grazing

Rangelands

Rangeland describes land that is expansive and that hasn’t experienced a large amount of change from European settlement.

Australia’s outback is mainly rangeland country – that’s 80 per cent of our landscape – while more than 90 per cent of the area within NQ Dry Tropics is rangeland that’s privately owned or leased for cattle grazing.

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Terrific response for reef money

5 March 2010

North Queensland agricultural property owners are improving the way they doing things.

One farmer is using the backyard method of composting to replace fertilisers; others are fencing off riverbanks, modifying machinery and finding unusual ways of killing weeds.

It’s all to improve the quality of water going into the Great Barrier Reef.

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Publications by Topic

Animals

Coastal Birds of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

Freshwater Fishes of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

What am I, Native Frog or Cane Toad?

Woodland Birds of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

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Publications by Title

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Annual Report 2009/2010

Annual Community Report 2008/2009

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Funding for Graziers

Water quality improvement grants

Applications are now open. Maximise your productivity with our water quality improvement grants. We can help you with funding to carry out gully and river fencing, fencing to land types and erosion control which not only improve your property but also benefit your wider community. Improving ground cover and keeping your soil on your property means your place will be more resilient during the dry season.

Funding is available for practices that reduce nutrients, sediments and pesticides leaving farms.

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Creating a Property 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.

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Grazing

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Delbessie Ready

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.

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Rivers to Reefs

The rivers and streams of the NQ Dry Tropics region drain a tremendous diversity of tropical landscapes: semi-arid dry lands, wooded grasslands, mountainous tropical rainforests, coastal plains and wetlands.

They then flow to the Great Barrier Reef.

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Land Management

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

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