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“Our program came down to helping herders find ways to improve their grassland, restore it back to a more productive state, and to improve the income of herders”. Professor David Kemp.
Charles Sturt researchers have been focused on healthy and resilient soils and farming systems research, reducing pesticides and developing competitive crops and pastures. The use of dung beetles, for example, has resulted in improved soil water infiltration and reduced fly and nematode pests for millions of hectares of grazing livestock production across Australia. Selecting and growing competitive pasture and broadacre crops have reduced the need for herbicides and the incidence of herbicide resistance in broadacre cropping systems across southern Australia. This approach also nurtured greater crop biodiversity resulting in improved cost benefits in mixed production systems.