Range management
Egg Industry Range Regeneration Guidelines
These guidelines are designed to assist in regenerating existing ranges, encouraging optimal management, and providing insight into common range management issues and how these can be mitigated when establishing new farms or ranges.
Industry can use these guidelines to ensure free range egg farms are developed, designed, and managed to minimise the risk and severity of range degradation. The guidelines also provide information that range managers can use to identify strategies to regenerate ranges when unavoidable degradation occurs. It is further envisaged that the guidelines and accompanying case studies will assist individual producers in identifying new or novel and cost-effective range management and regeneration strategies by sharing practices and learnings.
Pasture Selection and Management Guide
The Pasture Selection and Management Guide was produced in 2021. It provides key information for egg farmers on managing and improving range areas, covering topics such as:
- which farm factors to consider when selecting plants to plant on the range
- a guide to different pasture types
- steps for establishing a successful perennial pasture
- guide to different range regeneration strategies
- guidance for selecting and planting trees on the range
- list of poisonous plants for layers
- tips for considering runoff management when planning the range
- real life case studies from farms that have experimented with different plants on their ranges
Click here to access the full version online, or contact Australian Eggs to order a printed copy.
Environmental Guide Factsheet
A fact sheet on management of free range areas was developed from the Environmental Guidelines. Click on the factsheet to access online.
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