Catchment:

Namoi

Collaborating Producer:

Matt Carter

Location:

‘Myall Springs’, Kelvin (40km north of Gunnedah) NSW

Producer Group:

Kelvin Producer Group

Site Co-ordinator:

Simon Turpin
Catchment Officer, Namoi CMA
P: (02) 67 429  212
E: simon.turpin@cma.nsw.gov.au

Production and Environmental Challenges

Native pasture quality and quantity, soil health (nutrition and structure), groundcover, matching the stock enterprise to the pastures capabilities.

Innovation being tested:

Treatment paddock: Will the low input time control grazing management system increase pasture quality and quantity in native pastures?
Subdivision – The treatment 1 paddock (originally 400ha) will be subdivided into 20/ha paddocks.
Grazing management – The treatment area 1 will be grazed at around 860 dse/ha/day for 8.5 days (depending on pasture condition) with a spell of about 120–150 days before next grazing. 

Control paddock: The 175 ha control paddock will be grazed at about 650 dse/ha/day for 60 days (depending on pasture condition) with a spell of 60–90 days before next grazing.

Base pasture:

Native perennial pasture: Currently a mixture of native grasses and naturalised legume species including: Slender Bamboo (Stipa Verticulata) Wire grass (Aristida), Queensland bluegrass, Red grass, Common Windmill, Slender Rats Tail, Cotton Panic, Native Lovegrass, Hairy Panic, Wallaby Grass, Silky Browntop and others.

Animal systems:

Beef cattle

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