Catchment:
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Glenelg Hopkins
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Collaborating Producer:
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Woody & Craig Oliver
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Location:
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“WANDOBAH” 2027 Blackwood - Dunkeld Road, Dunkeld, Victoria 3294
5km South of Dunkeld, in Western Victoria on the Victorian Volcanic Plains
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Producer Group:
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Panyyabyr Landcare Group
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Site Co-ordinator:
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Lisa McIntyre
P: (03) 55 749 235
E: advancel@ansonic.com.au
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Production and Environmental Challenges
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Maintaining perennial pasture species.
Meeting protein demands of young stock in summer
The need to produce a diversity of pastures that will help maximise the amount of feed grown in a variable or changing climatic pattern.
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Innovation being tested:
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Summer active introduced perennial grass system compared to a native perennial pasture (microlaena and danthonia sp.) and a novel herb based pasture (plantain and chicory)
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Base pasture:
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Quantum II Max P Summer active Tall Fescue sown spring 2008 at 20kg/ha with Trikkala sub clover to be broadcast at 10kg/ha in autumn 2009
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Animal systems:
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Merino wethers
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Latest results
First data to be collected in April 2009.
A difficult spring at sowing with a dry finish has resulted in a patchy establishment.
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