Young guns

LDC’s Sheridan Callcott addresses an attentive crowd of young graziers, the BBB’s “Young Guns”. Beef industry young guns network in the BBB A young graziers event held at Strathalbyn Station, near Collinsville, has provided an educational and...

Staff training

Extension officers train to stay current in a changing world LDC project partners and landholders work really hard to trial and adopt land management practices to improve water quality flowing to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). In February, NQ Dry Tropics hosted a...

BBB incentives

Pregnancy-testing a cow at Mt Crompton with a ReproScan. NQ Dry Tropics looks for incentives to break down barriers. Incentives can help graziers trial new technology like this weed wiper at Eungella. For example … The types of management practices landholders...

NESP

LDC, NESP leaders present together at water quality conference The LDC project has collaborated with many partners during its implementation, providing an opportunity for the team to co-author conference papers and co-present the exciting work taking place in the...

Veg workshop

NQ Dry Tropics Senior Project Officer Cherry Emerick welcomes 20 landholders to the the Landholders Driving Change (LDC) Vegetation Management and Reef Protection Regulations workshop, Bowen River Hotel. Brett Scott, Flagstone, and Jim Hillier, Glenmore, at the...

Property visits

Big turnout for two days of property visits focusing on erosion and productivity Graziers visited two properties – Glenalpine and Strathalbyn – to review methods being trialed to remediate gullies and unproductive land, while improving pasture cover.  The...