Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publisher

Department of Agriculture Western Australia

Publication Date

12-8-2003

Keywords

Saltland, Pasture, Saltbush, Nutritive-value, Feeding value, Sheep performance, Satellite, Pasture Biomass, Feed on offer, Pasture growth rate, Sheep, intensive spring grazing, Strip/ration grazing, Lucerne, Grazing, Perennial, French serradella, Hardseed, Pasture legumes, Sub tropical perennial pasture, Grass, Legume, Climate, Soil type, Farmer groups

Disciplines

Animal Experimentation and Research | Comparative Nutrition | Plant Biology | Sheep and Goat Science | Soil Science

Abstract

This session covers seven papers from different authors: 1. Pastures for saline land, Ed Barrett-Lennard 1Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Hayley Norman, Robyn Dynes and David Masters CSIRO Livestock Industries, Centre for Mediterranean Agricultural Research, Floreat Park, 2. Feeding value - the essential link between pastures and animals CSIRO Livestock Industries, Centre for Environmental and Life Sciences 3. ‘Pastures from space’ - how do we do it, how well do we do it and what do producers think about it? Stephen Gherardi Department of Agriculture Western Australia Graham Donald Asoka Edirisinghe Dave Henry CSIRO Livestock Industries Chris Oldham Department of Agriculture Western Australia Richard Smith Department of Land Information Joanne Sneddon University of Western Australia Mike Hyder Department of Agriculture Western Australia Andrew Thompson Department of Primary Industries, Hamilton Victoria Kazue Tanaka Roy Latta Department of Agriculture Western Australia Chris Matthews CRC for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity Brad Nutt Department of Agriculture Western Australia Angelo Loi, Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture, UWA Tim Wiley, Department of Agriculture Western Australia

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