SHEEP producers on the South Coast and in the Great Southern are set to benefit from the expansion of a long-running grazing systems analysis project to include soil and nutrient measurements.
The Department of Agriculture and Food’s five-year-old project has been comparing the productivity, profitability and sustainability of two adjacent 20 hectare farms at its Mt Barker research station.
One farmlet contains annual pastures, while the other comprises annual and perennial pastures.
Natural Resource Management southern region manager Colin Hyde said $43,000 in Federal and State funds had been made available through South Coast NRM as part of the Wilson Inlet Catchment Committee’s Upper Hay strategic catchment project.
The funds would build on the existing project.
He said a full soil analysis would help understand the effects on soils, including perennials.
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