Richard Eckard

Use of oaten hay to support sustainable development of dairy production

2021 - 2025

Farm Forestry Research Project – Maximising co-benefits from trees on grazing properties in eastern Australia

2021 - 2024

Ground Source Systems Yanderra Shallow Geothermal-Solar Systems Demonstration for the Poultry Industry

2022 - 2024

NEXUS project: exploring profitable, sustainable livestock businesses in an increasingly variable climate

2020 - 2023

CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION

2018 - 2023

Expanding investment in environmentally-focused agricultural practices

2022 - 2023

A Common Approach to Sector-Level GHG Accounting for Australian Agriculture

2022 - 2023

Analysis of dairy greenhouse gas emission cost and mitigation strategies

2021 - 2023

Livestock Productivity Program

2021 - 2022

Review of Aus Canola Country Report

2022 - 2022

Value-adding greenhouse gas implications to existing ACIAR and NZ MFAT livestock projects

2021 - 2022

Agriculture, Land and Farm Management

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Project Types

25

Research Grant

15

Research Contracts

1

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying 12 of 12 scholarly works from 2019 for Richard Eckard.

Current and future direction of nitrogen fertiliser use in Australian grazing systems

RP Rawnsley, AP Smith, KM Christie, MT Harrison, RJ Eckard

Journal article | 2019 | Crop and Pasture Science

The nitrogen (N) nutrition of dairy pasture systems in southern Australia has changed from almost total dependence on legumes in t..

Managing the nitrogen status of subtropical dairy pastures for production, efficiency and profit

AP Smith, P Beale, BJ Fulkerson, RJ Eckard

Journal article | 2019 | Agricultural Systems

Effect of combining wheat grain with nitrate, fat or 3-nitrooxypropanol on in vitro methane production

PS Alvarez-Hess, PJ Moate, SRO Williams, JL Jacobs, KA Beauchemin, MC Hannah, Z Durmic, RJ Eckard

Journal article | 2019 | Animal Feed Science and Technology

Growth and Physiological Responses of Temperate Pasture Species to Consecutive Heat and Drought Stresses

Ruchika S Perera, Brendan R Cullen, Richard J Eckard

Journal article | 2019 | Plants

Heat and drought are two major limiting factors for perennial pasture production in south eastern Australia. Although previous stu..

The effect of diet of the donor cows on in vitro measurements of methane production from wheat and corn incubated in various forage-to-grain ratios

Pablo S Alvarez-Hess, Peter J Moate, S Richard O Williams, Joe L Jacobs, Karen A Beauchemin, Zoey Durmic, Murray C Hannah, Richard J Eckard

Journal article | 2019 | JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

BACKGROUND: Supplementation of ruminant diets with wheat and corn grains influences ruminal fermentation. In vitro fermentation is..

Effect of dietary fat supplementation on methane emissions from dairy cows fed wheat or corn

PS Alvarez-Hess, SRO Williams, JL Jacobs, MC Hannah, KA Beauchemin, RJ Eckard, WJ Wales, GL Morris, PJ Moate

Journal article | 2019 | JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Diets that contain high proportions of either wheat or supplementary fat have been individually reported to reduce enteric methane..

A partial life cycle assessment of the greenhouse gas mitigation potential of feeding 3-nitrooxypropanol and nitrate to cattle

Pablo S Alvarez-Hess, Shannan M Little, Peter J Moate, Joe L Jacobs, Karen A Beauchemin, Richard J Eckard

Journal article | 2019 | AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Agricultural industries are faced with the challenge to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as nitrous oxide (N2..

Comparison of five methods for the estimation of methane production from vented in vitro systems

Pablo S Alvarez Hess, Richard J Eckard, Joe L Jacobs, Murray C Hannah, Peter J Moate

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

BACKGROUND There are several methods for estimating methane production (MP) from feedstuffs in vented in vitro systems. One method..

