In recent years, prices for N fertilizer have increased dramatically, reducing net returns of fertilized pasture systems. A 5-yr study from 2005 to 2009 was conducted to evaluate management strategies and relative differences in profitability for 3 methods of backgrounding calves on smooth bromegrass pastures. Forty-five steers were used each year for a total of 225 animals in a randomized comp...

Diane L. Whiting,1,2 Grahame K. Simpson,1,3 Hamish J. McLeod,4 Frank P. Deane,2 and Joseph Ciarrochi5 1 Liverpool Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia 2 School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Australia 3 Rehabilitation Studies Unit, University of Sydney, Australia 4 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK 5 School of Soc...

School of Medicine and Pharmacology (B.B.Y., S.A.P.C., L.F., G.J.H.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes (B.B.Y.), Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, WA 6959, Australia; WA Centre for Health and Ageing (Z.H., O.P.A., L.F.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences...

In Australia and many other western industrialised countries, governments adopt a marketised approach to the provision of early childhood education and care (ECEC) (OECD, 2006). Implicit in such an approach is the assumption that parents have the capacity to discern centre quality. Undermining this premise, however, is a body of research that generally positions parents as having limited knowle...

BY GUY METCALFE1,*, DANIEL LESTER1, ALISON ORD2,6, PANDURANG KULKARNI3, MURRAY RUDMAN4, MIKE TREFRY5,6, BRUCE HOBBS2,6, KLAUS REGENAUR-LIEB2,6,7 AND JEFFERY MORRIS3 1Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO ) Division of Materials Science and Engineering, PO Box 56, Graham Road, Highett, Victoria 3190, Australia 2CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, 26 Dick Perry...

The objective of the present experiment was to describe the sward canopy structures of 3 different wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) pastures and relate them to short-term herbage intake rate and foraging dynamics by steers. Pastures were sampled for leaf and stem fractions at the bottom, middle, and top canopy strata. Sward surface heights and tiller and bulk densities were measured. Herbage was se...

An elevated concentration of water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) in grasses may increase the availability of readily degradable energy, increase milk production and improve the efficiency of nitrogen utilisation. Two ryegrasses with elevated WSC, a tetraploid Italian (IRG) and a diploid perennial selected for higher WSC (HSG), were compared against a standard diploid perennial (STG) during spring ...