On-Farm Options – Grazing management
This page provides a collection of resources to help with grazing management decisions.
The Nuts and Bolts of Grazing Management
The first step in developing a grazing strategy for your farm is to understand the basic principles for optimising pasture production, utilisation and composition; and livestock performance. The EverGraze Exchange – The Nuts and Bolts of Grazing Management provides these basic principles together with a process for implementation.
Dividing up the farm for grazing management
- EverGraze Action (Online) – Farm mapping and dividing up the farm for grazing management
- Orange EverGraze research message – Landscape variability can be identified, mapped and managed
- EverGraze Exchange – Grazing management systems explained
Planning and implementing grazing strategies
- Planning and implementing grazing strategies
- Measuring and calculating pasture growth
- Simple paddock budgets
- Using Winter feed budgets to plan ahead
- Understanding your stocking rate and feed supply/demand
Grazing management research – comparing different systems
- Orange EverGraze Proof Site – a comparison of one-paddock, four-paddock and twenty-paddock systems on fertilised native pastures.
- Chiltern and Holbrook Proof Sites – comparing grazing strategies and fertiliser input rates on native pastures for prime lamb production
- Broadford Grazing Experiment (Grazing management of phalaris) – a comparison of set stocking, simple rotation and intensive rotation using wethers.
- Grazing management – sorting fact from fiction (a review of grazing system experiments in southern Australia, Geoff Saul)
Management of improved pasture species
Phalaris
- EverGraze Action – Grazing phalaris for production and persistence
- Broadford Grazing Experiment (Grazing management of phalaris)
Perennial ryegrass
Tall fescue
- EverGraze Action – Growing and using summer active tall fescue
- EverGraze Action – Growing and using winter active tall fescue in southern Australia
- Hamilton EverGraze research message – Summer active tall fescue provides autumn feed in poorly drained soils.
- Tall fescue establishment and management in south west Victoria
Cocksfoot
Kikuyu
- EverGraze Action – Growing kikuyu for summer feed and soil cover
- EverGraze Action – Growing and using Kikuyu in WA
Lucerne
Chicory
- EverGraze Action – Growing and using Chicory in WA
- EverGraze Action – Growing and using Chicory on the East Coast
- Feed on Offer (FOO) guide for lucerne and chicory
Plantain
Identification and management of native pastures
Identifying native pastures
- Poster – Identifying native perennial grasses
- Native pastures of the Eastern Namoi
- Native pastures for sustainable agriculture – NE Victoria
- Native pastures of the Bundarra district
Managing native pastures
- EverGraze Action – Managing native pastures in Victoria
- Estimating feed availability of native perennial pastures
- Orange EverGraze research message – Landscape variability can be identified, mapped and managed
- Orange EverGraze research message – Composition of pastures with a high native perennial component is stable under managed grazing
- Orange EverGraze research message – The effect of grazing intensity on production and profit from native pastures
- Chiltern EverGraze research message – Composition and production from native pastures in response to fertiliser and rotational grazing
- Chiltern EverGraze research message – Lamb production from native pastures at Chiltern EverGraze Proof Site
- Chiltern EverGraze research message – Microlaena ecology and management
- Directions paper – a review of native pastures research in Southern Australia
- Sustainable Grazing for Steep Hills (Ararat, Southwest Victoria
On-Farm Conservation
- EverGraze Action – Assessing conservation value of native vegetation on farm in Northern NSW (tool land-holders)
- EverGraze Booklet – Assessing conservation value of native vegetation on farm in Northern NSW: A guide for assessing the conservation value of box gum grassy woodlands on the Northwest Slopes of NSW
Further information can be found in the Making More from Sheep and More Beef from Pastures modules.
