Grazing of high oestrogen pastures can cause infertility and also an increase in ewe mortality, uterine prolapse, difficult births and post-natal lamb mortality. University of WA and MLA are jointly funding a project to map the occurrence of high-oestrogen subterranean clover cultivars. A free service to measure the oestrogen levels in sub-clover pastures will be offered to Australian farmers in 2019 through a research project led by Dr Kevin Foster from UWA's School of Agriculture.
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