I want to have a neat and tidy farm that is easy to manage. I want to minimise soil erosion. I want to be able to make a living and to pass the farm down to the next generation in the same or better condition. I guess you could call it farming with a conscience. Four year old seedlings planted into an area of remnant bush.
Perennial grasses appear to have potential in agriculture on valley flats with shallow watertables.
However, these plants have become invasive weeds in other places. There is a strong concern that these plants will damage nature conservation values in remnants and reserves and may also affect other values. Acknowledgments Tim Heffernan can be contacted at 'Lomond Park', Post Office, Wickepin 6370. This case study was developed with funding from the National Landcare Program project 'Revegetation strategies for Land Conservation Districts of the Western Australian wheatbelt'. The author would like to thank David Bicknell, Agriculture Western Australia, Narrogin, and Tess Casson, Great Southern Agricultural Research Institute, Katanning.