Plenary and Invited Papers Section 1: Efficient Production from Grassland
Description
- Many factors contribute to changes in the crop-livestock systems, but no logical end-point in the evolution process exists.
- While benefits of integrated crop-livestock systems over specialised crop and livestock systems are well documented, there has been a move to specialised crop and livestock production.
- Sustainability issues (manure nutrient concentration, soil quality maintenance, salinity, herbicide resistance, economic instability) have created a renewed interest in integrated crop-livestock systems.
- Farmer adaptability is as an important link in the evolution between ‘states of integration’.
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Evolution of Integrated Crop-Livestock Production Systems
- Many factors contribute to changes in the crop-livestock systems, but no logical end-point in the evolution process exists.
- While benefits of integrated crop-livestock systems over specialised crop and livestock systems are well documented, there has been a move to specialised crop and livestock production.
- Sustainability issues (manure nutrient concentration, soil quality maintenance, salinity, herbicide resistance, economic instability) have created a renewed interest in integrated crop-livestock systems.
- Farmer adaptability is as an important link in the evolution between ‘states of integration’.
