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- Library Collection RecordLivestock producers desire improved tools to assess the quality and quantity of pasture on offer to adjust stocking rates and provide timely protein and energy supplementation. The NDVI (Normalised…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- diet quality
- livestock productivity
- Mitchell grass
- NDVI
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports on a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) completed for the Queensland Government’s Reef Plan Grazing Best Management Practice (BMP) extension project in the Burdekin catchment,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- extension and education
- grazing bmp.
- Project evaluation
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAlthough 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…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPastoral Profit is a new extension program which directly addresses the challenges posed by many pastoral livestock producers by targeting business management skills to improve bottom lines,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Windorah
- Queensland
- Wool Innovation
- Library Collection RecordThis poster is a case study on the changes in pasture yield, cover and defoliation after the establishment of a new bore. This case study is part of a larger, long-term stocking rate and wet season…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- cover
- Mitchell grass
- pasture spelling
- stocking rate
- yield
- Library Collection RecordThis project seeks to improve the evidence base and modelling capacity underpinning recommendations for the use of wet season spelling to recover poor condition grazing land and design more reliable…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- basal area
- pasture yield
- Library Collection RecordLarge, extensively grazed paddocks in Australian rangelands are often poorly watered, which causes overgrazing close to water and relatively ungrazed areas further from water. To adjust for watered…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- grazing radius
- watered area
- Library Collection RecordBeef producers in northern Australia are struggling to cope with climate extremes and have experienced poor and declining profitability over the last decade. Producers on their own have difficulty…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- benchmarking
- business analysis
- climate change
- profitability
- Library Collection RecordThe VegMachine software was developed in 2002 by a national team of RD&E providers, and funded by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA). The software was designed primarily as a vegetation cover…Publication Date 2015
- remote sensing
- Australia
- ground cover
- Queensland
- remote sensing
- VegMachine
- Library Collection RecordObjectively monitoring trend in the state of Australia’s grazed rangelands has proven elusive because of their extensive area and considerable spatial and temporal variability. National archives of…Publication Date 2015
- state
- Australia
- change
- cover deficit
- ground cover
- Landsat
- persistence
- state
- Library Collection RecordThere is a need for beef businesses to regularly collect and analyse data about cattle and pasture performance, to benchmark and improve business performance, to set and adjust stocking rates, to…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- decision support system
- precision agriculture
- technology development
- Library Collection RecordBeef producers throughout Australia’s rangelands commonly identify predation by wild dogs as a significant threat to calf survival. Lethal control of wild dogs is often advocated as a means to…Publication Date 2015
- predation
- 1080
- Australia
- Dingo
- mesopredator
- wild dog
- Library Collection RecordRangeland pastoralism has existed in Australia for almost as long as white settlement. While the basic products have not changed over time, beef, sheep meat and wool, the production processes have…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- change
- debt.
- financial literacy
- Library Collection RecordAccess to reliable digital communication technology is the norm for most Australians. The exponential growth of smartphone use continues to revolutionise the way in which Australians conduct their…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands Cluster Project has been working to facilitate the inclusion of climate change science in natural resource management planning across some of the driest and hottest country on earth…Publication Date 2015
- climate change
- research
- adaptation
- Australia
- collaboration
- knowledge broker
- NRM planning
- Library Collection RecordThe National Rangeland NRM Alliance (The Alliance) is a collaboration of 14 rangelands natural resource management bodies operating across 81 per cent of Australia’s landmass. The group works…Publication Date 2015
- investment
- Australia
- collaboration
- policy
- rangeland
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Droughts are common on California rangelands. • The current drought in California is listed as severe or exceptional for most of the state. • The drought has affected rangeland, and…Publication Date 2014-10-01
- drought
- California
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Ecosystem services are the wide array of benefits that people gain from natural ecosystems but many are not paid for nor is their future supply guaranteed. • Many attempts are being…Publication Date 2014-04-01
- ecosystem services
- stewardship
- rangelands
- ecological site descriptions
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Toxic larkspur (Delphinium species) cause large economic losses from cattle deaths, increased management costs, and reduced utilization of pastures and rangelands. • We recommend that…Publication Date 2014-02-01
- alkaloids
- Delphinium
- larkspur
- cattle
- beef
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordA global conference/proceedings held in different locations around the world. It was held in Argentina in 2011. In 2016, the conference will be held in Saskatoon, Canada. Links to various papers and…Publication Date 2014
- rangelands
- conferences
- global
- international
- Library Collection RecordUsing principles established by Maslow the relationship between a manager's needs and the stocking strategy he adopts is explored. Conclusions from economic and social surveys of the arid zone…Publication Date 2014
- arid Australia
- Australia
- Land Acts
- principles
- Library Collection RecordAt present the only penalty that land administrators may use in managing a lease is forfriture. There is a need for administrators to be able to use less severe penalties. A system of fines is…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAt the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, Deniliquin, a project to identify the impact of economic, administrative, and social influences on rangeland management has begun. This paper…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordIt would be fair to say that this society was created because a group of rangeland scientists arrived at the conclusion that there was a need for change in which Australian rangelands are used and…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- created
- objectives
- Library Collection RecordClimate change is expected to adversely affect agriculture in South Africa. A rise in variable and unfavourable conditions is likely to surpass the limits of current coping mechanisms of farmers,…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- agriculture
- livestock
- Karoo
- rangelands
- Subsistence farming
- communal farming
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordForage legumes have the potential to contribute substantially to warm-season, subtropical and tropical pastures and rangelands. Compared to grasses, they have advantages in accessing subsoil…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- pastures
- rangelands
- legumes
- forage ecology
- nutrients
- management
- agriculture
- nutritional value
