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Grazing Standing Crops - Enterprise versatility, resilience, summer groundcover and soil health

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By MFMG Admin

 

Project code: 4-F27VMRC

Project manager: Amanda Pearce

Project duration: May 2021 to October 2023

About the project

A project to highlight the versatility and quantify the cost benefit of using a standing ripened crop as a fodder option to provide sheep with early feed in winter, turn lambs off faster in summer, and improve lamb growth rates in early autumn. Additionally, the project highlights how utilising standing crops over the summer/autumn period in southern Australia provides groundcover outside of the growing season, preventing wind and water erosion, and protecting topsoil organic matter and soil fertility.


Through demonstrations, field walks, group discussions, newsletter articles, podcasts, videos and a cost benefit analysis, the role of standing crops in resilient, versatile enterprises will be shared with land managers.