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Under the high grazing pressure treatments, land runoff, soil movement and pasture utilisation increased and perennial grass basal cover, ground cover, pasture yield and land condition decreased. 3P grass was the only landscape stability parameter not affected by high grazing pressure.
The maintenance of the 3P grass density and some basal cover enabled landscape stability to improve rapidly in the 1998-99 year when there was low pasture utilisation and good rainfall. This demonstrates one of the benefits of maintenance of land in “A” condition. The stability and resilience of the land is maintained, together with the ability to respond to rain and produce useful forage.