Phosphorus fertilizer offers a huge opportunity to increase productivity and profitability of sown pastures in northern Australia

The Brigalow Belt bioregion of Queensland is an important part of the northern Australian beef industry as it supports a large proportion of the sown pastures and cattle herd with relatively high stocking and growth rates. Clay soils were widely thought to have adequate plant available phosphorus (P) levels for sown pastures leading to extremely low rates of fertiliser use. Recent studies show large and increasing areas of low plant available soil P and large responses by pasture legumes to P fertiliser precipitating a review (Peck et al., 2015) which this paper summarises.

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Northern Beef Research Update Conference

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