Pastures

This theme includes conference papers from the conference sessions Developing new temperate legume pasture systems, Integrated pasture systems, Managing fertility in pastures, and Sustainable tropical pasture systems.

Desmanthus silage: a potential feed resource for the Northern Australian cattle industry
Stanley Amben, Chris Gardiner and Glen Walker

Small ruminants grazing regime as a sustainable management practice for Western Australia Wheatbelt cultivated lands
Mor-Mussery Amir

Tropical grass pastures have potential to enhance summer-autumn feed supply and improve profitability in a low rainfall mixed farming system
Kim Broadfoot, Warwick Badgery, Suzanne Boschma

Competitive interactions between serradella (Ornithopus spp.) and subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum) in mixed pasture swards
Olivia Brunton, Tegan Darch, Rebecca Haling, Jeff McCormick, Adam Stefanski, Richard
Simpson

Management solutions for pasture dieback: Outcomes of field research
Stuart Buck, Nicholas Brazier, David Reid

Diversity of winter biomass production in the Australian arrowleaf clover collection
Gereltsetseg Enkhbat, Phillip G. H. Nichols, Megan H. Ryan, William Erskine

Screening for waterlogging tolerance in subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.)
Gereltsetseg Enkhbat, Megan H. Ryan, Kevin J. Foster, Phillip G. H. Nichols, Lukasz Kotula, Ann Hamblin, Yoshiaki Inukai, William Erskine

Cover crops improved fallow efficiency in Queensland
Andrew Erbacher, David Lawrence, Brook Anderson and Neil Huth

Strategies to improve establishment of legume pastures to maximise break crop effects in low-rainfall environments
Flohr BM, Llewellyn R, McBeath T, Ballard R, Peck D, Davoren B and Shoobridge W

Winter cover crop biomass production and water use in southeast Queensland
Garba II, Apriani R, Chu D, Pg Yusof DY, and Williams A

Dairy farm nutrient management planning: Why is it important and what should be included?
Cameron Gourley and Jeff Kraak

Flowering by selected serradella and subterranean clover lines in response to vernalisation and photoperiod treatments
Goward L, Haling R, Smith R, Penrose B, and Simpson R

Development of new pasture systems in NW Victoria
RA Latta and M Moodie

Determination of the genetic basis for phenological diversity in a heterozygous wild-type accession of Lablab purpureus
Loch DS

Impact of phosphorus fertiliser on tropical pasture legume production
Justin P. Macor, Gavin Peck, Louise Newman, Bradley Taylor, and Andrew Mclean

The effect of nitrogen fertilisers on Phalaris aquatic L. pastures at low temperatures in south eastern NSWL. pastures at low temperatures in south eastern NSW
McCormick J and Malone R

Premier Digit and Progardes Desmanthus compete effectively for applied phosphorus under mixed sward conditions
Jonathan W. McLachlan, Mitchell L. Scrivener, Richard J. Flavel and Chris N. Guppy

Harvesting subterranean clover seed with peanut technology
W.M. Moss, P.G.H. Nichols , K.J. Foster, M.H. RyanB, and A.L. Guzzomi

Adoption of better agronomic practices for improving establishment of pasture legumes in the sub-tropics
Louise Newman, Gavin Peck and Stuart Buck

Natural selection for flowering time in a diverse subterranean clover population sown at five different rainfall sites in southern Australia
Phillip GH Nichols, Subash Chavva, Megan H Ryan, Bradley J Wintle and William Erskine

Subterranean clover flowering time in New Zealand
Teixeira C S P, Olykan S T, Lucas R J and Moot D J

Speed breeding methodologies delivers two new barrel medic cultivars to farmers within 6.5 years of breeding commencing
David Peck, Tom Damin

Experimental stylo accessions produce higher yields than commercial pasture legume varieties on light textured soils in southern Queensland
Gavin A. Peck, Brian Johnson, Louise Newman, Kendrick Cox, Tiago Silva, Joseph O’Reagain, Graham Kedzlie, Bradley Taylor and Andrew McLean

Field tolerance to pasture dieback of 26 tropical grass varieties sown into an affected paddock
Gavin A. Peck, Louise Newman, Justin Macor, Stuart Buck and Bradley Taylor

Cowpea aphids in lucerne-based pastures and photosensitisation of sheep
Jo Powells, Petrea Wait and Lou Baskind

Changes in dairy farming systems and their forage base in northern Victoria over the last twenty years
ME Rogers, AR Lawson, A McAllister, Y Williams and S Byrne

Potential for DMPP to increase pasture yields following repeated application
David Rowlings, Johannes Friedl, Daniele De Rosa, and Peter Grace

Genotype by environment interactions amongst diverse forage brassicas across Australia’s mixed farming zone
Lucy Watt, Lindsay Bell, Joanne De Faveri, Brett Cocks, Tony Swan, Rebecca Stutz, and Andrew Toovey