by IMIT | Dec 10, 2015 | Information
More than 20 Burdekin sugarcane farmers participated in a field walk last week on Willy Lucas’ Osbourne cane farm, near Home Hill, to inspect an NQ Dry Tropics low-cost furrow irrigation automation trial. Affordable automation in furrow irrigation can deliver multiple...
by IMIT | Dec 4, 2015 | Information
Fish Kills: What are they and how do we stop them? It’s that time of year again! No, not the holiday season – it’s fish kill season. With summer rapidly approaching, dead fish have already been found in the Burdekin’s local rivers, creeks and lakes,...
by IMIT | Dec 3, 2015 | Information
Local farmers take inspiration from abroad to improve soil health Two recent soil events in Ayr attracted more than thirty Burdekin cane farmers, who learnt how increasing plant biodiversity can improve soil health and could help reduce yield decline. NQ Dry Tropics...
by IMIT | Nov 20, 2015 | Community Event
NQ Dry Tropics will hold Holistic Management information sessions in Charters Towers and Bowen, to cater for a surge of interest about the practice among Burdekin graziers. The events will be held from 6.30pm to 8.30pm at the Bowen Research Station on Monday 7...
by IMIT | Nov 20, 2015 | Information, Wetlands
Recent results from a trial undertaken at Sheepstation Creek in Brandon indicate that planting trees along river banks can help increase fish stocks. In 2012, NQ Dry Tropics carried out a project on a property owned by John and Frank Gorizia, to remove weeds from half...
