Feedbase hub
Manage your pastures for optimal performance with practical resources found here on our feedbase hubs.
These hubs bring together the latest R&D on soil, pasture and weed management to increase pasture production, quality and persistence.
Featuring case studies, calculators, reference guides and training packages, the hubs offer plenty of practical information to support your decisions throughout the season.
Soil is the foundation of any productive pasture. Healthy, fertile soils drive pasture productivity and deliver environmental benefits through improved water and nutrient use. Use soils tests to determine the potential of your paddocks, identify any limiting nutrients or constraints and develop a strategy to optimise production. Visit our healthy soils hub for tips and tools on soil testing, interpretation and visual inspections.
When it comes to persistent pastures, selecting the right pastures for your system, sowing in the right place at the right time and managing for the seasons is a strategy for success. There are many considerations when it comes to managing pastures for persistence - environment, varieties, composition, inputs, establishment and grazing management. Work through these considerations with resources on our persistent pastures hub.
Reduce competition from weeds to enable pastures to thrive. Effective weed control results in reduced costs, higher carrying capacity, nutritious feeds and greater livestock returns. Use the weed control hub to work through identification, interventions and tactics to prevent, manage and eliminate problem species.
Managing your grazing land well is a key profit driver which underpins the health of your livestock business. Here you can find all the grazing land management resources and learning opportunities to help you improve the management and utilisation of your feedbase.
Resources
Managing forage brassicas in Australian mixed farming regions
Forage brassicas can provide quick and abundant feed, which is high in quality, producing excellent livestock weight gains.
Feedbase ‘How do I…?’ fact sheets
Grazing management of grasses:
- How do I know if my perennial grasses need rescuing?
- How do I get perennial grasses to thrive and survive? A resource for advisors
- How do I optimise perennial grass management in late spring and summer? A resource for advisors
- How do I optimise seedling recruitment to avoid resowing?
- How do I remove excess mature reproductive pasture?
Grazing management of sub-clovers:
- How do I determine why my sub-clover is underperforming?
- How do I identify sub-clover cultivars?
- How do I optimise sub-clover based pastures?
- How do I maximise sub-clover establishment in existing pastures?
- How do I manage grazing to maximise sub-clover seed set?
- How do I get the soil conditions right to grow good sub-clover?
