SECTION 1: About your property

Thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey.   Our 5 year project Optimising Fodder Options in Mixed Farming Systems comes to an end in June.  To help us understand if you gained value from the project and to help us plan for the next five years we need to hear from you via this survey. 

As an incentive we are offering a fantastic prize to one lucky respondent on completion of the survey - a visit from agronomist Phil Barrett-Lennard to work with you to prepare a Forage Chain and an Implementation Plan to maximise groundcover and  fill feed gaps on your farm and a $2500 voucher to get you started with seed and/or seedlings.

The  information provided with be held in confidence, and no individual with be identified through the  reporting process, however we need your name to track your responses over time.

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* 1. Name

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* 2. What is the address of your property?

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* 3. What is your best contact phone number?

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* 4. How big is your property? (Ha)

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* 5. How many hectares are non arable?

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* 6. How many hectares are marginal?

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* 7. What ratio of cropping to livestock do you operate? (%)

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* 8. If you run livestock on your farm, please fill in below what sort and the number  you turn off annually.

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* 9. In an average season do you typically hand feed?

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* 10. Which crops do you grow?

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* 11. Please go ahead to question 12

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* 12. In the past five years (including this year), which of the following practices have you trialed/implemented on your property?

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* 13. How many hectares of land have you seen improvements on from implementing these strategies?

For the following six questions, please rate on a scale of 1-5 how important the element is for a sustainable agricultural system.

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* 14. Building soil carbon

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* 15. Maximising groundcover

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* 16. Supporting soil biological health

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* 17. Diversity of planting

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* 18. Incorporating livestock into the system

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* 19. Dung beetles

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* 20. What average percentage groundcover (green) would you estimate persists on your property during summer?

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* 21. What average percentage groundcover (brown) would you estimate persists on your property during summer?

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