HOMER Simpson once described alcohol as the “cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems”. Were he not a nuclear power plant operator but a northern beef extension officer instead, he might have applied the same logic to phosphorus.
Phosphorus deficiency has long been a major problem for the northern Australian cattle industry, while an increasing body of research shows that phosphorus supplementation is a major solution.
More industry investment into the problem over the past decade has produced strong practical and economic evidence showing that feeding cattle phosphorus…
