31st Conference, Renewed focus on livestock systems for resilience – the swing back to forages. Gunnedah 2019
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- Damned if I do, damned if I don’t: striving for higher grazing returns with fodder crops in northern NSW – S Fritsch (page 12)
- Producer’s perspective: the swing to forages – D Maxwell and T Maxwell (page 18)
- Integration of on-farm silage systems for enhanced beef cattle production – JJ Catts (page 24)
- Turning traditional cropping farmland into productive grasslands using tropical grasses, multispecies pasture cropping and saltbush -J Kirkby and L Kirkby (page 28)
- Poisoning of lambs on mature Bambatsi panic (Panicum coloratum) pasture – SM Slattery (page 32)
- Contributed Papers…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
- 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
- What is the optimal ratio of digit grass and lucerne in a mixed pasture? – SR Murphy, SP Boschma and MA Brennan
- 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
- Poisoning of lambs on mature Bambatsi panic (Panicum coloratum) pasture
- 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