Forage brassicas have potential for wider use in drier, mixed crop–livestock farming systems across Australia
Lindsay W. Bell
A C , Lucinda J. Watt A and Rebecca S. Stutz B
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A CSIRO Agriculture and Food, PO Box 102, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia.
B CSIRO Agriculture and Food, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: lindsay.bell@csiro.au
Crop and Pasture Science 71(10) 924-943 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP20271
Submitted: 27 July 2020 Accepted: 21 September 2020 Published: 25 November 2020
Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2020 Open Access CC BY-NC
Abstract
Forage brassicas are currently widely used in temperate–humid livestock systems; however, they offer potential to diversify crop rotation and forage options in the drier, mixed crop–livestock zone of Australia. A literature review highlighted that in these hotter and more arid environments, forage brassicas are more likely to fit as autumn-sown forage crop where they offer an energy-rich, highly digestible feed source that could be used during periods of low production and nutritive value of other forage sources. However, brassicas can also accumulate several anti-nutritional compounds that require gradual introduction to livestock diets, thereby reducing potential health risks and optimising animal performance. Preliminary experimental and commercial evaluations in subtropical Australia found high production of some forage brassica genotypes (>5 t DM/ha with growth rates of 50–60 kg DM/ha.day), comparable or superior to widely used forage cereal or forage legume options. Several forage brassicas showed moderate to high resistance to the root-lesion nematode, Pratylenchus thornei, and hence are likely to provide break-crop benefits compared with susceptible species (e.g. wheat). Together, this evidence suggests that forage brassicas have significant potential for wider use in crop–livestock farming systems in Australia. However, research is needed to identify genotypic adaptation and to match different forage brassica genotypes to production environments or system niches, especially some of the new genotypes that are now available. There is also a need to develop regionally-relevant recommendations of agronomic and grazing management that optimise forage and animal production, and mitigate potential animal health risks.
Keywords: break crop, feed gap, grazing, nematodes, quality, rotation.
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