Evergraze
The Evergraze program will assist high rainfall producers to increase the profitability of grazing systems whilst improving the natural resource base of the farm.
Evergraze is seeking new farming systems for the high rainfall zone (>550mm) based on deep rooted perennial pastures that significantly increase wool and livestock producers’ profits, while stabilising or enhancing natural resource management (NRM) outcomes.
On most farms there are a range of land classes that require different management practices in order to ensure economic and environmental sustainability. On most farms, only a proportion of land is suited to high input, improved pasture systems while other land is suited to lower inputs and native pastures.
Native pastures cover a vast area of the high rainfall zone and make a major contribution to biodiversity but sometimes lack quality for high producing animals and are often threatened by weed invasion and poor grazing practices. So farming systems based on improved and / or native pastures will provide the greatest opportunities to address profit and natural resource outcomes.
Evergraze will:
- provide proof that high input livestock production systems in the high rainfall zone can be 50% more profitable, while at the same time reducing groundwater recharge by 50%
- provide proof that native pastures, either alone, or combined with improved pastures can deliver a 50% increase in profit and a significant improvement in key, regionally important, NRM indicators
- ensure adoption of EverGraze principles and recommended practices on 3,000 properties across the high rainfall zone
Evergraze is a partnership between Australian Wool Innovation, Meat and Livestock Australia, CRC for Plant based Management of Dryland Salinity (CRC Salinity) and regional catchment agencies.
Webite:www.evergraze.com.au
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Ms Renelle Jeffrey
Project Officer - Sustainable Production Systems
Tel: +61 2 8295 3100
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