Rangelands
The arid and semi-arid areas of New South Wales are commonly referred to as ‘rangelands’. These lands generally lie to the west of the 500 mm average rainfall limit. The main enterprise is extensive grazing of predominantly native pastures. On the eastern and southern margins of the rangelands, extensive grazing occurs in conjunction with broadacre cropping and areas of intensive irrigated agriculture. Collectively, the semi-arid and arid zones occupy about 60 per cent of the State.
Publications and information
- Agisting cattle in the Western Division
- Best management practices for extensive grazing enterprises
- Betting on rain - Managing seasonal risk in western NSW
- Cereals for grazing
- Grassed up – guidelines for revegetating with Australian native grasses
- Management burning of invasive native scrub: principles
- Management burning of invasive native scrub: techniques
- Restoration of degraded grazing country in the semi-arid areas of NSW
- The kurrajong
Research
From the bookshop
- The glove box guide to tactical grazing management for the semi-arid woodlands (book)
- The glove box guide to growth, flowering and seeding of plants of the NSW rangelands (book)
- The glove box guide to useful trees and shrubs for central west NSW (book)
- Plants of western New South Wales (book)
- Managing and conserving grassy woodlands (book)
- Living with kangaroos: a guide to kangaroos and their management in the Murray Darling Basin (book)
- Trees for shelter - A guide to using windbreaks on Australian farms (book)
- Grasses of temperate Australia - a field guide (book)
- Native grasses (book)
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