Improved legume pastures increase economic value, resilience and sustainability of crop-livestock systems

Marta Monjardino, Angelo Loi, Dean T. Thomas, Clinton K. Revell, Bonnie M. Flohr, Rick S. Llewellyn and Hayley C. Norman

Agricultural Systems, 2022, vol. 203, issue C

Abstract: Well-managed legume pastures play a crucial role in agricultural systems, contributing to strategies for the increasingly complex challenges of supplying meat and wool, improving soil fertility, increasing land use efficiency while minimising environmental impacts, and building system resilience.

Keywords: Whole-farm modelling; Land use; Nitrogen fertiliser; GHG emissions; Western Australia; Mediterranean bioclimates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103519

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