Scientific journal publications from the Improving profitability and resilience of grazing businesses in Queensland project

These scientific journal publications were written as part of the Improving profitability and resilience of grazing businesses in Queensland project.

Bowen MK, Chudleigh F, Sallur NM, Sommerfield J (2022) Opportunities to build resilience of beef cattle properties in the mulga lands of south-western Queensland, Australia. The Rangeland Journal 44, 115-128. doi: 10.1071/RJ21057. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/pdf/RJ21057

Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2022) Can a return to small ruminants increase profitability and drought resilience in the semiarid rangelands of northern Australia? Animal Production Science 62, 975-982. doi: 10.1071/AN21422. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/an/pdf/AN21422

Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2021) Achieving drought resilience in the grazing lands of northern Australia: preparing, responding and recovering. The Rangeland Journal 43, 67-76 doi: 1071/RJ20058. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/pdf/RJ20058

Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2021) An economic framework to evaluate alternative management strategies for beef enterprises in northern Australia. Animal Production Science 61, 271-281. doi: 10.1071/AN20125. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/an/pdf/AN20125

Bowen MK, Chudleigh F, Phelps D (2021) Bio-economic evaluation of grazing-management options for beef cattle enterprises during drought episodes in semiarid grasslands of northern Australia. Animal Production Science 61, 72-83. doi: 10.1071/AN19691. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN19691

Bowen MK, Chudleigh F, Dixon RM, Sullivan MT, Schatz T, Oxley T (2020) The economics of phosphorus supplementation of beef cattle grazing northern Australian rangelands. Animal Production Science 60, 683-693. doi: 10.1071/AN19088. Available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN19088

Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2019) Productivity and profitability of alternative steer growth paths resulting from accessing high quality forage systems in the subtropics of northern Australia: a modelling approach. Animal Production Science 59, 1739-1751. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN18311

Chudleigh F, Bowen M, Holmes B (2019) Farm economic thinking and the genetic improvement of fertility in northern beef herds. In ‘Proceedings of the 63rd Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) Annual Conference’. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Available at https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/285095?ln=en

Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2018) Grazing pressure, land condition, productivity and profitability of beef cattle grazing buffel grass pastures in the subtropics of Australia: a modelling approach. Animal Production Science 58, 1451-1458. doi: 10.1071/AN17780. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN17780

The project was funded by the Queensland Government’s Drought and Climate Adaptation Program (2017-2021).

For more information about the project please contact the project leader—Dr Maree Bowen, DPI Rockhampton at maree.bowen@dpi.qld.gov.au.


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