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Use of fire in grazed woodlands — Queensland

Key messages Some woody species respond differently to fire. A high fuel load is needed to impact suckers and reduce canopy cover. Stock may need to be removed…
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Degradation – gradual process or event driven?

Grazing trials have shown the impact of stocking rate (SR) to be variable in terms of profitability and sustainability. The impact of management on land condition, both positive…
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Phosphorus supplementation for improved productivity and profitability of beef businesses – Part 2

This is the fifth and final webinar in the BeefConnect ‘Improving beef business performance across northern Australia’ series. In this webinar, Rob Dixon (Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and…
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Kangaroo grass

Our native grasses still provide the most significant portion of grazing for beef and sheep in northern Australia. So it is worth getting to know something more about…
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GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience — Case studies

Case studies of changes made by landholders as part of the GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience program and the resulting benefits.

Investigating the risk of oxalate poisoning for cows grazing irrigated buffel grass

Buffel grass is a valued pasture species for livestock in Central Australia. Typically, it occurs with native grasses and is capable of producing large amounts of palatable, nutritious…
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Perennial grasses are there for the long haul – if you look after them!

Annual grasses like button and flinders grass come and go. But perennials like desert bluegrass (Bothriochloa ewartiana) are there for years, producing forage in even the worst seasons.…
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Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part IV: The Kimberley rehabilitation program and lessons for the Great Barrier Reef catchments

Project RRRD.024 Final Report for the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. This project investigated the potential to mechanically rehabilitate…
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Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part III: Economic analysis of rehabilitation techniques in the Burdekin River catchment to improve water quality flowing from grazing lands onto the Great Barrier Reef

Project RRRD.024 Final Report for the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. This project investigated the potential to mechanically rehabilitate…
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Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part II: Literature review of rehabilitation methods to improve water quality flowing from grazing lands onto the Great Barrier Reef

Project RRRD.024 Final Report for the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. This project investigated the potential to mechanically rehabilitate…
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