Evergraze is developing new farming systems for the high rainfall zone (>550mm) based on deep rooted perennial pastures that significantly increase wool and livestock producers’ profits, while stabilising or enhancing natural resource management (NRM) outcomes.
On most farms there are a range of land classes that require different management practices in order to ensure economic and environmental sustainability. On most farms, only a proportion of land is suited to high input, improved pasture systems while other land is suited to lower inputs and native pastures.
Native pastures cover a vast area of the high rainfall zone and make a major contribution to biodiversity but sometimes lack quality for high producing animals and are often threatened by weed invasion and poor grazing practices. So farming systems based on improved and / or native pastures will provide the greatest opportunities to address profit and natural resource outcomes.
EverGraze will:
provide proof that high input livestock production systems in the high rainfall zone can be 50% more profitable, while at the same time reducing groundwater recharge by 50%
provide proof that native pastures, either alone, or combined with improved pastures can deliver a 50% increase in profit and a significant improvement in key, regionally important, NRM indicators
ensure adoption of EverGraze principles and recommended practices on 3,600 properties across the high rainfall zone
EverGraze is a partnership between Australian Wool Innovation, Meat and Livestock Australia, CRC for Plant based Management of Dryland Salinity (CRC Salinity) and regional catchment agencies.
