Did you know?
- Legumes can provide high quality feed in the dry season when native pastures decline
- Well managed pastures can last 30 years
- Good pasture management will reduce supplement bills each year
- Legumes increase soil nitrogen to benefit grasses and legumes and help improve overall productivity
- Legumes can help droughtproof your property
- Legumes can help mitigate methane gas emissions.
This project aims to help North Queensland graziers develop and improve legume-based sown pastures by:
- demonstrating a range of sown legume systems in commercial livestock production areas
- generating animal and pasture production data, enabling reliable economic analysis to inform decision making
- researching refined livestock business management strategies
- providing one-on-one mentoring and support to producers who would like to incorporate legumes in their paddocks
- helping producers grow their knowledge and skills through sown pastures workshops and tailored learning opportunities.
Who do we assist?
- beef enterprises in the seasonally dry tropics of north Queensland, as well as the tropical coast and tablelands.
We can help you by:
- developing personalised pasture plans for your property
- monitoring land condition and developing grazing management strategies for your legume pastures
- providing practical assistance and advice before, during and after sowing and helping you source seed
- mapping and soil testing
- offering learning opportunities such as workshops.
Meet the team
Find out the results from some of the NQ teams demonstration sites and more information:
- Economic Evaluation of Leucaena and Stylo Pastures at Goshen Station
- Economic Evaluation of Leucaena at Pinnarendi Station
- Managing tropical pasture seed
The NQ pasture team is part of the Queensland Pasture Resilience Program, which is a partnership between the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Meat & Livestock Australia through the MLA Donor Company
