Pasture improvement measured in brix a boost to coastal beef production

By Jamie Brown
Updated May 10 2019 - 8:54am, first published 8:00am
Durness Station manager Troy Wilton measures sugar levels, or brix, in the juice of Kikuyu grass using a simple scope more familiar to horticulturalists than graziers. The use of the tool is a great way to monitor improvements.
Durness Station manager Troy Wilton measures sugar levels, or brix, in the juice of Kikuyu grass using a simple scope more familiar to horticulturalists than graziers. The use of the tool is a great way to monitor improvements.

Durness Station, at Teagardens north of Port Stephens, has experienced an increase in beef kilograms off its paddocks by an order of 40kg per head over the past 10 years thanks to sweet grasses, improved through rotation and nutrition.

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