Modified approach to estimating daily methane emissions of dairy cows by measuring filtered eructations during milking

Matt J Bell, Phil Garnsworthy, Dimitris Mallis, Richard Eckard, Peter Moate, Tianhai Yan

Journal article | 2019 | LANDBAUFORSCHUNG

The aim of this study was to compare metrics for quantifying enteric methane (CH4) emissions from individual cows during milking u..

Climate Ready Riverina – Adapting agriculture to reduce the impacts of climate change

Natalie Doran-Browne, Jessica Hill, Richard Eckard

Conference Proceedings | 2019

Advancement of winegrape maturity continuing for winegrowing regions in Australia with variable evidence of compression of the harvest period

Chelsea Jarvis, Chelsea JARVIS, R Darbyshire, I Goodwin, EWR Barlow, R Eckard

Journal article | 2019 | Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research

Background and Aims Grapevine phenology is closely linked with growing season temperature. Rising temperature related to anthropog..

Accounting for and reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Fiji

Natalie Doran-Browne, Richard Eckard, Max Migliorati, Rowena Maguire, Rebecca Colvin, Elaine Mitchell, Mark Howden, Peter Grace

Conference Proceedings | 2019

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Keyword Analysis

Livestock Raising

Mitigation of Climate Change

Animal Production

Pasture, Browse and Fodder Crops

Crop and Pasture Production

Environmental Management

Other Environmental Sciences

Adaptation To Climate Change

Environmentally Sustainable Animal Production

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles from 10 for Richard Eckard.

US scheme used by Australian farmers reveals the dangers of trading soil carbon to tackle climate change

Aaron Simmons, Annette Cowie, Brian Wilson, Mark Farrell, Matthew Tom Harrison, Peter Grace, Richard Eckard, Vanessa Wong, Warwick Badgery

Soil carbon is in the spotlight in Australia. A key plank in the Morrison government’s technology-led emissions reduction policy, it involv..

June 24, 2021

Australia's farmers want more climate action – and they’re starting in their own (huge) backyards

Richard Eckard

The National Farmer’s Federation says Australia needs a tougher policy on climate, today calling on the Morrison government to commit to an..

August 20, 2020

What does climate mean for wine?

Chelsea Jarvis, Richard Eckard, Snow Barlow

Common wisdom suggests white wine for warmer days and red for cool days, but how climate and weather are connected with grape and wine qual..

May 9, 2019

pursuit Article

Extreme weather: Why the impact will be felt more widely

Peter Doherty AC, Grant Blashki, Richard Eckard, Ann-Maree Graham, Chris Jensen, Kevin Fergusson, Trent Penman

Extreme is the new normal when it comes to weather, with devastation caused by floods, fires and cyclones filling our news feeds all too fr..

April 11, 2017

pursuit Article

Severe heatwaves show the need to adapt livestock management for climate

Elisabeth Vogel, Christin Meyer, Richard Eckard

Climate change and extreme weather events are already impacting our food, from meat and vegetables, right through to wine. In our series on..

February 27, 2017

Why politics today cannot give us the heroes we need

Mark Triffitt

Churchill, Roosevelt (FDR and Eleanor), JFK and Thatcher - depending on your politics, they’re all political heroes. We place them on a ped..

August 21, 2015

pursuit Article

It's not enough to go vegetarian to fight climate change

Richard Eckard

Could our meat-loving Western diets push climate change over the edge? That was the message of a recent report from UK think tank Chatham H..

February 23, 2015

Reducing methane from dairy cows: it's all in the oil

Richard Eckard

The Carbon Farming Initiative is about to provide incentives for dairy farmers to reduce emissions from their milking cows. Emissions will ..

March 22, 2013

The three Ps of climate change and agriculture

Richard Eckard

Opinions on anthropogenic climate change vary greatly across society, and it appears that Australia’s farmers remain largely sceptical abou..

July 4, 2012

Could your diet save the planet?

Richard Eckard

By now most of us have read articles suggesting we “eat less red meat and save the planet”. Some may also have heard statements by the ch..

November 1, 2011