We received an email from Dr Rachelle Meyer from The University of Melbourne regarding some research she and her team are undertaking. The ‘Trees on Farm: Maximising Co-benefits’ project is funded by MLA and DJPR. They are developing a database of benefits and challenges of trees on farms, estimating their value to farm operations, and […]
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Autumn Seasonal Update Agrista Presentation
As promised the presentation John Francis from Agrista made at the recent Seasonal Update is available here Agrista TFS 3 Mar 21 Also available from the link below is the Laggan Grazing Demonstration Results from 2015 through to 2020 that John referenced in his presentation at the Seasonal Update. These trial results were compiled by […]
Rabobank Research
We were fortunate enough to secure the latest Rabobank Agribusiness Outlook for 2021 from our sponsors at Rabobank. This outlook gives a brief overview of where we were at the start of 2021 and what we can expect going forward. It goes on to give a summary of what individual commodities can expect throughout 2021 […]
NSW DPI Weeds Survey
The NSW Department of Primary Industries is currently looking at a research project which aims to develop an autonomous robot capable of finding and then selectively spraying, target weeds in a pasture. They have asked that we distribute a survey to our members to complete that will help them identify the most problematic pasture weeds […]
Phosphorus Efficient Pastures Project
The Phosphorus Efficient Pastures project TFS was involved with, commenced in late 2016 and was finalised in 2020 with the final reports made available in the last quarter of 2020. This project was part of a network of farmer participatory studies in temperate Australia aimed at examining the productivity, persistence and potential use of Serradella […]
Healthy Soils Workshop 3 Soil Interpretation
Towards the end of last year we held the third Healthy Soils workshop in the series of workshops we are running in conjunction with Graminus Consulting. Jim and Nathan from Graminus combined with Dr Jason Condon from Charles Sturt University to present an entertaining and informative half day on soil interpretation. It was a very […]
Bloat Survey
We received an email advising that CSU are currently running a survey to assess the impact of bloat in southern Australian beef production systems. They want to understand what producers think about bloat even if they haven’t ever had cattle affected by it. The survey takes approximately 10-15 min to complete. The link to the survey […]
Post Drought Stocking Decisions
In September 2018 Holmes Sackett, an agricultural consultancy business prepared an update for TFS members on restocking options post drought. The session looked at what happened to livestock prices after previous droughts, the pros and cons of restocking via breeding or buying in, options around when to buy – go early or wait for feed, […]
Alternative Fertilisers Field Research Project
Different fertiliser products are commonly promoted for use on pastures in order to improve pasture productivity and support a more ‘healthy’ soil microbial environment. However, minimal field research has been conducted to validate such claims. A 6-year study (2009–14) was conducted on phosphorus (P)-deficient soils at three sites near Yass, New South Wales, to investigate the effect of topdressing perennial […]
Potential for Phosphorus Efficient Legumes Research Report
In 2014 TFS entered into a research agreement with Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) to investigate the potential for phosphorus efficient legumes as an alternative to sub clover in the NSW Southern Tablelands. Two sites were created to identify which of the novel legumes with lower critical phosphorus requirements established, persisted and produced on pastures […]