Mutualism on Australian heritage breed farms

Changes in Worm Control Practices on Western Australian Sheep Farms

“We Work as a Team Really”: Gender Homophily on Australian Cotton Farms

This paper is based on an ongoing study that looks at farm management practices by Australian women cotton growers using farm management software, most particularly an agricultural decision support system, CottonLOGIC. The study is informed through a theoretical framework of structuration theory as a metatheory for probing the recursiveness of farm management and technology usage, and diffusion...

Fertiliser management effects on dissolved inorganic nitrogen in runoff from Australian sugarcane farms

Dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) movement from Australian sugarcane farms is believed to be a major cause of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks which have reduced the Great Barrier Reef coral cover by ~21% (1985-2012). We develop a daily model of DIN concentration in runoff based on >200 field monitored runoff events. Runoff DIN concentrations were related to nitrogen fertiliser application r...

Early indicators of the extent of climate change on Australian farms

J Crean, KA Parton, P Hayman and JD Mullen NSW Department of Industry and Innovation, Orange NSW 2800 Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Business, Orange NSW 2800 South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide Abstract. More research is needed before we know the implications of climate change for Australian farms. Nevertheless given the information at hand, an assessment can be...

Indigenous Bali Cattle: The Best Suited Cattle Breed for Sustainable Small Farms in Indonesia

Indonesia has a total population of around 206 million with 4.5 million households keeping livestock. About half of the cattle farmers are small farmers. The Indonesian archipelago is a land area of 1.8 million km consisting of over 13,000 islands stretching from the Western tip of Sumatra to the Eastern border of Papua. The largest island, Kalimantan (Borneo), covers 28% of the total land area...