From the Ground Up
From the Ground Up built on the success of the SA Arid Lands Landscape Board's Building Pastoral Sustainability Project and supported regenerative grazing practices in South Australia’s rangelands to build drought resilience.
The project was a welcome addition to the region’s land management programs, with growing interest from industry leaders for information on soil health and regenerative grazing practices in the rangelands.
Maintaining soil health and ground cover during dry periods is integral to maintaining profitable and resilient businesses. Regenerative grazing looks to manage livestock movements and behaviour to allow pasture to be rested during a growing season.
Rest-based grazing practices are well documented and monitored in higher rainfall regions, but not well known in the rangelands. This project looks to assess and quantify the benefits of rest-based grazing to soil and vegetation health and livestock productivity, under different management practices on working pastoral properties.
From the Ground Up established demonstration sites, hosted field days and peer-to-peer learning and provided on-ground training.
Southern Rangelands Grazing Land Management course - Grazing Fundamentals EDGE
The SA Arid Lands Landscape Board has collaborated with Meat and Livestock Australia to develop a Southern Rangeland Grazing Land Management course that is tailor made for the SA Arid Lands pastoral context.
It was a regionally-delivered, one day training workshop open to all SA Arid Lands residents with an interest in grazing land management and was designed for property managers and workers, advisors and students.
The workshops covered topics that included soils, land and vegetation types, climate, rangelands ecology and processes, dietary requirements of livestock production and grazing management with a focus on land condition assessment, forage budgeting, grazing systems and total grazing pressure.
It was offered at 11 different locations in 2023 and delivered by Dionne Walsh (Range IQ), Deb Scammell (Talking Livestock) and Tanisha Shields (Agrista)
From the Ground Up was funded by the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund.
