Healing gullies

Healing gullies

Get those small problem gullies repaired for FREE! NQ Dry Tropics’ Healing Country team can help landholders tackle small-scale erosion before it develops into a bigger problem. The team uses non-mechanical methods where fragile soils mean machines aren’t the best...
Virtual fencing

Virtual fencing

Trialling technology that helps build grazing drought resilience NQ Dry Tropics has been awarded a Future Drought Fund grant to conduct a five-year trial into testing the efficacy of drought resilient grazing strategies in the Burdekin region. The Virtually Fence Free...
Kickstart GRASS

Kickstart GRASS

GRASS helps producers tackle areas of poor land condition The Grazing Resilience and Sustainable Solutions (GRASS) program is aimed at helping beef producers improve areas of poor or degraded land condition and to develop and implement a tailor-made action plan for...
LDC in a nutshell

LDC in a nutshell

The earth’s been moved, but which treatments were best? Between 2017-2020, the Burdekin Major Integrated Project (Landholders Driving Change) completed 25 gully remediation projects, five large-scale and 20 small-scale sites. Collectively, these gully works...
Gully sweet spot

Gully sweet spot

It’s about keeping your topsoil without bankrupting the business Sick and tired of seeing topsoil disappear down gullies and creeping gully heads gobble up productive land, graziers have been working hard to fix them.  The trick is finding the sweet spot — low...
Monitoring works

Monitoring works

Quantifying the effectiveness of gully remediation on water quality CSIRO produces an annual report to present the monitoring results for control and treatment gully rehabilitation projects on four properties in the BBB catchment area, on behalf of the Landholders...