WA research identifies how to maximise pasture when season is short

May 21 2019 - 3:00pm
RESEARCHERS: Western dairy researchers Peter Hutton (left) and Jessica Andony (right) meet with dairy farmer Matt Brett (centre) on Matt's farm at the site of the 2018 pasture trials, Dardanup WA.
RESEARCHERS: Western dairy researchers Peter Hutton (left) and Jessica Andony (right) meet with dairy farmer Matt Brett (centre) on Matt's farm at the site of the 2018 pasture trials, Dardanup WA.

Pasture is the key component of the dairy feedbase in Australia and Western Australia is no exception. The growing and grazing season for pasture in WA is typically from May to November and pasture is conserved mainly as silage in the spring months.

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