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Table of Contents from the 11th Conference Proceedings
10-11 JULY 1996 – Wagga Wagga NSW
“THE ART OF GRAZING MANAGEMENT”
Invited Papers
Can big energy users survive in low nutrient ecosystems – Tim Flannery
Riverina grasslands – A personal history – Martin Driver
The Pooginook story – A fundamental change in decision making – David Taylor
Development of native perennial grasses for grazing – Bill Johnston
Thinking holistically on the saltbush plains – Mark Rowe
Grazing by numbers makes lucerne last – Rex Williams
Pastures that work in lower rainfall areas – John Daunt
Twenty years of lucerne management – Bernard Hart
How plant physiology can help us achieve better grazing management – Richard Simpson, Stephen Clark, Doug Alcock, Mike Freer, John Donnelly and Andrew Moore
How can I make my pastures more profitable – Grant Burbidge
Perennial pastures in a crop-ley farming system – A personal perspective – Don Dyce
Dung beetles: past, present and future – John Feehan
Integrated management of red legged earth mite in pastures – David James
Why I am sowing chicory – Don Kirkpatrick
Grassland management in NSW: The evolution of an approach – Ian Garrard
What is a native grassland? – John Benson
SEPP 46 dealing with the broader community’s expectations: A grazier’s perspective – Jim Litchfield
Contributed papers and posters
Sowing depth and emergence of seedlings of Microlaena stipoides – RDB Whalley, DJ Beckers
Herbage yield of some native perennial grasses – David Eddy, Denys Garden
Forage quality of some native perennial grasses – David Eddy, Denys Garden
A comparison of herbage production of a range of Danthonia spp. – David Eddy, Denys Garden
Methods of establishing trees on non-arable land to control weeds – MH Campbell, HI Nicol
A comparison of the performance of softseeded and hardseeded subterranean clover cultivars prior to and after the drought of 1994 – GA Sandral, BS Dear
Farmer best management practices for lucerne in 350-450 mm rainfall zone – J Whiteley, M Lattimore, R Thompson, G Kemister and P Lukins
Annual grass control in seeding phalaris and cocksfoot – BS Dear, GA Sandral
The effect of pre-emergent herbicides on perennial grass seedlings – GA Sandral, BS Dear
The competitive performance of a weed with introduced grasses in acid soils – BB Rubzen, EC Wolfe and KR Helyar
Consol lovegrass outcompetes spiny burr grass – Robert Freebairn, Bryan Matthews
The tolerance of common weeds and native grasses to acid soils – BB Rubzen, EC Wolfe and KR Helyar
The distribution and significance of saffron thistle (Carthamus lanatus) in NSW – NS Crump, CJ Ash and A Nikandrow
Tolerance of native grasses to Frenock® and Roundup® – MH Campbell, R Van de Ven
Glyphosate resistance in annual ryegrass – Jim Pratley, Peter Baines, Phillip Eberbach, Maurice Incerti and John Broster
Preliminary survey of the incidence of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) staggers in central tablelands of NSW – Warwick Wheatley
Phytophthora root rot, spotted clover aphids and phosphorus deficiency limit growth of irrigated subterranean clover – Gordon Murray, Kerry Wratten and Wendy Milne
Using satellite imagery to achieve more efficient fertiliser use in Central & Southern Tablelands pastures in NSW – John Crichton, Ian McGowen
The response of a phalaris-based pasture to nitrogen fertilisation – JM Virgona, A Oates
Changes in plant frequency within a grazed pasture under ten different fertiliser regimes – RD FitzGerald, BR McGufficke
Critical parameters for monitoring annual leys – JA Paul, EC Wolfe and PD Cregan
Grazing strategies to get more out of Coolatai grass – LH McCormick, GM Lodge
Managing perennial pastures – Mike Keys, Mike Darby
Some characteristics of summer-growing (C4) perennial grass patches that occur in improved pasture – Annabel Bowcher, Jim Virgona
Improving Lotus persistence through management: site establishment – Martin Blumenthal, John O’Connor, John Ayres,Leah Lane, Zvi Hochman and Jim Hindmarsh
The persistence of introduced pasture species through severe drought on the northern tablelands of NSW – JF Ayres, AD Turner and PG Kamphorst
Fescue for meat project – Frank Johnson, Gavin Milne and Tony Stratton
The estimation of biomass by a rod-point method – JA Paul, EC Wolfe and PD Cregan
Travel grant report
Report on travel grant to attend the Fifteenth Asian-Pacific Weed Society Conference in Tsukuba, Japan, 24-28 July 1995 – Peter Dowling