EverGraze-a project to achieve profit and environmental outcomes in the Australian grazing industries
Australian agriculture is faced with environmental issues including increasing land and river salinity and reduced biodiversity. Key to the addressing these are to develop livestock systems that achieve improved environmental outcomes and increased profit, in order to promote widespread adoption. EverGraze is a national research and extension project developing innovative livestock production systems based on perennial pastures which will deliver improved profit and environmental outcomes. Integrated bioeconomic and biophysical modeling (in consultation with farmers and catchment managers) was used to identify fanning systems which have the potential to deliver improved profit and environmental outcomes, as well as identifying constraints to achieving these outcomes. Whole farm systems and component research is now underway across several sites in the high rainfall zones (＞550 mm) of southern Australia to test the potential of new livestock systems and to investigate the specific benefits of parts of these systems (e.g., improving sheep reproductive performance through perennial pastures and shrubs). This paper presents modelling results and how they were used to design field experiments, and preliminary experimental results from one of these experiments.
livestock profit environment perennial pastures
M.A.Friend S.Robertson D.Masters A.Avery
EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University and NSW Department of Primary CSIRO Livestock Industries Private Bag 5,Wembley,WA 6913,Australia;Co-operative Research Centre for Primary Industries Research Victoria RMB 1145,Rutherglen,Vic 3685,Australia;Co-operative Research Ce
国际会议
The 7tb International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores(ISNH-7)(第七届国际草食动物营养研讨会)
北京
英文
570-575
2007-09-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）