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Title: On-station production of native speargrass hay in Western Australia / G.L. Krebs, R.R. Rouda, S.P. Van Wyngaarden. [Variant title:On-station production of native speargrass hay in Western Australia : a producer initiated research project.]
Author: Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture. ; Gascoyne-Murchison Strategy. ; Krebs, G. L. (Curtin University of Technology, Muresk Institute of Agriculture, Northam) ; Curtin University of Technology. ; Nullarbor-Eyre Highway Land Conservation District Committee (W.A.) ; Natural Heritage Trust (Australia) ; Rouda, R. (Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Kalgoorlie) ; Centre for the Management of Arid Environments. ; Van Wyngaarden, S. P. (Curtin University of Technology, Centre for the Management of Arid Environments, Kalgoorlie)
Series: Bulletin, ; Bulletin (Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture), ;, 4598.
Description: 36 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Subject: Austrostipa scabra. ; Costs. ; Sheep feeding. ; Trials. ; Haymaking. ; Austrostipa. ; Western Australia. ; Nullarbor region (W.A.) ; Nutritive value. ; Supplementary feeding. ; Harvesting. ; Fodder crops. ; Native pastures. ; Cattle feeding.
Notes: "A research partnership between producers of the Nullarbor-Eyre Highway Land Conservation District Committee and the Centre for the Management of Arid Environments" "October 2003" -- on cover. "On-station production of native speargrass hay in Western Australia : a producer initiated research project" -- cover title. "The Centre for the Management of Arid Environments is an unincorporated joint venture between the Department of Agriculture and Curtin Uiversity of Technology" -- inside cover. "Natural Heritage Trust" -- inside cover. "Gascoyne Murchison Strategy" -- inside cover.
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ISBN/ISSN: 0975130501; 1448-0352.
Type: Journal
Abstract: (En)
This report documents the practical and economic feasibility of on station harvesting and production of speargrass hay and haylage and its subsequent feeding to cattle and sheep in the extensive regions of south eastern Western Australia. Covers harvesting and making the hay, machinery used, economics of speargrass fodder conservation, costs of on station production, commercial viability, feed value of speargrass fodder in trials and feed supplements.
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