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Summer sowing legumes to renovate pastures
Herbage availability for arrowleaf clover, established either by summer sowing of unprocessed seed (left of photo) or via conventional sowing (late May) of scarified seed (right of photo) in late winter at Condobolin, NSW in 2020. PHOTO: Dr Belinda Hackney
A collaborative project is looking at increasing the feed supply on mixed farms with acidic and alkaline soils in the medium-low rainfall zones through summer sowing legumes and the development of new legume species.
The Dryland Legume Pasture Project (DLPS) funded by AWI in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture Water and Environment, GRDC and MLA – in WA, NSW, SA and Victoria – is investigating the capacity of hardseeded annual legumes to improve feed supply and reduce risk in mixed farming systems. Researchers from Murdoch University, NSW DPI, DPIRD, SARDI, CSIRO, Charles Sturt University and Frontier Farming Systems are leading this national research effort.