Economic Evaluation of Leucaena and Stylo Pastures at Goshen Station

In 2018, the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries established a producer demonstration site at Goshen Station. The demonstration site was developed with leucaena and inter-row sown pasture species, including stylo, on a cleared red earth soil with low fertility. This factsheet analyses the data from this site to examine the profitability of three scenarios for a 500-ha native grass pasture:

1. Maintaining a native grass pasture (business as usual)
2. Leucaena planted in strips with inter-rows sown to mixed grass species and Seca stylo (based on known inputs from actual practice)
3. Mixed grass species and Seca stylo across the whole paddock (i.e., no leucaena), based on assumed
inputs and methods.