Pastures

Three generations of the Heitman family are involved in the running of Arena, located 20 km south of Mingenew. Alan and Joy Heitman and their son Donald and his wife Julie and their children, Jared and Ashley all work together on ... more details

The Department of Agriculture and Food has proposed that improving pasture management will deliver the greatest gains on mixed farms in the Avon Region. In advancing this idea, the Grain & Graze Program intends to focus on... more details

Bob and Anne Wilson farm just 25 km from the coast in a 650 mm rainfall zone, but they are effectively dealing with drought for six months of the year. They lease a 2000 ha property, ?Tagasaste Farm?, located near Lancelin, 150... more details

Seven years ago, Craig and Donelle Forsyth decided that they would no longer crop their 3600 ha Irwin property, Avoca. The property is gravel sands, deep poor sands and sand over clay and the decision to concentrate on livestock... more details

The aim of this study is to determine the impact of grazing intensity/number of paddocks on the persistence and production of mixed perennial grass pastures. more details

Don Nixon runs a grain, cattle and sheep farming business with his wife Ann, son Peter and daughter-in-law, Sally. The Nixons have farmed their 2266 ha home property ?Dalmeny Downs? at New Norcia since 1969. They purchased... more details

With careful attention to detail, Graham and Helen Lethlean are hoping to take productivity to the next level across all aspects of their mixing farming enterprise. The couple have farmed Ooranya, 10 km south of Badgingarra ,... more details

The McMaster Research Station is located approximately 30 kilometres north of Warialda, New South Wales. Total area of the property is approximately 1013 hectares. The property is a true mixed farming system, incorporating forage ... more details

LeyGrain workshops have been held at East Moonie, Moonie, Weengallon, Goondoola, Nindigully, Talwood, Toobeah and Millmerran during the life of Grain & Graze. Most have been run in conjunction with Landcare project officers... more details

Traditional mixed farming systems consist of crop­pasture rotations that are often inflexible due to a set
sequence of crops and the annual need to establish pastures, which risk failure. Increasingly there has been a... more details

Integration of livestock and cropping enterprises has been limited in southeast and central Queensland.
A decline in soil fertility, lower crop yields and higher returns from beef production have resulted in former... more details

Many perennial grass species have been introduced to provide quality fodder under a range of climatic conditions. They are valued because of their productivity under grazing, and the high nutritional value of the herbage they... more details

Flooding on their pastoral property, Mandora Station in 1999 prompted Joe and Jane de Pledge to go in search of a farm in the Mid West to complement their Broome station.

?Huge areas on Mandora were inundated and... more details

Keith and Rosemary Carter farm with their son, Boyd 30 km east of Wubin. There are few farms east of the Carters before the land gives way to station country. ?Glenfyne? is 6000 arable hectares of red loamy sand to sandplain... more details

The Border Rivers region of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales is characterised by a highly variable summer-dominant rainfall pattern and predominantly (but not exclusively) heavy-textured soils. Pan evaporation is... more details

The Chase family settled on 1700 ha of land in the Trangie area in 1922. With additional land purchases 'Waitara' now totals 5096 ha. Geoff and Diana run the property with their son, Stephen who joined the partnership... more details

With the increasing cost of nitrogen fertiliser and the continuing run-down of soil organic matter, pasture legumes offer an attractive alternative in their crop rotations. This is a brief summary of 16 different species of... more details

Continuous cropping has provided medium-term profitability but has reduced the productive capacity of soils. It has depleted soil nitrogen and organic matter, damaged soil structure and the biological health of soils,... more details

The aim of this study is to investigate the production and quality of warm season perennial species in the north eastern wheatbelt. more details

Rob and Ros Gillam and their children Sally O'Brien and Andrew Gillam run a mixed farming enterprise approximately 20 km east of Dongara and 360 km north of Perth. The operation spans three farms - Irwin House, Pinchers and... more details

Rob and Sally McTaggart and sons, Jamie and Ben run a mixed cropping and cattle enterprise located 5 km north east of Mingenew. Their property, ?Bolinda? covers approximately 5000ha and annual rainfall in the district is usually... more details

Ross and Lyn Fitzsimons run a mixed farming operation covering 4800 arable hectares over two locations. The 3600 ha home farm is 15 km east of Buntine, with a further 1200ha property west of Buntine. ?Wicklow Farm? is... more details

Adrian, Fiona and Jim Brennan run a mixed cropping and livestock enterprise in the Victoria Plains district of WA. They own two properties; 900 ha just north of Calingiri and a further 2200 ha, ?Harrogate?, 14 km to the east. ... more details

The Lefroy family has a long, proud history on their 5700 ha property, Cranmore Park, 32 km east of Moora. Parents, Bruce and Anna and their sons Kristin and Andrew and Kristin?s wife, Tracy all work together to run this farming... more details

Grain & Graze in the Northern Agricultural Region (NAR) is investigating perennials and grazing cereals in a mixed farming system. The project involves four farmer groups: Mingenew-Irwin, Liebe, Victoria Plains and the... more details