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Publication Date
2005
Location
Dublin Ireland
Description
Since the 1930s, crop/pasture rotation systems have been used in the wheat-sheep belt of temperate southern Australia to maintain the productivity and environmental sustainability of farming systems (Puckridge & French, 1983). Yet, in the northern grain belt of Australia, there is limited adoption of ley pastures, owing to inherently fertile and well-structured vertisol soils. However, soil fertility decline now costs the grain industry about $450 m per year. Legume-based leys are an option for improving soil OM and N and providing other benefits to cropping and livestock production systems (Lloyd et al., 1991). Despite strong one-on-one extension processes since the 1950s, the adoption of crop/pasture rotation systems is less than one-tenth of that in southern Australia.
Citation
Lloyd, D. L.; Johnson, B.; and O'Brien, S. M., "LeyGrain: A Participatory Action-Learning Model for Ley Pastures in Cropping Systems" (2005). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 116.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/20/themeC/116)
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LeyGrain: A Participatory Action-Learning Model for Ley Pastures in Cropping Systems
Dublin Ireland
Since the 1930s, crop/pasture rotation systems have been used in the wheat-sheep belt of temperate southern Australia to maintain the productivity and environmental sustainability of farming systems (Puckridge & French, 1983). Yet, in the northern grain belt of Australia, there is limited adoption of ley pastures, owing to inherently fertile and well-structured vertisol soils. However, soil fertility decline now costs the grain industry about $450 m per year. Legume-based leys are an option for improving soil OM and N and providing other benefits to cropping and livestock production systems (Lloyd et al., 1991). Despite strong one-on-one extension processes since the 1950s, the adoption of crop/pasture rotation systems is less than one-tenth of that in southern Australia.
