Looking after drought pastures (PDF, 51KB)
Droughts and dry seasons frequently affect southern Australia, resulting in forage shortages and subsequent pasture stress. This Tip & Tool provides you management tactics to help you avoid potential problems with pasture survival, recovery and composition.
Tips & Tools: Managing weeds after drought (PDF, 91KB). A long lasting legacy of drought is the encroachment of weeds, which may have long-term production and environmental consequences. During drought, the increasing bare ground, decline in the competitiveness of perennial species and reduction in the soil seed bank reserves of desirable species make pastures vulnerable to weed invasion.
Using the MLA Rainfall to Pasture Growth Outlook Tool (PDF,134KB)
This factsheet outlines how to use the MLA Rainfall to Pasture Growth Outlook Tool. The tool is designed to help you understand how your pasture typically grows across the year, and how much this can vary between years.
Chicory as a perennial summer forage (PDF,107KB)
This factsheet outlines the benefits of chicory, what factors to consider, and how to prepare sow and manage chicory.
Using silage to finish lambs (PDF,45KB)
Explains how producers can improve lamb performance, meet market specifications, increase stocking rates and better use surplus pasture, by using high quality silage for lambs.
Tips & Tools Improving pasture use with the MLA Pasture Ruler 2004 (PDF,780KB)
This factsheet explains how to use the MLA pasture ruler. The MLA pasture ruler provides the basis for a quick and easy way to estimate pasture mass (quantity) and quality. These estimates become a guide to the performance you can expect from your grazing animals.
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