NQ Dry Tropics has streamlined its project management and Paddock to Reef data, adopting Esri technology to complement its current web-based software applications to manage natural resource management projects. The Esri Collector App enables field staff and NQ Dry...

Initial gully remediation efforts on a grazing property is already paying dividends for a Collinsville landholder. Shane Watts, of Sonoma Station, had barely finished constructing four diversion banks on a 110 hectare catchment hotspot, when the heavens opened and...

The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) and NQ Dry Tropics grazing teams have met to discuss how best to provide extension and formal training to help improve grazing business resilience in the Burdekin region. The workshop aimed to streamline training and...

Burdekin graziers profit from Grazing Best Management Practices program Increasing international demand for high-quality beef means that the northern Australian beef industry can - and should have - a bright future. That’s the view of beef producer Simone Howard, of...

The 2018 Project Catalyst Forum has attracted more than 150 sugar cane growers from partner regions of the Wet Tropics, Burdekin and Mackay Whitsunday, to network with researchers, program partners and industry groups, and share knowledge and new ideas. The two-day...

As the beef industry comes under increased external scrutiny from customers and regulators to demonstrate environmental compliance, graziers in North Queensland are responding, using spatial information to improve on-farm production outcomes and environmental...

Australian agriculture is a success story that often goes untold - every year more than 85,000 farming businesses actively care for close to 50 per cent of Australia’s land mass, through meat, food, fibre or crop production. Tuesday, November 21 is National...

Handling livestock with man’s best friend can pay dividends for graziers With the correct handling, livestock  will become cooperative which in turn leads to a safer working environment for the livestock and the people handling them. Cooperative animals lead to...

Low stress stockhandling holds key to northern beef profitability Sustainability is not a destination - it’s a continuous journey being carried out by each generation of graziers responsible for raising and supplying beef across the world. That’s why Australia’s...

Determined to embrace positive management practice change, Kale and Karin Robinson, of Hillsborough Station, are working to improve pasture on their Ravenswood grazing property to achieve a sustainable and profitable enterprise. Since taking over the property two...

Burdekin sugar cane growers are finding innovative ways to improve water quality on the Great Barrier Reef by minimising water run-off from their properties. The Burdekin is the engine room of Queensland’s sugar industry, producing between 8-9 million tonnes of sugar...

Twenty-one local graziers will be recognised for setting the benchmark for industry this month when they receive their Grazing BMP accredited producer certificates at a gala dinner held in Townsville. The event marks the largest number of producers to be presented...

A recent NQ Dry Tropics event taught 10 graziers from seven properties across North Queensland how to conduct pregnancy tests – a  critical skill to help them better manage their herds and pastures. The Griffiths family, at Allandale Station, 60km west of Charters...

Graziers take in best practices at Charters Towers Building upon the success of the inaugural  Women in Grazing Bus Tour held in the Bowen/Collinsville area last year, this year’s event took nearly 70 forward-thinking landholders and industry representatives on a...

Dramatic before and after photos demonstrate how a severely eroded gully has been transformed within two years thanks to an ultra high-density grazing technique. The gully, on Barry and Leanne O’Sullivan’s 23,000ha Glenalpine grazing property near Bowen, is now barely...

A recent NQ Dry Tropics workshop in Charters Towers highlighted the importance of graziers keeping accurate and detailed financial and stock records to plan for a profitable future. Across the two-day event, 16 graziers from 9 enterprises learned from leading business...

Graziers learn from each other to improve water management “Drought was a great educator, it taught us that we had to change if we were to survive”, said Baralaba producer Ross McLean at a recent NQ Dry Tropics Healthy Landscapes Field Day held at Mt Coolon. Thirty...

Low-stress stock handling school supports cattle welfare Nearly 30 graziers attended NQ Dry Tropics’ recent two-day Low Stress Stock Handling school, with leading educator and cattleman Jim Lindsay. The school took place at the Burnett family’s Mt Douglas Station via...

Burdekin growers successfully bid for $2.84 million to improve reef water quality Burdekin sugar cane farmers have secured $2.84 million in Australian Government funding to reduce their surplus nitrogen levels and help  improve water quality on the Great Barrier Reef....

How innovative farming techniques are saving farmers time, money and waste Some of North Queensland’s most forward-thinking land managers will celebrate agricultural innovation, and share knowledge on a cross-regional bus tour from 12-14 April 2016. The Innovation in...

Burdekin cane growers aim to maintain yield while reducing nitrogen Using enhanced efficiency fertilisers could maintain cane and sugar yields while reducing the need for nitrogen inputs, according to early results from an NQ Dry Tropics trial....

Learning about Holistic Management has led to the Murphy family dramatically changing their cattle operations  at Tabletop Station, Collinsville. Holistic Management is a goal-driven management and decision-making process that considers how everything is...

When her parents Tom and Karen first suggested consolidating their six breeding herds into a single mob of 2500 cows, grazier Nikki Murphy knew it wouldn’t be a simple task. “I expected it to be a bit difficult to handle, but have since seen that there are lots of...

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...

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...

Burdekin sugarcane farmers can now submit expressions of interest to access up to $500,000 to undertake projects that reduce the level of nitrogen leaving their farms. The Australian Government has made up to $2.5 million available under the $140 million Reef Trust...