A maximum sustainable stocking rate system in central Australia: Woodgreen Station, NT
A maximum sustainable stocking rate system in central Australia: Woodgreen Station, NT Report
DKCRC Working Paper
- Author(s): Walsh, D
- Published: 2009
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Volume: 54
Abstract: There are 29 paddocks of varying sizes on Woodgreen. Fences are three wire barb, with steel pickets every 22 metres. There are 53 waters on the property. The fences are built so that the bottom wire is quite high off the ground. This protects them from fires and also stops kangaroos from breaking the bottom wire. It also allows them to cut off the scrub growing near the fence lines with a grader (note that the soil surface is not scraped, in order to prevent erosion). Two thirds of the productive country is spelled at any given time and sustainable numbers are run. The steers and older cows are run on the best country and each mob is rotated between two paddocks. Seven small (~50 head) mobs of breeders and the unmated heifers each have three paddocks of equivalent carrying capacity to rotate through. The Purvis’s philosophy for the past 40 years has been to get the country into the best possible condition and keep it there.
- Urls: http://www.nintione.com.au/resource/DKCRC-Working-Paper-54_CAGSP-Woodgreen-Station-NT.pdf, https://web.archive.org/web/20180405112808/http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/resource/DKCRC-Working-Paper-54_CAGSP-Woodgreen-Station-NT.pdf
- Publisher Location: Alice Springs
- Keywords: Northern Territory, CAGSP, pastoralism