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Tree Windbreaks In The Wheatbelt, Robert Sudmeyer, David Bicknell, Neil Coles
Tree Windbreaks In The Wheatbelt, Robert Sudmeyer, David Bicknell, Neil Coles
Bulletins 4000 -
Windbreaks comprising trees, or tree and shrub combinations, can offer many benefits on wheatbelt farms, particularly for protection of soil, stock, crops and pastures from damaging winds and erosion. Additional benefits include reduced evaporation from farm dams, reduced groundwater recharge, their use as nature conservation corridors and habitats, increased biodiversity including predators of crop and pasture pests, fire control, tree products and improved lifestyle and aesthetics.
In other areas and farming systems such as intensive horticulture, man-made windbreaks may be used, but their higher cost makes them unsuited for broadscale agriculture. Man-made windbreaks can be effective in reducing evaporative losses …
Returns To R&D Investment Of Dafwa: Benefit Cost Analysis, 2005-2006, Nazrul Islam
Returns To R&D Investment Of Dafwa: Benefit Cost Analysis, 2005-2006, Nazrul Islam
Bulletins 4000 -
The primary outcome or objective of the projects that are assessed, is to increase the market competitiveness and profitability of agri-industry.
Agmaps Land Manager Cd-Rom For The Lake Warden Catchment, Department Of Agriculture And Food
Agmaps Land Manager Cd-Rom For The Lake Warden Catchment, Department Of Agriculture And Food
Agmaps
This CD-ROM contains land resource maps and land management information for the Lake Warden catchment. It was prepared by Environmental Knowledge Systems Australia (EKSA) on behalf of the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia. Funding has been provided by the Australian and State Governments investment through the Natural Heritage Trust delivered by South Coast NRM in the South Coast region.
Also included on the CD is a lot of technical information which may now be out of date.
Feed On Offer Photo Gallery : For Annual Pastures During The Green Period, Mandy (Catherine Amanda) Curnow, Lifetimewool (Australia)
Feed On Offer Photo Gallery : For Annual Pastures During The Green Period, Mandy (Catherine Amanda) Curnow, Lifetimewool (Australia)
Books & book chapters
Food on Offer, or FOO, is the amount of pasture available for sheep to eat. It is measured as dry matter per hectare, and then used to budget feed available and stocking rates for a given period.
FOO includes all green material above the ground and it is reported in kilograms of dry matter per hectare (kg DM/ha).
Landscapes And Soils Of The Katanning District, D N. Sawkins, Department Of Agriculture And Food
Landscapes And Soils Of The Katanning District, D N. Sawkins, Department Of Agriculture And Food
Bulletins 4000 -
The publication aims to provide readers with the principles underlying the formation of local landscapes and soils, and the ability to identify landscapes and their associated soils.