Grazing

Don’t let your hungry livestock eat away your precious soil cover pasture. There is potential to improve the profitability of livestock enterprises through improved grazing management while maintaining and enhancing the soil resource that these enterprises rely upon.

Find tips from local farmers who’ve trialled paddock rotations and subtly changed watering points to great effect. We have also compiled a range of resources about grazing.

Electric fencing

Using electric fencing can be a useful management tool for grazing. To help landholders with management of erosion-prone areas, we have four RAPPA electric fencing units available for loan from our Cleve, Wudinna and Port Lincoln offices. These temporary electric fencing systems are equipped with all the basic items to be used with the assistance of a quadbike or ATV, aiming to easily fence stock off from fragile soil areas in a paddock to increase soil cover.

Find out more in our flyer.

This SARDI fact sheet may also be useful - temporary electric fencing tips.

Grazing

Resources

Case studies

This Improving Feed Utilisation booklet contains a number of successful case studies about improving feed utilisation (including some of those listed above). They have demonstrated that gains can be made by making better use of paddock feed. Sub-dividing paddocks using flexible fencing systems enables more even grazing across all paddocks and within paddocks and helps prevent the “baring out” of areas favoured by livestock. The demonstration sites detailed in the booklet have shown that there are many ways to improve feed utilisation while protecting soil.

Other resources