Resources
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The Fertilising for yield and quality in grass pastures and forage crops: Scoping study investigated the feasibility of using strategic applications of nitrogen fertiliser in a range of…
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The Demonstrating recovery of pasture productivity: Mulga Lands – Bollon project used four producer demonstration sites on three commercial properties to demonstrate recovery of pasture productivity, through pasture…
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The Demonstrating the impacts of land preparation techniques on leucaena establishment and productivity project investigated establishment options for leucaena that minimised costs and reduced production time. When: 1…
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The Breeding a psyllid-resistant Leucaena hybrid for northern Australia – Phase 2 project continued the work of previous breeding programs aiming to produce a psyllid-resistant variety of leucaena…
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The Economic performance of beef cattle finishing systems used on the North-Eastern Downs project was set up as part of the Implementation of Producer Demonstration Sites to increase…
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The Leucaena – the case for developing a sterile variety project evaluated the technical feasibility of developing sterile leucaena using two contrasting methodologies: genetic modification and hybrid breeding…
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The Impacts of leucaena plantations on greenhouse gas emissions in northern Australian cattle production systems project was conducted with steers grazing established leucaena or grass pastures to determine…
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The aim of this book is to provide information and knowledge on sown and native pasture systems in a form readily accessible to Mackay Whitsunday region’s graziers and land managers.
Introduced pasture species have an important role in the Katherine region as special purpose pastures within a predominantly native pasture grazing system. This Agnote outlines some of the more common uses of these species.
Native pastures are the primary source of feed for cattle production in the Katherine region. Introduced species have an important role as special purpose pastures. Part 1 (this Agnote) briefly describes the major pasture species and Part 2 (Agnote E69) outlines the common uses of introduced pastures.