MFS - Establishing persistent and productive new legumes

Summary

This producer participatory R&D project aimed to identify the value of alternative legumes (based on their establishment success, persistence and production) compared with the traditional legumes that are used in the Monaro region of NSW and the effectiveness of sowing these new legumes into existing pasture swards to increase pasture and animal production.  It also evaluated the role of sowing time on legume performance and persistence.
In addition this project aimed to document nodulation status and occupancy of subterranean clovers in the Monaro region to understand the current level of rhizobium performance and associated factors that may be limiting this performance.