570000mE 580000mE MOUNT ROSE LIMBUNYA NT Por 2092 LAND RESOURCES OF THE VICTORIA RIVER DISTRICT 8060000mN 8060000mN PASTURE RATING of .466 INVERWAY STATION For further information contact: Manager, Land Assessment, Rangelands Division, Napier, D.E. and Hill J.V. (2012) Department of Land Resource Management LAND RESOURCES OF THE VICTORIA RIVER DISTRICT Ph. (08) 8999 4443 Email:
[email protected] Technical Report No. 19/2012 Web: www.lrm.nt.gov.au Rangelands Division, Level 3, Goyder Centre, 25 Chung Wah Terrace, .444 Department of Land Resource Management, Palmerston, Northern Territory of Australia. Palmerston, Northern Territory PASTURE RATING Three broad pasture classes have been used to rate and describe the grazing National Committee on Soil and Terrain (2009). potential of native pastures. These are based on overall composition of species AUSTRALIAN SOIL AND LAND SURVEY in the pasture at any one site or collectively for sites across a land unit. .413 FIELD HANDBOOK (3rd edn). Swan Pasture ratings have been adapted from values calculated by the Department of Canberra, Australian Collaborative Land Primary Industries and Fisheries in Vallance et al. (1993). Evaluation Program, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. HIGH 8050000mN Creek 8050000mN Dominant species have very good grazing value. They are palatable, Isbell, RF (2002). Swan Bore nutritious and digestible. Common species include Mitchell grass THE AUSTRALIAN SOIL CLASSIFICATION. .467 (Astrebla spp.), Flinders grass (Iseilema spp.), Native couch (Brachyachne CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. convergens), Blue grass (Dichanthium spp.), Native Millet (Panicum decompositum), Golden beard grass (Chrysopogon fallax) and Limestone Executive Steering Committee for Australian grass (Enneapogon spp.) where prevalent. Vegetation Information(ESCAVI) (2003).