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Table of Contents from the 12th Conference Proceedings
28-30 JULY 1997 – Dubbo NSW
“PASTURES UNDER ADVERSE CONDITIONS”
Invited Papers
The benefits of a pasture ley in cereal cropping – Errol Weston, Ram Dalal, Wayne Strong and John Lehane
Perennial pastures in the whole farm system – Scott Chambers
Nitrogen fixation by pastures in dryland farming systems – Mark Peoples, Robert Gault, John Angus, Alison Bowman, John Brockwell, David Kemp, Matthew McCallum, John Paul, Paul Quigley, Penny Riffkin, Glen Scammell and Ted Wolfe
Using lucerne in a cereal cropping system – Peter O’Brien
Pastures for acid soils in the north and central west – RD Freebairn, CL Mullen and BA Mathews
Temperate pastures on acid soils – Does liming pay? – Robert Sutherland
Plants to modify the water table – The potential of native grasses to reduce recharge – Meredith Mitchell, Craig Clifton, Bill Johnston and Ian Cole
Plants to modify the water table – The role of shrubs and woody forbs – Peter Milthorpe, IH Hume, DC Mitchell, and MC Yee
Using saltbush and other plants on saline soils – John Grieg
The cost of establishing a good pasture – Part A – Bruce Watt
The cost of establishing a good pasture – Part B – Haydon Wass
The economic returns from pasture development – Greg O’Brien
What to do and where to go for financial assistance for pasture development – Clive Sefton
Lending for pasture establishment and improvement – Jon Blissett
Grazing to manage natural grasslands – Richard Silcock, Peter Martin
Managing perennial grasses for livestock production – Peter Weston
Grazing systems in practice – Bill Waugh
Harvesting and sowing native grasses – Ian Cole, Cathy Waters
Contributed papers and posters
Niche potential and forage value of Elymus scaber var. scaber on the Northern Tablelands – Michelle Murphy
Bothriochloa macra, B. biloba, why is one common and the other rare? – Some embryological evidence – P Yu, N Prakash and RDB Whalley
Germination response of Glycine tabacina to temperature and light – BE Heard, RDB Whalley
Natural grasslands on slopes of the Garrawillie Creek subcatchment, Liverpool plains, New South Wales – JM Bean, RDB Whalley
Persistence of native and introduced perennial grasses on an acid soil – Peter Simpson
Glycine latifolia – A native legume with potential – GT McIntosh, AM Bowman and RS Jessop
Evaluation of white clover cultivars for dryland pastures in northern NSW –LA Lane, JF Ayres, JR Caradus and RD Murison
Drought recovery of temperate perennial pastures on the northern tablelands – JF Ayres, AD Turner and PG Kamphorst
Persistence of sown pastures legumes under grazing in north eastern New South Wales – AM Bowman, GPH Wilson
Pasture composition survey of southern NSW – Annabel Bowcher, Jim Virgona
Establishment of surface-sown perennial grasses on the north western plains of New South Wales – MH Campbell, AM Bowman
Evaluation of landholders’ attitudes towards perennial pasture systems in southern NSW and the role of Consol lovegrass – D Brown, G Jackson, A Andrews and W Johnston
Breeding phalaris for better survival under adverse conditions – RA Culvenor, WM Kelman and RN Oram
Survival of phalaris cultivars through the 1994 drought at Canberra – RA Culvenor
Productive pastures and the CRC for Weed Management Systems – Ursula Taylor
Spot treatment of blue heliotrope with Graslan® – John Unwin
Reactive phosphate rock: an effective fertiliser for NSW pastures? – PWG Sale, D Garden
The performance of set-stocked pastures on the northern tablelands of NSW through severe drought – CA Harris, JF Ayres
Practical grazing management for lucerne in NSW western wheat belt – RB Thompson, GJ Kemister
How can graziers manage perennial grasses to survive through drought – JM Scott, SP Boschma and GG Rapp
Using seasonal rainfall probabilities to predict drought risk – Anthony Casanova
The benefits of increasing defoliation interval – Judi Earl
Management aids for rangeland pastoralists – Ruth Maxey, Lori McGarva
The role of farmer knowledge in developing sustainable pasture and grazing systems – Joanne Millar, Allan Curtis
The association of soil cobalt with the incidence of phalaris ‘staggers’ on phalaris pastures in central NSW – CA Bourke
The biosolids revolution – Cathy Bruce, Roger Patricks