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Table of Contents from the 20th Conference Proceedings
19-21 JULY 2003 – Orange NSW
“GRASS ROOTS & ALL”
Invited Papers
Landscape indicators – “What your country is telling you” – BW Clements
Life under the soil surface in pasture systems – VVSR Gupta, MH Ryder and DK Roget
Operating a grazing property in a high rainfall tableland environment – Bruce Gordon
Soil assessment for pasture production that considers both physical and chemical factors in the topsoil and subsoil – DC McKenzie
Endophyte – what is it and its significance in New Zealand pastoral agriculture – DE Hume, GP Cosgrove
Endophyte infected perennial ryegrass and tall fescue for New South Wales? – Warwick Wheatley
Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) – P Andrews, D Goldney, D Mitchell and P Newell
Strategic nitrogen use: viewing nitrogen as a feed supplement, not a fertiliser – Andrew Harborne
Lamb feeding – a simple and efficient system – RE White
The Sustainable Grazing on Saline Lands (SGSL) Program in New South Wales – John Powell, Luke Beange
Productive and profitable dual purpose winter wheats for tableland and slopes – RD Freebairn
Timing of forage cut affects feed yield, quality and seed set in subterranean clover – BS Dear, BF Hackney, GM Dyce and CA Rodham
Grazing management and pasture innovations: what’s best for your farming system? – K Behrendt
The shift from wool to meat – implications for conservation of tableland native grasslands – John Powell, Jan Powell
Poster and Contributed Papers
An optimum New England wool production system – R Marchant, S Hatcher
Monitoring ewe fat score aids management – S Hatcher, C Edwards, P Graham, P Johnston, M Lollback and R Marchant
Potassium uptake in plants and its relationship to grass tetany – MG Elliott
New annual legume cultivars – where do they fit? – BS Dear, BF Hackney, GM Dyce and CA Rodham
Annual pasture legumes for one year forage crops – BF Hackney, BS Dear, GM Dyce and CA Rodham
Evaluation of tall fescue varieties on the Northern Tablelands of NSW – CA Harris, J Lowien
Perennial grasses for medium to low rainfall areas – BF Hackney, BS Dear and RC Hayes
Pasture establishment on limed and unlimed soils – GD Li, MK Conyers, RJ Lowrie, RP Fisher and GJ Poile
Developing new forage plant for acid soils – GD Li, BS Dear and RC Hayes
Tropical grasses – do they have a role in both recharge and discharge environments in northern New South Wales? – SP Boschma, GM Lodge and MA Brennan
Shrub species for use in recharge areas in northern New South Wales– SP Boschma, GM Lodge and MA Brennan
Measuring soil water content to indicate the ability of different pasture species to dry the soil profile – MA Brennan, GM Lodge and SP Boschma
Mapping salinity variability of a discharge site on Calala Creek, North-West Slopes of New South Wales – SP Boschma, GM Lodge and MA Brennan
Using long term model simulations of soil water content of grazed pastures to predict the onset of drought on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales – GM Lodge, IR Johnson
Grain & Graze: filling the feed gap with grazing wheats – KM Condon, KG McMullen
The development of a fodder radish suitable for multiple grazing, Ceres Graza – AV Stewart, D Baker
TopFodder Silage – N Griffiths, I Blackwood, J Piltz, A Kaiser and H Burns