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New from FORAGE: Drought duration report

The Drought Duration report is a new report available on the Long Paddock website. It shows the current drought situation and summarises the historical drought duration information in…
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Warning: don’t eat these seedlings!

Record rain in parts of Central Australia has led to a rare, mass seedling germination event! But don’t get excited, they’re not worth eating.

A tale of two La Niñas

  Generally a La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean heralds a chance of better than average rainfall over the spring and early summer season for the…
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Pasture dieback update — December 2021

After recent good rainfall across large areas of Queensland, graziers need to be to be on the look-out for pasture dieback. How to identify pasture dieback? Dieback causes…
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Mitchell grass death with Dr Phelps

In recent weeks there has been a lot of discussion regarding the cause of Mitchell grass death in the Australian rangelands, which prompted an active discussion on Twitter.…
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