Catchment:
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Glenelg Hopkins
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Collaborating Producer:
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Shaun and Lisa McIntyre
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Location:
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“Tooronga” 1143 McIntyres Crossing Road, Karabeal,
(approx. 15 km north west of Dunkeld, 15km southeast of Cavendish)
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Producer Group:
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Panyyabyr Landcare Group |
Site Co-ordinator:
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Shaun McIntyre
P: (03) 55 749 235
E: advancel@ansonic.com.au
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Production and Environmental Challenges
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Changing and diminishing rainfall patterns.
Provide alternative, perennial summer feed.
Lower water table, located on saline (recharge) site.
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Innovation being tested:
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Comparing Sardi 7 lucerne to perennial grass and annual legume mix
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Base pasture:
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Sardi 7 lucerne (sown 10kg/ha) and porto cocksfoot (sown 0.25kg/ha)
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Animal systems:
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Merino x White Suffolk lambs, Merino weaners, Merinos all ages
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Latest Results:
First data to be collected in April 2009.
Sown October 2008, with minimal follow up rain
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