EVENTS
The Leucaena Network has finalised all our 2023 Events and the Executive and Staff are letting the dust settle on a few very big years! Stay tuned for what is coming up later in 2024!
THE LEUCAENA NETWORK NEWSLETTERS
LEUCAENA IN THE NEWS
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ABC NT Country Hour with Matt Brann
Hear from The Leucaena Network's Bron Christensen and Blackbull Station's Logan Reid about leucaena in the NT - recorded at November's Blackbull Station Field Day.
MOUNT SURPRISE BEEF PRODUCERS REAP REWARDS OF LEUCAENA
North Queensland Register
4.7.2022
Mount Surprise beef producers have successfully utilised leucaena in their grazing rotations after planting the scrub in uncleared basalt country. Tom and Christine Saunders of Whitewater Station took part in a leucaena pasture trial that saw their cattle gain upwards of 0.8 kilograms a day.
BANANA GRAZIERS REGENERATING CROPPING LAND
Queensland Country Life
25.08.2022
Regenerating cropping land to establish Leucaena and healthy pastures in sodic soils was the main focus of a recent grazing workshop for producers held in Banana. More than 100 local graziers and industry representatives attended the workshop at Ruth and Tom Wagner's Fairlea property and Myles Ballentine's Banana property.
LEUCAENA WEIGHT GAINS THROUGH SUPPLY CHAIN UNDER MICROSCOPE
Queensland Country Life
23 April 2020
TRIALS assessing live weight gains in weaners grazing the legume fodder crop leucaena across northern Australia are about to kick off. In an interesting twist, the work will track the weight gains of the Brahman cattle through the supply chain, whether they go to feedlots, live export or direct to slaughter.
CENTRAL QUEENSLAND LEUCAENA DELIVERS WAGYU PRODUCTIVITY
Queensland Country Life
7.11.2018
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CENTRAL Queensland beef producers Paul and Clare Harris say there has never been anything like leucaena when it comes to growing cattle. “It’s doubled our productivity and Wagyu cattle have doubled our profitability,” Mr Harris said, who began planting the tree 25 years ago.
PRODUCERS INVESTIGATE SOUTH AMERICAN GRAZING SYSTEMS
Farm Online National
03.12.2019
WITH the view to investigating new ways to extend the application of Leucaena plantings and grazing systems in Queensland, a group of eight producers has just wrapped up a tour to Colombia and Paraguay to view Silvopastoral systems and attend the Tenth Global Silvopastoral Congress.
WONDER WEEDS
ABC Landline - Kristy Sexton-McGrath
29.09.2018
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Leucaena has been seen as a wonder fodder adding as much as a kilogram a day to cattle. But new evidence suggests that it doesn’t just help beef up livestock, it's also helping the planet by reducing the amount of methane cattle produce.
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STERILE LEUCAENA ATTRACTS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
A group of international researchers has thrown its support behind WA scientists in their quest to develop a high value feed for the State’s northern cattle industry.
The researchers have shared their experience to support the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development’s feasibility studies to breed a seedless (sterile) Leucaena variety as a valuable forage plant with a significantly reduced weed risk.