Queensland Pasture Resilience Program

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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Location: ‘Gundabah’, Middlemount Year established: 2020 Key messages Annual fertiliser has changed produced the largest yield every year and has changed the species composition from approximately half/half Indian…
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Pasture dieback was detected in new areas across western Queensland in the 2023/2024 summer, including the Mitchell, Charleville, Blackall and Jericho districts. Pasture dieback causes the death of…
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Pasture dieback is a rapidly developing concern in southern Queensland, with damage reported across many areas of the Border Rivers, Condamine, and Balonne catchments. Despite its widespread presence,…
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The Improving Grazing Land Management (IGLM) project within the Queensland Pasture Resilience Program (QPRP), focusses on native pasture production systems. A key part of the IGLM project is…
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The challenge of seasonal nutritional deficits North Queensland typically has summer dominant rainfall from November to April, which is then followed by a consistent and extended dry period…
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Despite recent widespread rain, landholders gathered at Miles for the fully subscribed ‘Productive and Persistent Legume Pastures’ workshop, with a waitlist already growing for the next round in…
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In the last Newsletter, we highlighted the importance of planning and preparation in establishing a productive and persistent legume pasture. This edition, we shift focus to determining the…
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Why plant legumes? Healthy legumes can significantly boost your pasture’s carrying capacity. Economically, adding legumes is the best long-term option for increasing the productivity of rundown pastures. Once…
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During the 2023/24 summer we saw the spread of pasture dieback across new areas of Queensland and New South Wales. As the summer growing season reached its peak…
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