Conservative stocking in central Australia: Lyndavale Station, NT
Conservative stocking in central Australia: Lyndavale Station, NT Report
DKCRC Working Paper
- Author(s): Walsh, D
- Published: 2009
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Volume: 50
Abstract: Lyndavale was subdivided from Erldunda station in 1987 and was relatively undeveloped at that time. The Stanes have thus had to develop the infrastructure on Lyndavale from scratch over the past twenty years. Initially, they divided the whole property into smaller paddocks. However, John and Anne have since removed the dividing fences in the less productive mulga sandhill country as “they created a lot of work and expense in relation to their return”. This mulga country is now a single large paddock managed by controlling the 25 waters within it. The 25 bores are well spread, with none having overlapping grazing zones. The more productive country (the calcareous plains) is fenced into smaller paddocks. There is a weaner heifer paddock where the young females are put for about eight months before they are moved to the larger mulga paddock. The weaner heifer paddock thus has young cattle moving in and out of it and gets a spell every year. When the heifers are moved to the mulga country, they are not simply mixed up with the cows already in the paddock. Instead, they are put onto three or four different bores with others of their age group. This allows the Stanes to manage the grazing regime on each bore. As the cows reach about eight years of age they are sold and these bores then get a spell until a new group of young heifers is introduced. The Stanes also have a weaner steer paddock and a bullock paddock in the more productive country. In dry periods the grazing pressure is managed and if necessary some extra classes of steers will be trucked off depending on the markets at the time. The Stanes are in the process of dividing the bullock paddock in half to increase flexibility in managing grazing pressure and spelling.
- Urls: http://www.nintione.com.au/resource/DKCRC-Working-Paper-50_CAGSP-Lyndavale-Station-NT.pdf, https://web.archive.org/web/20180405112319/http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/resource/DKCRC-Working-Paper-50_CAGSP-Lyndavale-Station-NT.pdf
- Publisher Location: Alice Springs
- Keywords: Northern Territory, Central Australia, CAGSP, pastoralism