Pastures & Cropping

“Too many paddocks being lost”: Fall armyworm impacting beef fodder crops

Graziers and dairy farmers are invited to join an online update about fall armyworm, which is affecting forage sorghum and corn as well as grain crops…Read More

Beef Central, 27/04/2024

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Hard-seeded pasture legumes expand as mixed-farming option

A rip-roaring drought and buoyant livestock prices have bolstered interest in hard-seeded legume pastures as a worthy inclusion in mixed-farming rotations in New South Wales…Read More

Liz Wells, 11/04/2019
Pacific Seeds, UQ and DAF project to boost sorghum heat tolerance

A $605,000 grant from the Australian Research Council will fund a project to look into identifying sorghum genes with improved heat tolerance, and incorporating them into new varieties…Read More

Beef Central, 10/09/2018
Two oat crops tell story of a century of breeding progress

Two forage oats varieties growing a few metres apart at the DAF Kingsthorpe Research Facility near Toowoomba are separated by exactly 100 years of breeding history…Read More

James Nason, 09/08/2018

Australia’s newest forage oat variety Warlock launched near Toowoomba

Livestock producers from central Queensland to central New South Wales can expect earlier grazing and higher feed yields with the launch of the new Warlock forage oat variety today…Read More

Beef Central, 08/08/2018
Scientist-farmer research backs spot-spraying to control African lovegrass

A research project involving scientists from the NSW Government and the QLD University of Technology, and 15 landholders from the Bega region has identified roller-wiping or spot spraying as a..Read More

Beef Central, 26/09/2017
New Oats variety launched in Queensland

The new variety, called Wizard, is the pinnacle of seven years of research by the Department’s scientists to develop a crop completely resistant to all known races of leaf rust…Read More

Beef Central, 31/08/2016

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