FEED365 spring field day to reveal secrets of year round feed supply in Australia

Published Sep 9, 2024

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The FEED365 project, a collaboration between the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), Meat & Livestock Australia's (MLA) SheepLinks program, and the Grower Group Alliance, aims to provide sheep producers with a solution for near year-round feed supply without the need for supplementary feeding. The project, located at DPIRD's Katanning Research Station, has demonstrated the potential of forage crops and pastures to provide green feed for most of the year, even in dry seasons. The field day on September 17 will provide producers with insights into the various forage options and management strategies used, aiming to reduce feed costs, enhance business resilience and sustainability, and improve productivity and profitability.

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Sheep producers will be able to see firsthand how forage crops and pastures can provide almost a year-round feed supply without the need for supplementary feeding at a field day at Katanning on Tuesday, September 17. The day features a site tour of the FEED365 project, led by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) with co-investment from Meat & Livestock Australia's (MLA) SheepLinks program and support from the Grower Group Alliance. Visitors to DPIRD's Katanning Research Station will be able to inspect a large range of species of perennial pastures, native grasses, annual legumes and herbs, annual grasses, cereals and shrubs. Various combinations of the crops were established on 48 grazing plots in 2021 to help producers adopt proven forage options to increase the edible feed on offer at critical livestock production periods. DPIRD senior principal research scientist Daniel Real said the project had demonstrated it was possible to create year-round ...

Source: Farmweekly