UNE partner with Agrimix and CSIRO for important new Drought Resilience project for Northern Australia

  • March 19, 2022

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Project:

Overcoming the knowledge gaps.

Who:

UNE in collaboration with Agrimix, JCU and CSIRO.

What:

The University of New England successfully secured a Drought Resilience Innovation Grant from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund. This project focuses on increasing grazing system resilience during drought conditions.

Why:

  • The project aims to equip producers with the skills and confidence to develop higher quality pasture and forage conservation that increases landscape and grazing system resilience during drought conditions. 
  • To understand how deep-rooted legumes and irrigated forage species can help improve the drought resilience of livestock enterprises in northern Australia. 

How the project will achieve this:

Using a co-learning approach to increase the adoption of deep-rooted legumes and conserved forage as key drought-resilient strategies for Northern Australian grazing systems.  

The project will:

  • Include 12 properties from 330 S to 150 S (NSW, QLD, NT) with a total area of 1.7 million hectares.
  • Plant 5000 hectares of deep-rooted legumes to answer key questions on adoption constraints related to planting, establishment, fertility, grazing management and the production of conserved forage.
  • Most of the 12 properties already have some Desmanthus or Stylosanthes established. Learnings from these areas will be critical to adoption and co-learning for future plantings.
  • Each property will have a network of regional producers, consultants and scientists (JCU, UNE and CSIRO) to design comparisons, organise farm walks and deliver learning courses via Edge and Prograze for all regional producers.

ABOVE: UNE awarded $7.4m in Drought Resilience Innovation Grants (Photo: JohnCarnemolla)

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