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ALOSCA Tech Bulletin 01 – Summer Sowing Pastures.

A new pasture establishment technique designed to use nature to soften hard seed and pods of some pasture varieties.
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Summer Sowing Technical BulletinDownload …>>

Article ~ Clay granules prove successful for adding nitrogen

https://www.theland.com.au/story/6444500/clay-granules-prove-successful-for-adding-nitrogen/?cs=4937

A well nodulated winter legume with its specific rhizobia bacteria strain. …>>

Survey supports what you’ve noticed with sub-clover nodulation

A survey funded by Meat and Livestock Australia and AWI looking at sub-clover background rhizobium supports what producers have been casually observing for some time.
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Press article – Farm Weekly Jan 2018 …>>

Tech Bulletin 03, How to check your nodulation

Assessing your legume nodulation annually during winter provides the opportunity to build a paddock by paddock understanding of your nitrogen fixation capacity.
When to look, what you’ll need and how to go about is all explained. …>>

Growing their own Nitrogen

An article from the June edition of Farming Ahead highlighting the many benefits of new generation forage legumes to both crop and livestock farming. Click link below…
The annual pasture legume Margurita® French serradella has changed Colin and Anna Butcher’s farm and it’s changed their lives as well, …>>

Amy Corsini takes ALOSCA Prize for Pasture Production & Utilisation at Muresk Awards Night

Amy Corsini has been won this year’s ALOSCA  student prize for Pasture Production & Utilisation at Muresk’s annual awards ceremony held last week.

Amy Corsini with ALOSCA’s Product Development Manager Floyd Sullivan at the Muresk Awards Ceremony on the 5th of May 2016
ALOSCA has a keen interest in pasture production technologies and we are delighted to support those who also show an aptitude to and apply themselves in this important facet of the agricultural industry. …>>

Serradella kicking goals. Check it out Field Day this Thursday 28/4/16.

Anna and Colin Butcher at Brookton, in conjunction with DAFWA and Murdoch University, began redeveloping their approach to mixed farming 5 years ago. They restructured their entire cropping and sheep program, and based it upon summer sowing with self-regenerating hard seeded legumes. …>>

Press article – Innovative developments set revolutionise pasture crop rotation benefits

Press article –  Innovative developments set revolutionise pasture crop rotation  benefits
At a glance

• Sub-clover nitrogen fixation capacity needs
• Summer sowing of new generation pastures doubling
  • Pasture sowing doesn’t compete with winter cropping program
  • Better first year pasture performance – more N fixed
  • Better weed competition in comparison conventional late sowing times
  • Better livestock production from legume-based pastures

Press article – …>>

ALOSCA Tech Bulletin 02 – Top-dressing and head-start inoculation

Top-dressing and head-start inoculation are proving successful in the field.
Introducing new inoculant strains to pasture paddocks can be achieved without reseeding.
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Tech Bulletin 02 Top Dressing Pastures Alosca …>>

Nodule Scoring System for Pulse legumes

If you’re digging up your crop legumes to check the nodulation use this nodule rating system. This is the system used by the Centre for Rhizobium Studies (CRS) at Murdoch University www.crs.murdoch.edu.au to assess their field samples. …>>