Farm level assessments of a novel drought tolerant forage: Tedera (Bituminaria bituminosa C.H. Stirt var. albomarginata)

Finlayson, John D.; Real, Daniel; Nordblom, Thomas L.; Revell, Clinton; Ewing, Michael A.; Kingwell, Ross

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2012.06.001

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“…Our study area is the central area of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt. At 5.2 million hectares (Finlayson et al ), this is a large and important agricultural region in Australia which produces approximately 11% and 40% of Australia’s wool and wheat exports, respectively (and around 7% and 5% of the wool and wheat traded internationally – ABARES ). However, under suitable conditions (policy, economic and climatic), reforestation of this farmland could provide sequestration.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The MIDAS model for the study area has a long history of use (e.g. Petersen et al ; Kingwell ; Finlayson et al ; Kragt et al ; Thamo et al ), and it was recently updated and re‐validated by Thamo et al (). Consistent with contemporary farm businesses in this area, we assume a 3,200 ha farm with eight soil types (these soils are described in more detail in Thamo et al ).…”

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confidence: 79%

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Climate change reduces the mitigation obtainable from sequestration in an Australian farming system

Thamo

Addai

Kragt

et al. 2019

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Agricultural research on climate change generally follows two themes: (i) impact and adaptation or (ii) mitigation and emissions. Despite both being simultaneously relevant to future agricultural systems, the two are usually studied separately. By contrast, this study jointly compares the potential impacts of climate change and the effects of mitigation policy on farming systems in the central region of Western Australia's grainbelt, using the results of several biophysical models integrated into a whole-farm bioeconomic model. In particular, we focus on the potential for interactions between climate impacts and mitigation activities. Results suggest that, in the study area, farm profitability is much more sensitive to changes in climate than to a mitigation policy involving a carbon price on agricultural emissions. Climate change reduces the profitability of agricultural production and, as a result, reduces the opportunity cost of reforesting land for carbon sequestration. Nonetheless, the financial attractiveness of reforestation does not necessarily improve because climate change also reduces tree growth and, therefore, the income from sequestration. Consequently, at least for the study area, climate change has the potential to reduce the amount of abatement obtainable from sequestrationa result potentially relevant to the debate about the desirability of sequestration as a mitigation option. * We thank Jenny Carter for her assistance with the 3PG modelling and Brett Bryan for his feedback on drafts of this manuscript.

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Climate change reduces the mitigation obtainable from sequestration in an Australian farming system

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Kragt

et al. 2019

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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“…Finally, B. basaltica could also be an interesting species to study for its potential use as a pasture grass and forage plant, similarly to B. bituminosa which has increased in agronomical appeal during the last decade (Méndez & Fernández 1990, Gutman et al 2000, Sternberg et al 2006, Walker et al 2006, Real et al 2009, Ventura et al 2004, Gulumser et al 2010, Finlayson et al 2012. The use of B. bituminosa as forage species is well known in the Canary Islands for a long time (Méndez 2000), where it is not cultivated but spontaneously grazed by livestock or, more frequently, collected and offered to the livestock as hay, thus removing its typical smell of bitumen which causes the refusal by animals when it is still green.…”

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“…In particular, B. bituminosa var. albomarginata, which occurs exclusively in Lanzarote (Canary Islands), was introduced to Australia in 2005 (Finlayson et al 2012), in order to experimentally evaluate it for potential release as a commercial forage crop. Its extreme drought tolerance, lower invasiveness together with its ability to produce relatively high quality feed throughout the year, is extremely interesting (Ventura et al 2009).…”

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<i>Bituminaria basaltica</i> (Fabaceae), a new species from Italy

Minissale

Brullo²,

Brullo³

et al. 2013

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Bituminaria basaltica is described and illustrated from Filicudi, an islet of the Aeolian Archipelago (Sicily, Italy). This new species, belonging to a small genus of Fabaceae occurring in the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands, is morphologically distinct from the other taxa in the following features: leaf shape and size, inflorescence size, petal colour, size and shape of flowers, pods and seeds. Its relationships with the known species of Bituminaria are examined and a key to the genus is provided.

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“…Adaptation is defined by the (IPCC) (2009) as 'adjustment in natural and human systems in response to actual or expected climate stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities'. The Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FFI CRC) (2012) has conducted research on the effects of new perennial plants on agricultural productivity under existing conditions, including agronomic evaluation of a new pasture plant, Tedera (see Finlayson et al (2012)), and a coppicing eucalypt tree (mallee) grown for biomass (see Stucley et al (2012)).…”

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Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate change in southern Australia

Farquharson¹,

Abadi²,

Finlayson³

et al. 2013

Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. And Boland J. (Eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

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An important issue for Australian agriculture is the capacity to adapt to predicted climate change. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2009) refers to adaptation as 'adjustment in natural and human systems in response to actual or expected climate stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities'. Conceptualizing and evaluating adaptation options in agricultural industries should be conducted at the farming systems level (Rickards et al. (2012), Hayman et al. ( 2012)) because it is at this level that management decisions are made and financial as well as natural resource impacts will be felt. In particular whole-farm analysis can represent purposeful, goal-seeking systems (Dillon 1976) to assess farmers' profitability and the system's sensitivity to risks such as climate variability and change. The potential of Australian dryland agricultural systems to adapt to climate change with perennial plants was assessed by Farquharson et al. (2013). Perennial plants have deeper rooting systems with improved access to soil moisture, making them better suited to warmer and drier climates. Climate data were generated using Global Circulation Models (GCMs) downscaled to specific locations and corrected for bias (Liu and Zuo 2012). The climate data were used to estimate growth and yield of grain crops, pastures, and an energy-tree crop using process models such as APSIM (McCown et al. (1996)) and GrassGro (Moore et al. (1997). Plant yield and production estimates and economic data (prices of inputs and commodities) were used in bio-economic models (MIDAS (Kingwell and Pannell 1987) and IMAGINE (Abadi and Cooper 2004)) to identify the most profitable land use and the cash flow of options available to growers.

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Farm level assessments of a novel drought tolerant forage: Tedera (Bituminaria bituminosa C.H. Stirt var. albomarginata)

Cited by 29 publications

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Climate change reduces the mitigation obtainable from sequestration in an Australian farming system

Climate change reduces the mitigation obtainable from sequestration in an Australian farming system

<i>Bituminaria basaltica</i> (Fabaceae), a new species from Italy

Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate change in southern Australia

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