Integration and extrapolation ofregional grazing management sites, Temperate pasture Sustainability Key Program, sub program 5.1"
| Project start date: | 01 January 1995 |
| Project end date: | 01 February 1997 |
| Publication date: | 01 February 1997 |
| Project status: | Completed |
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Summary
The CSIRO Division of Plant Industry has developed a suite of decision support systems under the umbrella GRAZPLAN project. The applications include GrazFeed, LambAlive, MetAccess and GrassGro - a program incorporating biophysical models to assess how weather, soils and management factors combine to affect pastoral productivity and profitability.
This project was established to train a scientist from a State Department of Agriculture in the use of the GRAZPLAN decision support systems in general and GrassGro in particular. Data from the Temperate Pasture Sustainability Key Program (TPSKP) sites was to be used to evaluate the GrassGro pasture model. If this was successful GrassGro would then be used to extrapolate information gathered in the Key Program to other sites and over a longer range of seasons. Stephen Clark, Agriculture Victoria was seconded to CSIRO, Canberra in January 1995 for a two year period.
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| Project manager: | David Beatty |
| Primary researcher: | CSIRO |
