Legume establishment part 2: Why pasture legumes benefit beef businesses and how to get them into pastures

Join the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) sown pastures team for the second of a 2-part series on legume establishment across Southern, Central, and Northern Queensland. This webinar focusses on establishing legumes into existing grass pastures in the monsoonal zone of northern Queensland.

Beef grazing on native pastures is the key land use in the seasonally dry zone of north Queensland but animal productivity is limited by poor feed supply during the extended dry season. The adoption of legumes into grass pastures has historically been shown to increase returns through improving the diet over the year, but adoption has remained low.

Recent research by the Queensland Government and Meat & Livestock Australia has focussed on the development of legume-grass ‘production paddocks’ on a range of land types to target the nutrition of key livestock classes (weaners, steers). These systems are highly productive and profitable, but successful adoption by graziers depends on reliable and affordable establishment.

In this BeefConnect webinar, join Dr Kendrick Cox (DPI Principal Pasture Scientist), as he discusses the case for investing in legume pastures and describes a range of methods and considerations to reliably establish pasture legumes into native and sown grass pastures under a range of situations in the northern tropics of Queensland.