Webinars, online training courses and key resources found on MLA’s Grazing land management hub that will help you upskill and make the most out of your feedbase.
Managing grazing land well is a key profit driver which underpins the health and productivity of livestock.
At MLA’s Grazing land management hub, producers can find the right resources and learning opportunities to help them improve the management and utilisation of their feedbase.
Here are four online resources you can use to improve your grazing land management skills.
1. FutureBeef webinar series
FutureBeef is considered a one-stop shop for all information regarding northern beef enterprises.
The MLA collaborative program with the Queensland, NT and WA governments offer webinars that share the latest practical tools and timely advice.
There are currently 63 webinars available at the FutureBeef website with relevant pasture webinars covering:
- pasture dieback
- understanding supplements
- pathways towards carbon neutral grazing systems
- high intensity rotational grazing vs continuous grazing
- understanding and making the most out of forecasts
- drought management
- Leucaena management
- weed management
- forage budgeting and pasture utilisation.
Watch a webinar now at futurebeef.com.au/resource-type/webinars
2. Productivity and profitability webinars
MLA’s Productivity and profitability webinars offer new and topical information to help southern producers increase the success of their businesses.
Pasture webinars cover a range of issues faced by southern producers by offering solutions and further advice to better pasture productivity.
The pasture series covers:
- oestrogenic clovers – identification and remediation
- preferential clovers to sow in southern pastures
- fodder conservation in late spring
- winter cleaning agronomy
- the effects of temperature on pasture production
- a review of chemical manipulation in pastures: where are the costs and benefits?
- the use of nitrogen in pastures.
Overall, there are more than 65 informative webinars to assist southern producers with land and business management. A new Productivity and profitability webinar series will be launched in winter 2023 so stay tuned.
Click here to watch a Productivity and profitability webinar now.
3. Online training course – healthy soils and pastures
MLA’s free e-learning platform, The Toolbox offers a flexible way for producers to expand their knowledge, anytime and anywhere. Producers can choose from a range of packages which take 15–20 minutes to complete.
Healthy, fertile soils drive pasture productivity and deliver environmental benefits through improved water and nutrient use with less risk of surface run-off, erosion and deep drainage. Healthy soils and pastures is an online training course with nine modules covering:
- assessing nodulation in legumes
- establishing a new pasture
- optimising seedling recruitment to avoid resowing
- soil testing
- spray-grazing to remove weeds
- using hay and silage production to remove annual grasses
- utilising legumes in the mixed farming zone
- visual indicators of soil condition
- winter cleaning pastures.
Head to elearning.mla.com.au to complete the training course now.
4. MLA’s resource hubs
MLA’s Grazing land management hub offers a range of helpful resource hubs to help producers keep their feedbase productive.
The hub’s cover a range of area’s for both northern and southern producers with a key focus on:
- legumes
- Leucaena
- phosphorus
- weed control
- dung beetles
- persistent pastures.
These hubs also provide links to the best tools, courses or programs to get involved in to improve pasture productivity and grazing land management.
