Reduced internal parasite problems as shrub fodder is browsed above pasture that harbours dung-borne worm eggs. Better nutrition during Australia's annual summer drought means improved wool quality and cattle weight gains instead of the losses which occur on poor quality dry feed. Importantly, tagasaste has not become a weed outside farm cultivation since being introduced to Australia in 1879. It can become naturalised in virgin bushland, but only rarely does it form exclusive thickets. The seedlings are relished by marsupials.
Opossums often kill tagasaste in the bush by constantly eating tender regrowth.
Eastern states of Australia are now following this revolution as soil salinity and soil acidity problems make browse shrubs a most sensible way to go in improving landcare. Street address is 359 Broadwater Road, Mansfield, Queensland 4122, Australia.