Resilience strategies for small landholders: Grazing land management and pasture recovery
This recorded webinar is focused on supporting small landholders during times of drought and the subsequent recovery processes.
In this presentation, Bruce Lord (Healthy Land and Water) discusses the factors relating to grazing land management and pasture recovery including:
- Land types
- Soil health
- Grazing land condition
- Pasture and grass indicator species
- ABCD land condition scoring
- Grazing management tools
- And many more…
During the presentation, Bruce also discusses restoring and maintaining land condition.
You can watch the full recording or use the playlist below to jump to the start of a particular section within the presentation. 31:17; published 12 May 2020 by FutureBeefAu.
Download a copy of the presentation – Grazing land management and pasture recovery (PDF, 3.92 MB)
Additional resources:
- a new website has been developed to support small landholders – ‘Animals in drought‘
- watch this short (1 minute) video on ‘Why you need groundcover’ (1:14; published 29 November 2016 by FutureBeef)
- watch this video (5 minutes) on ‘Guide to pasture photo monitoring’ (5:14; published 27 April 2020 by FutureBeef)
- information on Dry season pasture budget: a guide for stocking rates (FutureBeef)
- information on Forage budgeting videos (FutureBeef)
- website Long Paddock (FORAGE)
Full recording
Playlist
- Resilience strategies for small landholders: Grazing land management & pasture recovery
- Grazing land management
- Land types and soils
- Land types affect pasture growth
- Soil health – functions and properties
- Soil health – plant available water content
- Soil health – nutrient availability
- Soil health – soil organic matter
- Soil health – groundcover management
- Managing soil limitations and at-risk areas
- Grazing ecosystem – Three gateway model
- Grazing land condition
- Features of a healthy pasture
- Some pastures and grass indicator species
- ‘ABCD’ land condition scoring
- Land in ‘A’ good condition
- Land in ‘B’ fair condition
- Land in ‘C’ poor condition
- Land in ‘D’ very poor condition
- The rolling ball – land condition
- Land condition affect pasture growth
- Maintaining land in good condition
- Land condition – the drivers
- Pasture and land condition resilience
- Grazing management tools
- Long term carrying capacity Vs Stocking rate
- Forage budgeting (balancing supply and demand)
- Safe utilisation rates
- Rest – a critical time is key
- Managing the grazing system
- Management of land types and soils
- Maintaining pasture and land condition
- Restoring pasture and land condition
- Resources