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313 MyPestGuide: To identify pests. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/plant- biosecurity/ mypestguide-app Wheat diagnostic tool: A sy ...

314 5 Grazing and Pastoral Systems Grazing animals, largely sheep and cattle, have comprised a major part of the dry- land agric ...

315 Much, if not all, of the private research conducted by companies with interests in chemicals, plant breeding and fertilisers ...

316 Anderson WK, Hoyle FC (1999) Nitrogen efficiency of wheat genotypes in a Mediterranean envi- ronment. Aust J Exp Agric 39:95 ...

317 Cooper M, Woodruff DR, Phillips IG, Basford KE, Gilmour AR (2001) Genotype-by-management interactions for grain yield and gr ...

318 Leeper GW (1964) Introduction to soil science. Melbourne University Press, Parkville, p. 253 Lemerle D, Cousens RD, Gill GS, ...

319 Sadras VO, Lawson C (2011) Genetic gain in yield and associated changes in phenotype, trait plasticity and competitive abili ...

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322 southern Queensland, and throughout the high rainfall coastal zone (Bell et al. 2014 ; Walcott et al. 2013 ). In southern Qu ...

323 responsible for 60 % of production, but by 2015 these had merged into two large, vertically-integrated processing companies ...

324 Australian livestock producers must manage marked seasonality in rainfall inci- dence, except in some coastal regions and th ...

325 In mixed-farming regions, pasture legumes traditionally supplied much of the nitrogen (N) demand for crops (Hill 1996 ) and ...

326 remote- sensed NDVI^2 (ABARE-BRS 2010 ), but methods have varied, with grassy woodlands sometimes included but sometimes not ...

327 and 55 % cropped. Recent benchmarking studies undertaken in the mixed-farming zone have shown that most cropping farmers hav ...

328 pasture categories in agricultural censuses. Between 1990 and 1995, clearing increased grazing of native vegetation areas in ...

329 3 Managing and Maintaining Pastures Two pasture audits have been carried out across the ILZ since 1990. The first occurred f ...

330 Between the two surveys, the area of forage lucerne (alfalfa) increased to 2.3 Mha, and specific legumes adapted to acidic o ...

331 national flock)—and 9.2 million cattle—74 million DSE (using a rate of one cattle animal to eight sheep)—totalling 278 milli ...

332 3.2 Soil Nutrient Status and Management The N status of Australian pastures has changed substantially since the 1980s when t ...

333 indicating P deficiencies (Wong et al. 2012 ). In permanent pasture regions receiving 600 mm rainfall, Colwell-P values wer ...