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Year | Trial site |
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Biodiverse carbon credit pilot projectTo add income diversification to the other benefits that native vegetation can bring to a property such as improving biodiversity, providing shelter for stock and beneficial insects for crops, protecting eroded or degrading land, protection of watercourses and improving water quality. |
Primary Industries and Regions SA
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2018 | Kingscote SA |
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Demonstrating innovative inter-row pastures in fodder shrub systemsTo demonstrate inter-row pasture options for the low rainfall zone. |
Upper North Farming Systems
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2013 | Jamestown SA |
Research organisaton
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Enrich – Incorporating a perennial shrub feedbase into mixed farming systems on Eyre Peninsula
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SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre
FFI CRC GRDC |
2011 | Minnipa SA |
Research organisaton
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Enrich - Identifying forage shrub options for Eyre PeninsulaTo identify better perennial species than what is already available in low rainfall areas. |
SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre
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2010 | Piednippie SA |
Research organisaton
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Enrich; multi-purpose healthy grazing systems using perennial shrubs. Small plot field evaluation site
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West Midlands Group
GRDC |
2009 | Miling WA |
Research organisaton
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Establishing various salt tolerant species on salt land areas inaccessible by machineryTo re-establish plant diversity on salt affected soils on a large farm scale trial using “seeded” clay balls. |
North East Farming Futures
NLP |
2017 | Rothsay Road WA |
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Grain & Graze: whole farm feed supply - grazing days/season/pasture typeTo understand how a range of pasture types combine to form a whole farm feed supply. |
Liebe Group
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2006 | east Buntine WA |
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Implementing best practice management grazing systems for the low rainfall zoneTo implement the findings of previous work conducted on the establishment of native perennial grasses in the Upper North. |
Upper North Farming Systems
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2013 | Jamestown SA |
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Mixed Cover Crops for Sustainable FarmingTo support grower groups to identify and demonstrate the establishment and management of suitable multi species cover crops across a range of environments and assess the impacts of cover cropping on soil health, nutrient cycling, organic carbon, invertebrate populations and soil moisture. |
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
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2020 | MacGillivray SA |
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Pasture options in 2007To discuss options for pasture management. |
Birchip Cropping Group
Mallee CMA NLP |
2005 | Watchupga East VIC |
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Perennial pasture demonstrationTo evaluate new fodder shrubs on poor performing areas. |
Liebe Group
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2009 | Buntine WA |
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Perennial pasture demonstrationTo evaluate new fodder shrubs on poor performing areas. |
Liebe Group
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2010 | Buntine WA |
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Perennial pasture management systems for soil carbon stock in cereal zones, South Australia.Tol trial a range of practices to increase sequestration of soil carbon, including:
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Upper North Farming Systems
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2013 | Jamestown SA |
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Perennial pasturesPerennial pastures are being investigated for their potential fit in the Wimmera Mallee region. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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2006 | Berriwillock VIC |
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Perennial shrubs - production, grazing and recovery in the MalleeTo explore the use of perennial shrubs as a feed source for profitable and sustainable grazing systems in low-to-medium rainfall areas of hte Mallee. |
Birchip Cropping Group
CRC GRDC Mallee CMA |
2011 | Walpeup VIC |
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Shrub-based grazing systems for low-medium rainfall zones (Enrich Project)To identify alternative grazing systems that are both sustainable and profitable in low-medium rainfall zones where cropping is no longer viable due to high risks and changing climatic conditions. |
Eyre Peninsula Agricultural Research Foundation
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2009 | Elbow Hill SA |
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The use of fodder shrubs in the farming systemThis project is investigating where and how perennials, including fodder shrub species can fit into our farming systems and the benefits they can have on production andsustainability. |
Upper North Farming Systems
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2012 | Jamestown SA |
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