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Title: | Preventing weed spread: a survey of lifestyle and commercial landholders about 'Nassella trichotoma' in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia | Contributor(s): | Ruttledge, Annie (author); Whalley, Ralph D (author) ; Reeve, Ian (author); Backhouse, David (author) ; Sindel, Brian M (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | DOI: | 10.1071/RJ15010 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17983 | Abstract: | 'Nassella trichotoma' (Nees) Hack. ex Arechav. (common name, serrated tussock) occupies large areas of south-eastern Australia and has considerable scope for expansion in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. This highly invasive grass reduces pasture productivity and has the potential to severely affect the region's economy by decreasing the livestock carrying capacity of grazing land. Other potential consequences of this invasion include increased fuel loads and displacement of native plants, thereby threatening biodiversity. Rural property owners in the Northern Tablelands were sent a mail questionnaire that examined use of measures to prevent new outbreaks of the weed. The questionnaire was sent to professional farmers as well as lifestyle farmers (owners of rural residential blocks and hobby farms) and 271 responses were obtained (a response rate of 18%). Key findings were respondents' limited capacity to detect 'N. trichotoma', and low adoption of precautions to control seed spread by livestock, vehicles and machinery. This was particularly the case among lifestyle farmers. There have been considerable recent changes to biosecurity governance arrangements in New South Wales, and now is an ideal time for regulators and information providers to consider how to foster regional communities' engagement in biosecurity, including the adoption of measures that have the capacity to curtail the spread of 'N. trichotoma'. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The Rangeland Journal, 37(4), p. 409-423 | Publisher: | CSIRO Publishing | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1834-7541 1036-9872 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 070308 Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds) | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 300409 Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 830403 Native and Residual Pastures 830406 Sown Pastures (excl. Lucerne) |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 100503 Native and residual pastures 100505 Sown pastures (excl. lucerne) |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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