Although grazing lands are more profitable at higher land conditions, rehabilitation of D condition
land requires mechanical or chemical intervention (B. Shepherd, pers comm). These interventions
can incur a significant capital expense. The effectiveness of mechanical soil disturbance treatments in
rehabilitating degraded land were quantified in a trial conducted at the Queensland Government’s
Spyglass Beef Research Facility. The soil disturbance treatments included deep ripping, chisel
ploughing and crocodile plough seeding. All treatments were compared to
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