Watch Gipps Dairy extension officer Karen Romano and Professor Kevin Smith to hear more and ‘Ask the researcher’ about future forages modelling and the implications for research and on-farm activities

• Modelling shows a substantial drop in profitability from a changing climate
• Current locations of breeding and testing sites for pastures are inadequate
• New forage species and traits will become more important over time
• A warmer, drier climate with more extreme weather events will adversely affect nutrition and persistence of current forage