Keep improving by tackling the weak links

Keep improving by tackling the weak links

Continuous improvement by identifying the weakest links Fran and Damien Lyons, of Basalt River Station. Continual improvement is all about picking the weakest link in the chain, putting a plan in place to improve it, then sticking to it according to grazier Fran...
Making genetic gains

Making genetic gains

Improve livestock productivity through herd genetic gains Burdekin graziers attended a Frontier Genetics field day at Greenvale in August to get the latest information on how to achieve genetic gains to improve overall productivity of livestock. Sire selection is the...
Burdekin Reef Water Quality report card

Burdekin Reef Water Quality report card

Burdekin Reef Water Quality Report Card shows welcome progress Burdekin graziers and sugarcane growers are making progress in improving the quality of water flowing to the Great Barrier Reef, according to the recent release of the Reef Water Quality Report Card...

Jaeda hit the ground running

Jaeda hit the ground running in her new role On-Country Project Officer Jaeda Lenoy works primarily with the Landholders Driving Change project team, funded by the Queensland Government’s Queensland Reef Water Quality Program, working mainly on Birriah Country....
Piles deployed in Station Creek

Piles deployed in Station Creek

Piles to catch sediment in Station Creek Timber pile fields slow down water to better protect eroding, or at-risk stream banks. They consist of multiple rows of timber piles, of a specified diameter, driven into the streambed and bank. Timber pile fields also trap...

Edu-tourism

Early foray into edu-tourism is LOOKING UP NQ Dry Tropics Project Officer JJ Walker with Texas A&M University professor Gerard Kyle at Magnetic Island. EXPLAINING to a group of increasingly wide-eyed American university students what will and won’t kill them...