Pastures

Important principles of pasture management demonstrated within the Cicerone Project’s grazed farmlet experiment: some personal reflections
Jim Scott

Increasing soil fertility and altering legume-grass balance as adaptation strategies for sustainable livestock production under climate change
Afshin Ghahramani and Andrew D. Moore

Southern Australian feed-base pasture audit
Graham Donald, Stuart Burge and Cameron Allan

The advantages and disadvantages of pasture cropping in Western Australia
Phil Barrett-Lennard, Perry Dolling and David Ferris

Opportunities for grazing crop/pasture intercrops
Penny Roberts Craig, David Coventry and Janelle Hocking Edwards

Potential of  Desmanthus spp. in northern New South Wales
Suzanne P. Boschma, Graham J. Crocker, Bruce C. Pengelly and Steven Harden

EverFarm: Piloting a strategic decision making process to improve grazing farm systems.
Alison Southwell, Michael Reynolds, Geoff Saul, Lloyd Kingham

New tall fescue cultivars for medium to low rainfall environments in southern Australia
Carol Harris, Steve Clark, Richard Culvenor, Guangdi Li, Matthew Gardner, Richard Hayes, Zhongnan Nie, Mark Norton and Bronwen Clark

Novel Cocksfoots for SE Australia – Establishment and production
Steve Clark, Richard Culvenor, Matthew Gardner, Carol Harris, Richard Hayes, Guangdi Li, Zhongnan Nie, Mark Norton and Bronwen Clark

Seasonal production of coloured brome (Bromus coloratus Steud) cv. Exceltas, a new high quality perennial temperate pasture grass
Eric Halland Andrea Hurst

Evaluating new phalaris populations for lower rainfall margins in SE Australia
Richard Culvenor, Steve Clark, Guangdi Li, Matthew Gardner, Carol Harris, Richard Hayes, Zhongnan Nie and Mark Norton

Assessment of  Lotus tenuis for desirable seed production characteristics
Peter Lane, David Parsons, Phillipa Green and Eric Hall

Leucaena: Highlighting the value of good agronomy for establishing pasture systems.
Stuart Buck, Gavin Peck, Brian Johnson and David Lawrence

Companion legume species maximise productivity of chicory (Cichoruim intybus)
Guangdi Li, Richard Hayes, Matthew Gardner, Jeff McCormick, Matt Newell, Graeme Sandral, Richard Lowrie and Hao Zhang

A survey of farmer practice on the establishment, duration and production of pastures in the mixed farming zone of southern New South Wales
Jeff McCormick, Guangdi Li, Richard Hayes, Geoff Casburn, Matt Gardner, Graeme Sandral, Mark Peoples and Tony Swan

Crop yield, pasture yield, and environmental impact of pasture cropping with sub-tropical perennials. 
Phil Ward, David Ferris, Roger Lawes, Nicola Palmer, Shayne Micin and Phil Barrett-Lennard

Low-input, high-quality legume hays for north Queensland.
Kendrick Cox, Mark Keating, Steven Dayes and Chris Gardiner

Nutritive value of silage from perennial ryegrass, plantain and lucerne pastures in south west Victoria
Margaret Raeside, Zhongnan Nie, Jean Lamb, Alan Byron and Ralph Behrendt

Summer sowing: a new alternative technique to introduce annual pasture legumes into mixed farming systems
Angelo Loi, B.J. Nutt, R. Yates and M. D’Antuono

Success of perennial pasture establishment at different sowing times and under a cover crop in the mixed farming zone
Guangdi Li, Richard Hayes, Jeff McCormick, Matthew Gardner, Graeme Sandral, Mark Peoples, Tony Swan and Richard Lowrie

To under-sow or not? A decision support tool to determine the most profitable method of pasture establishment
Jeff McCormick, Richard Hayes, Guangdi Li, Tom Nordblom, Geoff Casburn, Tim Hutchings, Andrew D. Moore, Eric Zurcher, Mark Peoples and Tony Swan

A survey of land use and management, North-West Slopes of New South Wales
Sean R. Murphyand Peter T. Sanson

Identifying lucerne growers’ usage and needs through a survey for breeding new generation lucerne varieties 
Shoba Venkatanagappa

Pasture legume production severely reduced when co-sown with winter forage cereals
Lindsay Bell, John Lawrence, Simon Jasper and Chris Guppy

Graziers, pasture seed industry and researchers are concerned about pasture productivity decline. 
Gavin Peck, David Lawrence, Stuart Buck and Brian Johnson

Tasmanian pasture resource audit: Snapshot of functional group composition in 2011
Rowan Smith, Ross Corkrey, Gary Martin, Brian Field and Peter Ball

Seed rain of Microlaena stipoides
Meredith Mitchell, Jim Virgona, Joe Jacobs and David Kemp

Austrodanthonia spp. in grazed native pastures on the Monaro tableland, NSW
Jo Powells, Denys Garden, Luke Pope, Douglas Alcock and Karl Grigulis

The germination, passage and viability of Desmanthus virgatus (L.) Willenow seed through sheep and its implication for dispersal in tropical rangelands
Chris Gardiner, Carole Wright and Michele Coventry

Improving mineral availability for grazing livestock in Australian pasture systems by using plantain and lucerne
Margaret Raeside, Zhongnan Nie and Ralph Behrendt

Weed control options for pasture cropping systems in the West Midlands of Western Australia
John Borger and David Ferris

Evaluating the importance of a potential source of error when applying shoot 15N labelling techniques to legumes to quantify the below-ground transfer of nitrogen to other species 
Matthew Gardner, Mark Peoples, Jason Condon, Guangdi Li, Mark Conyers and Brian Dear

The search for sustainable stocking rates on Chinese desert steppe
David Kemp, Han Guodong, David Michalk, Wang Zhongwu and Zhou Mengli

Use of non fertiliser “growth promotants” as alternatives to urea on high production pastures
Neil Griffiths, Peter Beale and Craig Muir

Hard seed breakdown rates of six tropical ley pasture legumes.
John Lawrence, Lindsay Bell and Marie Breton