Projects and Updates

On 9th September 2025, Perennial Pasture Systems hosted its 16th Annual Conference – Taking Stock, bringing together producers, advisors and industry to reflect on recent

Thank you to everyone who joined our Less Mites, More Feed final webinar.

It was a great opportunity to hear the key findings and learnings from the project, including practical insights into improving the management of

Anyone who would like to help out with fencing clean up following last weeks fire at Streatham, please get in touch. I have been given the OK to commence next week.

Crews of 8-10

1 day committment.

I was told yesterday of 1 property with 160km alone to clean up - so lots to do.

Stuart - 0407 319196

The predictions aren’t telling us what you probably all know too well. Soil moisture is certainly better at all sites than last year– but in the last month, the soil moisture

PPS has a 3 year project looking at the value of Arrowleaf clover in a sheep production system in the PPS area. This is being run as an Enhanced Producer Demonstration site, co-funded by MLA and Agriculture Victoria and

Perennial Pasture System (PPS) has an existing soil moisture and temperature probe network providing daily readings of soil conditions. These are currently presented as weekly graphs and in seasonal summaries of soil moisture availability. Agriculture Victoria has access to the CSIRO "Grass Gro" computer simulation

Aim; to demonstrate that winter active fescue can be a valuable pasture system tool in the <550 mm rainfall zone in Victoria.

Approximately 40% (>50) of PPS member farms are located north of the Great Dividing Range in Central Western Victorian.

Established in 2009 it is a two paddock trial site, one trialing lucerne in the Ordovician foothill country of the Great Dividing Range, where lucerne pastures have not been traditionally established. The other paddock is a best practice phalaris management site. Both trials