Livestock and Winter Fodder
Stock Management Areas
Confinement feeding in Stock Management Areas (SMA) is a proactive management strategy that can be incorporated into on-farm drought management programs. When feed availability and ground cover reduces livestock are confined to a smaller area of the property which helps maintain livestock production, increases productivity and importantly maintains ground cover across other parts of the property. Traditionally during drought producers have let livestock roam large areas and fed them in existing large paddocks.
A Guide to Confinement
Feeding Sheep and Cattle in
New South Wales
Grazing Crops Under Irrigation
Producing Irrigated Cereal Grain and Fodder in Northern Victoria
This cereal fodder guide primarily is intended to help farmers decide what cereals to grow for fodder when irrigation water is limited and to help identify the risks that may threaten the viability of the forage crop. This guide will also help farmers to determine the cost effectiveness of home-grown forages and the best end use for the forage grown.
Optimise Returns from Grazing Irrigated Crops
In 2021, members of the GRDC Riverine Plains Irrigation Discussion Group tested the practical and financial implications of grazing irrigated wheat and canola.
Grazing Canola Variety Demonstration
Growers in this environment have been hesitant to graze canola due to the long season traditional grazing varieties and the suspected heat stress in late spring/ early summer. The hope was that a series 5 spring variety would mature earlier and require one less irrigation in spring. The growers were accepting that a yield decrease would occur however it would save them an irrigation.