Land, Water & Wool supplement index

The national Land, Water & Wool program, the wool industry’s most significant investment in natural resource management research and development, has revealed profitable wool production and improved environmental management can be highly compatible.

Five years of research findings and outcomes from Land, Water & Wool have been consolidated into the Managing for Sustainable Profit report for the benefit of woolgrowers and their advisers. The report outlines the key findings and implications from the program as well as providing clear links to relevant products and more information.

This Beyond the Bale supplement looks at what Land, Water & Wool discovered, and how its research findings can help you manage your wool business for sustainable profit.

In this issue

• Sustainable Management of Australian Landscapes
  Investment through Land, Water & Wool has put the Australian wool industry at the forefront of world knowledge on sustainable grazing-land management.
  Also: Shifting Baselines: how wool can be the environmental leader
  
  
• Wool production and our natural environment
  Probably the biggest message to emerge from Land, Water & Wool is that improved land and water resource management can result in a healthier environment and more money for woolgrowers.
  Also: Genesis of Land, Water & Wool
  
  
• Woolgrowers as Environmental Stewards
  Wool producers manage about 12% of the continent and play a big part in keeping it healthy for the benefit of the community.
  Also: Environmental 'health check' for woolgrowers
  
  
• Sustainable profit: On-the-money solutions
  Good natural resource management can lead directly to greater financial returns - a unique win-win situation for woolgrowers.
  
• Pastures a Key to solving salinity
  Land, Water & Wool has found that moderately saline land is the best place for woolgrowers to make a start on saltland management.
  Also: Producer networks unite against salt
  
  
• Biodiversity boosts the bottom line
  Benefits from good biodiversity on farms include higher lambing percentages and stocking rates, but the psychological benefits should not be overlooked.
  Also: Collars get tongues wagging about trees and Native species breed success
  
  
• Rangelands Productivity
  Woolgrowers are utilising satellite imagery and remote-sensing technology to assess pasture availability in the rangelands
  Also: 'Pasture classing pays off'
  
  
• Less risk, more confidence in managing climate
  Australian woolgrowers are among the world leaders in the use of seasonal risk assessments (SRAs) to reduce the effect of climate variability on their businesses.
  Also: Power to predict pasture is positive and Drafting gate sorts out climate risk

• Riparian repair pays dividends
  Practical guidelines have been developed to help woolgrowers manage specific waterway issues on their properties.
  Also: 'Five Ps' provide all pieces of puzzle and Loaded gullies swallow topsoil
  
  
• Using the future to shape the present
  Panels of experts have come up with four scenarios of what the wool industry may look like in 25 years’ time.
  Also: What in the world...? The future of woolgrowing
  
  
• Next steps for the wool industry
  AWI is committed to investing in projects that develop the profitability of woolgrowing and, at the same time, improve the natural resource base.
  
  
• Land, Water & Wool - How to get involved
  Land, Water & Wool has developed more than 60 research-based practical information products, including fact sheets, case studies, technical manuals, guidelines and websites.

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