Crops, Pasture and Fodder

Articles, case studies and trial results relating to Grain and Graze 2's Crops, Pasture and Fodder projects can be found through the following links

Crops, pasture and fodder

South

Break crop market research for the high rainfall zone

Market research condcuted in 2010 to understand the motivations, attitudes and issues for growers and advisors using fodder (legume) break crops
772KB
10/06/2016
Back to the Future at Bute returning to sheep for grass control and profit
2.7MB
05/11/2014
How much water and nitrogen is under your boots and what will you do with it?
2.1MB
28/04/2014
Know your soil's water holding capacity and maybe make the most of summer crop opportunities
2.7MB
14/02/2014
Soil Moisture & Decision Making - Three heads are better than one
2.1MB
14/02/2014
Links between MacKillop FMG and agribusiness extends research findings to more farmers
1.0MB
07/02/2014
Soil Sampling for Yield Prophet
447KB
24/01/2014
More soil characterizations mean Yield Prophet is easier to use
616KB
24/01/2014
Balancing crop safety and effectiveness when using Pre-Emergent Herbicides
978KB
24/01/2014
Focus on the Feed Gap
537KB
26/11/2013
You've filled the Autumn feed gap - now what?
947KB
14/10/2013
Filling the Autumn Feed Gap
363KB
10/10/2013
Wet soils shortcut soil water capacity measurement
525KB
19/08/2013
Soil Sampling for Yield Prophet
447KB
19/08/2013
Improved crop production in response to intensively grazed improved legume pastures
2.0MB
04/12/2012
Improving Feed Utilisation
3.3MB
01/06/2011

Practical Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Enriching upper EP forage options 2013
298KB
12/06/2014
Evaluation of perennial forage legumes on Eyre Peninsula 2012
521KB
13/03/2013
Know your soil’s water holding capacity
5.5MB
10/02/2013
Three heads are better than one
1.1MB
16/07/2012
Evaluation of perennial forage legumes on Eyre Peninsula
96KB
16/04/2012
Grazing systems management into 2030
331KB
16/04/2012
Potential use of fertilisers and trace elements on Tumby Bay Hills SheepConnect SA focus farm
113KB
16/04/2012
Annual Medic Wheat Rotation at MAC
85KB
16/04/2012
Alternative winter pastures
167KB
17/11/2011
Pasture Options Book
5.7MB
01/06/2011

Livestock

View research results as published in the Eyre Peninsula Farming Systems Summaries, an annual publication produced by the Minnipa Agricultural Centre.

Management strategies to improve lamb weaning percentages
238KB
12/06/2014
Reducing sheep methane emissions through improved forage quality
129KB
12/06/2014
The impact of livestock on paddock health
139KB
12/06/2014
The impact of livestock on paddock health 2012
750KB
13/03/2013
Benchmarking your sheep enterprise 2012
513KB
13/03/2013
Identifying causes for lamb losses in low rainfall mixed farming regions
528KB
13/03/2013
Livestock options in dry times 2012
439KB
13/03/2013
Using breeding values for genetic benchmarking in EP Merino sheep enterprises
511KB
13/03/2013
Extending best practice wool innovations on Eyre Peninsula
159KB
16/04/2012
Practical ram selection
78KB
16/04/2012
Should sheep come into my farming business?
57KB
16/04/2012
The impact of livestock on paddock health
98KB
16/04/2012
EPFS Summary Livestock Section 2010
614KB
16/04/2012

Weeds

Farmer Insights

YP Farmer puts Grain & Graze 2 funded brome grass research into practice
1.8MB
25/05/2014
We grow vetch because we want our children to be farmers!
1.5MB
14/02/2014
Rotational Grazing Revitalises Ruth Robinson's Mid-North Property
725KB
10/10/2013
Year round feed (Josh Buerckner)
1.6MB
22/08/2013
Trevor Gum Case Study
672KB
16/10/2012
Managing the feed gap (David Smith)
1.1MB
30/03/2012
Looking for flexibilty (Paul Oxbrow)
1.0MB
30/03/2012
Improving animal nutrition (Tim Hewitt)
1.1MB
30/03/2012

Livestock

Sheep Connect - June 2012
131KB
20/07/2012
Sheep Connect - January 2009
2.1MB
01/06/2011
Sheep Connect - February 2010
1.8MB
01/06/2011
Sheep Connect - February 2011
529KB
01/06/2011
Sheep Connect - April 2011
2.0MB
01/06/2011

Pasture and fodder species

Sulla - a new break crop for EP?
140KB
12/06/2014
Kikuyu catching on on KI
2.4MB
28/04/2014
Sold on Sulla
680KB
04/12/2013
Establishing and managing perennial phase pastures 2012
550KB
13/03/2013
Establishing perennial shrubs for mixed farming systems on EP
616KB
13/03/2013
Powdery mildew resistant medics for the EP and Mallee 2012
554KB
13/03/2013
Enrich Incorporating a perennial shrub feedbase into mixed farming systems on Eyre Peninsula
162KB
16/04/2012
Lamb production from spring-summer grazing of forage brassica
145KB
30/03/2012
Forages for a new climate
159KB
17/11/2011
Irrigated Legumes for fodder
26KB
17/11/2011
Forages for a changing climate
89KB
17/11/2011
Kikuyu pastures the quality and quantity
203KB
16/06/2011
Saltbush on Eyre Peninsula
4.4MB
01/06/2011

Weed management

Select Sulla in the rotation for ryegrass control
2.6MB
05/11/2014
Brome Grass Trials
1.5MB
02/10/2013
Fact Sheet - Kikuyu Shows Multiple Benefits on KI
368KB
06/09/2013
Fact Sheet - Brome Herbicides
680KB
23/07/2013
Fact Sheet - Brome IWM
933KB
23/07/2013

Pasture cropping

Native Pasture Cropping
113KB
30/03/2012
Native pasture cropping
183KB
17/11/2011

West

Practical Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Farmer Insights

Keeping it simple on small but productive mixed farm - Andrew and Susan Marsh
787KB
15/01/2014
Crops pay off in sheep country - Ben and Emily Webb
676KB
15/01/2014
Pasture cropping boosts kikuyu pasture productivity - Andrew and Fiona Kuss
1.1MB
22/06/2013
Barley handles a beating - Matt, Kerry, Mick and Moya Carne
1.2MB
31/05/2013
Pasture Cropping, a solution to control silver grass in kikuyu - Erica Ayers and Phil Cleghorn
892KB
13/02/2013
Building the flock while improving the crop at Yeringa - Greg & Lyn Yates
485KB
12/08/2012
Keeping flexible and adopting technologies key to Rob's farming success - Robert & Jennifer Egerton-Warburton
743KB
12/08/2012