Resilience strategies for small landholders Part 1: Grazing land management and pasture recovery

This series of Resilience strategies for small landholders recorded webinars is focused on supporting small landholders during times of drought and the subsequent recovery processes. This is part 1 of a 5-part webinar series.

In this presentation, Bruce Lord (Healthy Land and Water) discusses the factors relating to grazing land management and pasture recovery including:

1. Land types
2. Soil health
3. Grazing land condition
4. Pasture and grass indicator species
5. ABCD land condition scoring
6. Grazing management tools
7. And many more…

During the presentation, Bruce also discusses restoring and maintaining land condition.

You can watch the full recording or use the playlist below to jump to the start of a particular section within the presentation. 31:17; published 12 May 2020 by FutureBeefAu.

Download a copy of the presentation – Grazing land management and pasture recovery (PDF, 3.92 MB)

Additional resources:

• resilience strategies for small landholders Part 2: Managing climate variability and the maintenance feed requirements for horses, sheep and goats
• resilience strategies for small landholders Part 3: Drought plans and maintenance feed requirements for cattle
• resilience strategies for small landholders Part 4: Duty of care to animals
• resilience strategies for small landholders Part 5: When euthanasia is the best option
• a new website has been developed to support small landholders – ‘Animals in drought‘
• watch this short (1 minute) video on ‘Why you need groundcover’ (1:14; published 29 November 2016 by FutureBeef)
• watch this video (5 minutes) on ‘Guide to pasture photo monitoring’ (5:14; published 27 April 2020 by FutureBeef)
• information on Dry season pasture budget: a guide for stocking rates (FutureBeef)
• information on Forage budgeting videos (FutureBeef)
• website Long Paddock (FORAGE)
• Online booklet: Dry season management of a beef business 
• Agbiz farm budgeting tools (Business Queensland)

Full recording

Playlist

1. Resilience strategies for small landholders: Grazing land management & pasture recovery
2. Grazing land management
3. Land types and soils
4. Land types affect pasture growth
5. Soil health – functions and properties
6. Soil health – plant available water content
7. Soil health – nutrient availability
8. Soil health – soil organic matter
9. Soil health – groundcover management
10. Managing soil limitations and at-risk areas
11. Grazing ecosystem – Three gateway model
12. Grazing land condition
13. Features of a healthy pasture
14. Some pastures and grass indicator species
15. ‘ABCD’ land condition scoring
16. Land in ‘A’ good condition
17. Land in ‘B’ fair condition
18. Land in ‘C’ poor condition
19. Land in ‘D’ very poor condition
20. The rolling ball – land condition
21. Land condition affect pasture growth
22. Maintaining land in good condition
23. Land condition – the drivers
24. Pasture and land condition resilience
25. Grazing management tools
26. Long term carrying capacity Vs Stocking rate
27. Forage budgeting (balancing supply and demand)
28. Safe utilisation rates
29. Rest – a critical time is key
30. Managing the grazing system
31. Management of land types and soils
32. Maintaining pasture and land condition
33. Restoring pasture and land condition
34. Resources