Ag Excellence News and Updates

Brett Nietschke (BIGG Technical Facilitator) also gave an update on BIGG’s two long-term pasture projects:

Multi-species perennial pastures
Trials are being conducted at Marananga to determine the productivity of various perennial based multi-species treatments.
The importance of getting species off to a strong start and particularly through their first summer has been highlighted. This is because perennial species establish slowly (compared to annuals), therefore issues such as moisture stress, competition from weeds and overgrazing can significantly reduce plant density and diversity of the mix.
Pasture recovery with containment feeding
Trials are being conducted at Flaxman Valley and Keyneton to quantify the benefits of paddocks which have high feed on offer (FOO) and ground cover going into the break of the season, compared to paddocks with low FOO and groundcover.
To date, the high FOO paddocks have produced better outcomes well into the growing season, including having higher grazing value, groundcover and more favourable pastures species, compared to the low FOO paddocks.
The BIGG trial projects have been funded through the Federal Government’s Future Drought Fund’s SA Discovery Farms program.

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