Sub-tropical pastures for southern meat producers

Summary

The MLA Feedbase R&D Plan identified a number of potential needs for new R&D on improved establishment and management of subtropical grass and legume species in pastures in some southern/temperate red meat producing regions. This project has reviewed past and current R&D activities and consulted with producers, researchers, advisers and pasture seed producers to develop a new collaborative research program to address the following aim:  
"To increase feedbase production and quality of subtropical grass based pastures through improved establishment and maintenance of legumes and other compatible forage components in targeted southern Australian red meat producing regions".  
The R&D planned will commence in 2012 and will involve activities across southern Queensland, central and northern inland New South Wales and southwest Western Australia.