Dual Purpose Crops – Do they add value?

The Productivity & Profitability series presents new and topical information to help southern producers increase the success of their businesses. Beef, sheep and goat producers can listen to a diverse range of expert speakers present webinars to aid on-farm decision making.

Shawn McGrath is an agricultural scientist and Senior Research Fellow at the Gulbali Institute at Charles Sturt University. He completed a PhD considering the context of grazing reproducing ewes on dual-purpose wheat and has since been part of several other research projects investigating the utilisation of dual-purpose crops in farming systems and the prevention of metabolic diseases in sheep associated with crop grazing. 

The webinar covers:

• The opportunity of dual-purpose crops to increase profitability in mixed-farming enterprises.
• Management requirements of dual-purpose crops to optimise livestock production and grain yield.
• Forage quality and expected growth rates from grazing dual-purpose crops.