C Harris and A Burgess
• Pasture growth from poultry litter. Part 1 – N Griffiths and S Richards
• Pasture growth from poultry litter. Part 2: Comparing the cost of poultry litter – N Griffiths
• Suppression of kikuyu grass to allow oversowing in autumn – N Griffiths, T Cook and P Beale
• Seed yield, dormancy and seedling survival of some perennial tropical grasses in northern New South Wales – GM Lodge, LH McCormick and BR Roworth
• Producers dealing with problem pasture species that cause seed contamination and production losses in lamb production systems – J Mason and K Behrendt
• Simple rules to use when buying seed of tropical perennial grasses – LH McCormick, GM Lodge, SP Boschma and S Murray
• Potential production of irrigated dairy forages on coastal NSW – JS Neal
• Effect of fertilisers on pasture growth in carpet grass dominated pastures – C Rose and H Rose
• Effect of fertiliser and rest period on legume abundance in carpet grass dominated pastures – C Rose and H Rose
• Effect of fertiliser and rest period on grass composition in carpet grass dominated pastures – C Rose and H Rose
• Effect of rest period on growth rates of carpet grass dominated pastures – C Rose and H Rose
• Growth rates of water couch (Paspalum distichum) and spike rush (Eleocharis sphacelata) in two wetland grazing systems on the North Coast – C Rose, H Rose and P Hirst
• Feed quality of water couch (Paspalum distichum) and spike rush (Eleocharis sphacelata) on the North Coast of NSW – C Rose, H Rose and P Hirst.
• Producing ‘greener’ grass with legumes enhances $u$tainability – JM Scott
• Productivity and nutrient availability on a Ferrosol: biochar, lime and fertiliser – K Sinclair, P Slavich, L van Zwieten and A Downie
• GPS livestock tracking: a pasture utilisation monitor for the grazing industry – MG Trotter, DW Lamb and GN Hinch
• Differences in intrinsic water-use efficiency between four Austrodanthonia species – CM Waters and J Virgona