can sustainable grazing management be economic in a variable environment?
Results from the trial will be presented at the Queensland Landcare Conference in Barcaldine on 5 August. The DPI’s Sustainable Grazing Systems team in Charters Towers is hoping to change the perception that sustainable grazing practices are uneconomic. The trials on ‘Wambiana Station’ aim to assess the ability of different grazing strategies to cope with rainfall variablity, to develop new, practical grazing strategies and to demonstrate the benefits of sustainable management. Team leader Peter O’Reagain said rainfall variability was a major challenge to sustainable grazing management. ‘While strategies to manage for rainfall variability exist, they are not widely adopted due, in part, to a perception that they unviable,’ he said Dr. O’Reagain will present data showing these perceptions are incorrect and that there are economic and ecological advantages to adopting sustainable grazing strategies. To find out more about the grazing trial and other exciting workshops at the Landcare con
