TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

1. INTRODUCTION
2. IMPROVING PASTURES
• ADVANTAGES OF IMPROVED PASTURE
• PASTURE ESTABLISHMENT
• Financial considerations
• SITE SELECTION
• Some important considerations regarding bush clearing
• SELECTION OF SPECIES
• TIMING OF PLANTING
• METHOD OF PADDOCK PLANTING
• Establishing pasture with cuttings
• Paddock Establishment- 1. Establishing improved pastures into existing pastures
1. Open T-grass
2. Shaded T-grass
3. Open carpet grass
4. Shaded carpet grass
• Paddock establishment- 2. Establishing improved pasture from cuttings into forest
• Establishing pastures with seed
• STORAGE OF SEED
• PREPARING THE GROUND FOR PLANTING SEED
• METHODS OF SEEDING
• SCARIFYING AND INOCULATING LEGUME SEED
• PASTURE SPECIES FOR VANUATU
• Grasses
• Other useful commercial grass species
• Native or naturalized legumes
• New promising legumes
• WEED IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL
• RECOGNISING WEEDS
• Pico
• Blue Rat's Tail
• Wild Pistache
• Wild Tobacco
• Lantana
• Big Leaf Broom
• Small Leaf Broom
• Mile-a-minute
• Fern
• Wild Taro
• Wild Kava
• Nangalat and regrowth species
• Korosol
• Guava
• Nasasa
• Spiny Amaranth
• Castor Oil Plant
• hibiscus Burr
• SAFE AND PROPER METHODS OF USING HERBICIDES
• Protective clothing for herbicide application
• How to use a knapsack spray
• How to poison large trees
• CORRECT STOCKING RATE AND HEIGHT FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF OPEN PASTURE
• THE CORRECT STOCKING RATE FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF PASTURE - COW AND CALF
• LOW RAINFALL AND INFERTILE SOILS; WHAT WILL THE PASTURE SUPPORT?
• GROWTH FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF PASTURE
• LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING
• THREE DIFFERENT WAYS OF RAISING CATTLE
• A VILLAGE BUTCHERY BUSINESS
• DEVELOPING A FARM
• Starting a farm, or increasing the size of a farm
• How to start a small cattle project
• MANAGING CATTLE
• Culling and stocking rate
• Castration
• Weaning and heifer separation
• Changing a bull
• THE STOCKYARD
• ECONOMICS OF VARIOUS SMALLHOLDER PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
• CATTLE IN SMALLHOLDER FARMING SYSTEMS