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

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.

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2023_Grazing standing crops with Josie Jackson and Amanda Pearce Video

2023_Grazing standing crops with Josie Jackson and Amanda Pearce - The Prosperous Farmer Podcast

2023_Grazing Standing Crops Amanda Pearce presentation

2023_Managing Standing Crops for Production, Livestock, Nutrition and Soil Cover Case Study

2020_Grazing Standing Crops Case Study Appendix 1 MFMG Results Day - Sherwood Site_Handout
2020_Grazing Standing Crops Case Study Appendix 2 MFMG Results Day - Willalooka Site_Handout
2020_Grazing Standing Crops Case Study Appendix 3 Small Plots Demonstration_Results
2020_Grazing Standing Crops_Case Study