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Dual-purpose cropping – capitalising on potential grain crop grazing to enhance mixed-farming profitability

Lindsay W. Bell A , Matthew T. Harrison B and John A. Kirkegaard C
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A CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, PO Box 102, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia.

B Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 3523, Burnie, Tas. 7320, Australia.

C CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

Crop and Pasture Science 66(4) i-iv https://doi.org/10.1071/CPv66n4_FO
Published: 31 March 2015


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