Kangaroo Island - Summer Active Perennials Good for Farmers and the Environment

Sponsored group, Kangaroo Island Agricultural Bureau, will undertake this project with the sponsorship of Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated. This project will increase the resilience of grazing systems on Kangaroo Island by promoting to landholders a more species diverse pasture mix that incorporates summer active perennials. Through use of 3 demonstration sites, monitoring and extensive promotion, landholders will be shown these are profitable and achieve significant environmental benefits, such as reducing erosion risk, nutrient run-off and salinity, while also improving soil health and soil carbon. This will result in increased use of perennials and greater pasture species mixes by 25 farmers over 1,250 hectares