Reef Rescue is part of the Australian Government’s $2.2 billion Caring for our Country initiative.
It aims to improve the quality of water running into the Great Barrier Reef.
NQ Dry Tropics makes funding available to horticulture and sugarcane farmers from Bowen to Crystal Creek and graziers in some catchments.
Within our region $6 to 8 million a year assists farmers and graziers with up to 50% of on ground improvements to individual properties for a greener future.
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.
Want to make a positive change in the way you farm, but can’t afford it? You can now.
Over $3 million dollars of Reef Rescue funding is available to farmers in north Queensland to make environmental improvements to their farm.
Round three of Reef Rescue is now open for sugar and horticulture farmers.
Reef Rescue has been hailed as the Australian Government’s most successful environmental initiative. The funding improves the quality of water going into the Great Barrier Reef.
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.
NQ Dry Tropics has helped many farmers across the horticulture, sugarcane and grazing industries to do things better. There have been two rounds of Reef Rescue funding with a third to come. Here is a sample of some of the improvements that have taken place on farms in the dry tropics. We look forward to bringing you more case studies throughout the year.
We hope you enjoy reading what some farmers have to say about the environment and the changes they’ve made.
There are a number of programs underway that are helping to make changes to the way farms are managed throughout the catchments adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef.
These initiatives are helping to reduce run-off from agricultural land into waterways that flow out into the marine environment.
Reef Rescue is part of the Australian Government’s $2.2 billion Caring for our Country initiative. 
