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Legumes for rundown buffel pastures

Date: Friday 9 May 2014
Time:
8:00am-4:00pm AEST
Event category:
Venue Kookaburra
Yeovil Road
Wandoan, Qld 4419 Australia
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Field day

You are invited to visit three properties, each conducting different trials in the incorporation of legumes into buffel grass pastures.

‘Kookaburra’ comparing buffel grass with desmanthus to buffel grass only pasture established 19 years ago; and pasture response to phosphorus fertiliser.

‘Cherwondah’ establishing five different legumes into sprayed out strips of grass pastures.

‘Juandah Valley’ comparing different ways to establish legumes into existing grass pastures; and pasture varieties demonstration (five legumes).

Guest speaker: Gavin Peck, Senior Pasture Agronomist (Sown Pastures), Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Times

8.00am at ‘Kookaburra’

11.00am at ‘Cherwondah’, lunch at 12.00pm

1.00pm at ‘Juandah Valley’

RSVP Wednesday 7 May 2014 for catering purposes to Andrea Beard
T: 07 4627 3859 E: andrea.beard@dcca.net.au