Graziers

16 June 2010

Graziers are still confused about new Queensland Government reef protection legislation.

Over 500 landholders in our region attended information days throughout north Queensland explaining the new environment plans they need to do.

By September this year all graziers on properties over 2,000 hectares in the Burdekin Dry Tropics natural resource management region have to complete an Environment Risk Management Plan.

Property management plans act as business plans and are useful for keeping track of natural resources on properties, property design and management practices.

NQ Dry Tropics has been working with graziers from Bowen to Alpha and from Charters Towers to Greenvale for the last decade.

Get funding

Our Sustainable Agriculture program can help you fund improvements to your property that result in management practice changes. Our aim is to ensure the future of agriculture in the NQ Dry Tropics region is sustainable, this means reducing soil loss and improving water quality on properties.

We’ve helped graziers:

The Delbessie Agreement is a new arrangement of leasing land in Queensland.

Most grazing properties throughout the state are leased and the leases used to be renewed automatically every 30 years. The Queensland Government wants to reward good landholders by offering longer term leases to those who met environmental and social benchmarks.

In 2007, it signed an agreement with rural lobby group Agforce and the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society on a Hughenden property called Delbessie, cementing a new leasehold strategy.

NQ Dry Tropics has a history of working with land managers.