NT Department of Agriculture at the International Rangeland Congress!
Delegates from over 50 countries flocked to Adelaide, South Australia for The XII International Rangeland Congress (IRC) which took place from June 2-6 2025. “Working Together for Our Global Rangelands Future” was the very fitting theme to help celebrate 50 years of the international conference. Over 1,000 scientists, land managers, policymakers, and Indigenous leaders from around the world discussed sustainable rangeland management and the challenges and potential solutions to increasing resilience in pastoral systems.
Several members of the Northern Territory Department of Agriculture and Fisheries – Livestock Industries team represented the Territory with presentations to accompany the abstracts that they submitted.
The papers that NT DAF staff presented at the Rangelands congress can be accessed at the links below:
- Factors influencing pasture utilisation in northern Australian rangelands (PDF, 671KB)
- A life in the Central Australian pastoral industry starts here – creating future land managers through rangeland management courses (PDF, 989KB)
- Beef cattle grazing rangeland pastures augmented with naturalised stylo had heavier liveweight gains in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (PDF, 728KB)
- The Northern Territory Rangeland Management Course: growing the next generation of land managers (PDF, 958KB)
- The paddock Challenge: comparing business as usual with recommended stocking rates (PDF, 857KB)
- Commercial-scale implementation of wet season spelling for Mitchell grass recovery (PDF, 835KB)
- Cattle walk further than 3km from water in central Australia, but only if they have to! (PDF, 714KB)
- How grazing management influences biocrust community composition in the Northern Territory rangelands (PDF, 927KB)
- FIREGRAZE: Using strategic patch burning to influence cattle grazing behaviour and improve land condition (PDF, 754KB)
- Lessons from a 30 year burning experiment in northern Australian grazed tropical savannas (PDF, 963KB)
Check out the full conference proceedings: XII-IRC-Proceedings-Draft-com-compressed.pdf
Contact us!
If you would like further information about the topics outlined above, don’t hesitate to reach out to our research and extension staff! Contact livestock.extension@nt.gov.au