NASSELLA IN N.S.W.
Million Acres Affected Nassella tussock is considered to be lowering the carrying capacity of more than a million acres in the tablelands division of New South Wales, according to the Australian farming journal, the “Pastoral Review and Graziers’ Record.” On arable and semi-arable country, which can be worked with implements to prepare a seed bed, a perennial grass such as Phalaris tuberosa can be mixed with white and subterranean clovers in the seed mixture sown. Annual grasses do not provide the year-long competition needed to control the nassella.
Aerial spreading of a superphosphate - subterranean clover mixture has achieved some success on non-arable land but does not prevent reinfestation and regeneration of the tussock as this clover is an annual. Sown areas must be lightly stocked to ensure a dense cover of sown species at all times, the article says.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 7
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