Soils are enormously diverse and can be very confusing to understand and talk about.

This booklet is designed to help farmer groups, natural resource management (NRM) or catchment groups, individual farmers and advisers to see the benefits of incorporating forage shrubs into mixed farming systems, particularly, but not exclusively, for areas where other perennial plant options are limited.

A lack of green feed during summer and autumn was stopping Western Australian farmer Don Nairn from increasing his stocking rate and farm livestock profitability. However, by introducing forage shrubs Don achieved this without the risk of soil erosion — a potential problem on his sandplain soils. Combined with strip grazing; incorporating the forage shrubs tagasaste, rhagodia and old man saltbush has allowed him to maintain his flock throughout the year and increase profitability.

This project was funded by Meat & Livestock Australia, Australian Wool Innovation and the CSIRO; project code L.LSM.0018 – No More Gaps With Superior Shrub Systems

This project’s aim was to determine the viability of using saltbush revegetation to sequester carbon and provide data to make a case for the development of a methodology under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 (CFI Act).

Wheatbelt NRM has developed this Regional NRM Strategy to guide future understanding and priorities for the management of the natural resources of the Avon River Basin.

A guide for landowners to make use of marginally productive land by planting and utilizing forage shrubs for livestock and soil health and/or to plant Sandalwood plantations to diversify income over the long term.

This guide is for land managers, farmers and communities interested in agroforestry-based revegetation options that provide both natural resource and production-based outcomes for the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

Plant taxonomy, the study and process of naming and classification, is often a mystery to the uninitiated.

An easy-to-use reference in the preparation, trapping and identification of dung beetles on your property.

This guide has been developed to present some of the approaches Wheatbelt farmers are taking to address soil health issues in the region.

This report reviews the current literature to provide a summary of the biodiversity benefits of agroforestry systems that could be utilised in the Western Australian Wheatbelt.

This report documents a snapshot study of the biodiversity outcomes at 30 production and nonproduction based revegetation sites in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.