- Library Collection RecordQuestions How do recent patterns of drought-induced woody plant mortality in Texas semi-arid savanna compare to the extended drought of the 1950s? Does the relative composition of the woody plant…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- climatic variability
- dieback
- Flash drought
- grazing
- Juniperus
- Legacy effect
- rangelands
- scale
- State transition
- Vegetation Change
- woody encroachment
- drought
- savanna
- indigenous encroaching species
- grazing
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordAs a textbook, the volume is well organised, with introductory chapters on the scope and key concepts of restoration ecology, followed by chapters on its ecological foundations – landscape,…Publication Date 2014
- restoration ecology
- Europe
- USA
- Australia
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe mitchell grass pastures of northern New South Wales are economically important to the grazing industry and occur mainly in the 375 mm to 475 mm annual rainfall zone. Expansion of the wheatbelt…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- cultivation
- Grazing Industry
- Mitchell grass
- Northern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe expansion of cropping into pastoral country of south -west New South Wales is discussed, along with an examination of the types of country involved. Bare fallowing is a practice necessary in…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Cropping
- marginal lands
- Southwest New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe Problem of Woody Weeds Woody weeds ( "scrub regrowth ") are the main cause of reduced productivity over large areas of western N.S.W. There are many genera and species involved in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- chemical control
- western New South Wales
- woody weeds
- Library Collection RecordThe pre -settlement fire regime had a major influence on vegetation. Pastoral activities significantly modified the fire regime by altering the vegetation, the suppression of wildfires and deliberate…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- control
- prescribed burns
- western New South Wales
- wildfires
- Library Collection RecordFire occurs infrequently in Australia's most extensive plant community, the mulga lands (see map 3, Moore 1970) . Under present management, the average interval between fires would be in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- controversial
- Eastern Rangelands
- fire
- Mulga Communities
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, was the last of the feral mammals to reach Central Australia. The rabbit had reached the N.T. border from NW South Australia in small numbers by 1901 (…Publication Date 2014
- abundance
- Australia
- Central Australia
- distribution
- European Rabbits
- Northern Territory
- Oryctolagus cuniculus
- rabbits
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordTropical and subtropical rangeland systems provide core ecosystem services for the welfare of human populations that rely on readiness and quality of forage resources. However, forage species are…Publication Date 2014
- Landscape genetics
- Plant population dynamics
- population genetics
- Tropical rangeland systems
- Themeda australis
- rangelands
- Themed atriandra
- ecosystem services
- genetics
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe amount and type of labour used on pastoral properties in the north east of South Australia is examined. Two different strategies in the amount of labour employed to handle the same number of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Labour
- Northeast of South Australia
- pastoral properties
- Library Collection RecordAustralian Rangelands users go into the 1980's in trepidation. Firstly they are the victims of a vicious circle that has been with us since "indexation" was brought in. The escalating…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- co-exist
- indexation
- trepidation
- Library Collection RecordExplorers records of inland Australia indicate that much of today's pastoral zone was subject to wind and water erosion before the lend was subjected to domestic stock. Australia's…Publication Date 2014
- arid land degradation
- Australia
- erosion
- pastoral regions
- Library Collection RecordSurface runoff was recorded from small plots situated in the mulga rangelands of Queensland. Even small falls of rain ( <15 mm) produced runoff equivalent to over 50% of the rain. Plant tussocks…Publication Date 2014
- Amelorating effect
- Australia
- plant cover
- Queensland
- rainfall
- runoff
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's Rangelands include the Arid Zone, occupying 70 percent of the continent, and native, or natural pastures in the higher rainfall districts. This paper is concerned with the latter…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Dumaresq River
- Gwydir River
- Macintyre River
- Namoi River
- New South Wales
- Northern Tablelands
- water yield
- Library Collection RecordResults are presented of a survey of costs, returns and profitability in the Eastern Mulga Land Resource Region of south -west Queensland. It was based on seven mixed sheep - cattle properties…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Mulga Survey
- South-West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordFifteen native and common exotic herbaceous species from four functional groups (C4 grass, C3 grass, chamaephyte and hemicryptophyte) occurring within remnant and revegetated grassland and grassy…Publication Date 2014
- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- ecological restoration
- grasslands
- grassy woodlands
- revegetation
- restoration ecology
- seeds
- Victoria
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe exclusion of regular fire and the introduction of livestock grazing have altered native grassland composition on Victoria's volcanic plains, commonly resulting in spear-grass and wallaby-…Publication Date 2014
- natural temperate grassland of the Victorian volcanic plains
- stable states
- transition
- fire ecology
- restoration ecology
- grazing
- grasslands
- indigenous encroaching species
- Victoria
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis study examines contact between twelve large Australian Pastoral Companies and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI). Most contact is with the veterinary services branch.…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Australian Pastoral Companies
- Queensland
- state department
- Library Collection RecordIt is readily understood that when natural grasslands and shrublands are grazed there will be some changes in the plant community. The more permanent changes, arising from the loss of some plant…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of certain land tenure requirements and the influence of death duties on pastoral business structures in far south west Queensland is outlined. Seventy -four percent of sheep…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- South West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordHistorically, livestock have been the main method of converting rangeland production into financial returns. It is possible that livestock will continue in this role, for the major portion of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- livestock
- Library Collection RecordControl of animal numbers is the most important management tool available for use on extensive pastoral lands. Other complementary tools include the control of animal distribution through the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- grazing capacity
- Library Collection RecordSheep diet at a plant species level for seven occasions during 1974 -76 is presented for a woodland community under four different managements. The wide variation in grazing preference with…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- semi-arid
- woodland
- Library Collection RecordRunoff and soil water have been measured on differently managed areas of shrub invaded semi -arid woodland near Coolabah, in north-western N.S.W. Measurements commenced in spring of 1975 and are…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- northwestern New South Wales