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Fire is a tool graziers can use to manage animal production and land condition. Like any tool it can be used or abused. Fire can be successfully used…
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The North Queensland sown pastures team have been stalking cattle to collect fresh dung samples to better understand the benefits of adding pasture legumes into native or sown…
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As many graziers across Queensland know, paddocks that once performed well don’t always stay that way. Two new trials recently initiated by the Department of Primary Industries at…
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The Demonstrating recovery of pasture productivity: Mulga Lands – Bollon project used four producer demonstration sites on three commercial properties to demonstrate recovery of pasture productivity, through pasture…
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With decades of experience in pasture improvement, the Anderson family near Theodore have tried and tested a number of tropical legumes including leucaena, desmanthus, stylos and more. In…
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Grazing land management is about managing your cattle to make the most of your pastures while maintaining or improving land condition and biodiversity.

In a recent article, the NQPRP team described our experience measuring the feed quality of legume-grass pastures grazed by steers and heifers in some of our north Queensland…
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Queensland’s Brigalow Belt is home to over 30% of the northern Australia beef cattle herd with large areas of highly fertile soils suitable to sown pastures. Inclusion of…
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Beef research facilities play an important role in taking scientific concepts and lab proven hypotheses into the practical world, answering questions such as: ‘How does it stack up…
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Native pastures are the primary source of feed for cattle production in the Katherine region. Introduced species have an important role as special purpose pastures. Part 1 (this Agnote) briefly describes the major pasture species and Part 2 (Agnote E69) outlines the common uses of introduced pastures.