Erosion control always topical Erosion control expert Darryl Hill constructs a whoa boy on Springview Station during the workshop. Inset: Payne's Lagoon grazier Don Wincen uses a dumpy level during the workshop ...
Burdekin cane farmers are being urged to take part in a trial that will use Barramundi as a weapon in the fight against invasive Tilapia. Tilapia have colonised farm recycling pits across the Lower Burdekin causing erosion, however, recent evidence from the Mackay...
Irwin's turtle, yellow-headed snapping turtle (Elseya irwini)What do they look like? Irwin’s Turtle is a medium-sized snapping turtle, whose shell can be up to 30 cm long. It has a short neck and pale, white-pinkish head, the facial colouring making it look as though...
Barry Collett’s unique position as owner operator of an earthworks business, and manager of Todsure, the family business, meant he could take advantage of his experience to undertake the remediation works and subsequent maintenance works.
Running a profitable business while ensuring sufficient end of dry season ground cover has been at the core of Dino and Norma Penna’s grazing enterprise since moving to Kangaroo Hills, south west of Ingham, in 1998.
An important tenet of NQ Dry Tropics’ extension program — collaboration with key stakeholders, including landholders, to work towards solutions for NRM outcomes. It leads to deeper insights, fresher perspectives and delivers results.
The Stomping out Sediment in the Burdekin project took an unconventional approach to gully management, testing and evaluating the use of livestock as a tool to remediate gullies, as well as implementing more conventional gully remediation approaches.
A highly-successful 12-month project supporting Indigenous jobs and training while protecting the Reef has been extended until June 2022.
More than 600 feral animal pests have been culled from cattle properties north of the Basalt Wall near Charters Towers. Pigs, deer and feral horses accounted for most of the animals removed from properties during pest management campaigns across two cluster groups.
Cane farmer Robert Boccalatte is fed up with the damage caused by feral pigs on his property at Saltwater Creek.
“In a bad year pigs will eat between 500kg to a tonne of cane, but that’s not the only problem,” Mr Boccalatte said.