Articles and Publications
Articles
- Rangelands of central-western Queensland – building resilient and diverse livestock production systems
- Adapting cattle strategies to climate change
- Northern Australian grazing industry to benefit from new climate project
- Improving beef business performance with phosphorus supplementation
Publications
- Dry season management of a beef business
- The Northern Australia Climate Program has published a range of scientific publications and reports on their website.
- Mapping reminders: Qld Globe, FORAGE and VegMachine
Scientific journal publications
Bowen MK, Chudleigh F, Sallur NM, Sommerfield J (2022) Opportunities to build resilience of beef cattle properties in the mulga lands of south-western Queensland, Australia. The Rangeland Journal 44, 115-128. doi: 10.1071/RJ21057. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/pdf/RJ21057
Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2022) Can a return to small ruminants increase profitability and drought resilience in the semiarid rangelands of northern Australia? Animal Production Science 62, 975-982. doi: 10.1071/AN21422. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/an/pdf/AN21422
Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2021) Achieving drought resilience in the grazing lands of northern Australia: preparing, responding and recovering. The Rangeland Journal 43, 67-76. doi: 1071/RJ20058. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/pdf/RJ20058
Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2021) An economic framework to evaluate alternative management strategies for beef enterprises in northern Australia. Animal Production Science 61, 271-281. doi: 10.1071/AN20125. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/an/pdf/AN20125
Bowen MK, Chudleigh F, Phelps D (2021) Bio-economic evaluation of grazing-management options for beef cattle enterprises during drought episodes in semiarid grasslands of northern Australia. Animal Production Science 61, 72-83. doi: 10.1071/AN19691. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN19691
Bowen MK, Chudleigh F, Dixon RM, Sullivan MT, Schatz T, Oxley T (2020) The economics of phosphorus supplementation of beef cattle grazing northern Australian rangelands. Animal Production Science 60, 683-693. doi: 10.1071/AN19088. Available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN19088
Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2019) Productivity and profitability of alternative steer growth paths resulting from accessing high quality forage systems in the subtropics of northern Australia: a modelling approach. Animal Production Science 59, 1739-1751. doi: 10.1071/AN18311. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN18311
Bowen MK, Chudleigh F (2018) Grazing pressure, land condition, productivity and profitability of beef cattle grazing buffel grass pastures in the subtropics of Australia: a modelling approach. Animal Production Science 58, 1451-1458. doi: 10.1071/AN17780. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN17780
Chudleigh F, Bowen M, Holmes B (2019) Farm economic thinking and the genetic improvement of fertility in northern beef herds. In 'Proceedings of the 63rd Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) Annual Conference'. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Available at https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/285095?ln=en
Cobon, D., Kouadio, L., Mushtaq, S., Jarvis, S., Carter, J., Stone, G., Davis, P. (2019). Evaluating the shifts in rainfall and pasture-growth variabilities across the pastoral zone of Australia during 1910–2010 . Crop and Pasture Science, 70(7):634-647.
Stone, G., Dalla Pozza, R., Carter J., & McKeon, G. (2019). Long Paddock: climate risk and grazing information for Australian rangelands and grazing communities . The Rangeland Journal, 41, 225–232
For a full copy of the papers, contact:
Project leader – Dr Maree Bowen, DAF Rockhampton at Maree.Bowen@daf.qld.gov.au
Principal economist – Fred Chudleigh, DAF Toowoomba at Fred.Chudleigh@daf.qld.gov.au
NACP project leader – David Cobon, University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Toowoomba at David.Cobon@usq.edu.au
