Integrated approach to weed management

LDC’s grazing land management activity area continues supporting the BBB community to develop a region-wide integrated approach to weed management to help improve healthy and productive landscapes.

Support will continue to be offered to graziers for weed and land management, and a field day is also being planned which includes a bus trip to multiple sites to see how graziers are tackling woody weed infestations. 

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From the outset of LDC, six years ago, landholders identified weed management as a barrier and challenge to improving land condition on their properties.

Read here about how LDC developed a region-wide integrated approach to weed management.

It was also recognised that weed management and land management needed to be addressed jointly. Good land management is critical to reducing the incidence and the impact of weeds. 

The LDC project was able to respond to land managers concerns by teaming up with specialists to offer a suite of integrated hands-on and practical activities to build knowledge and skills to help them better understand how to reduce weed problems, and to improve desirable pastures to help provide weed control.

Through tailored activities, barriers to weed management are being reduced and there is evidence of improved practices across the catchment that will lead to longer-term benefits for water quality.

• Case studies on the right illustrate how graziers in the BBB are tackling weeds.

Coordinated approach in Upper Burdekin

NQ Dry Tropics is also working with landholders in Upper Burdekin to coordinate activities to improve the condition of the frontage country and the riparian zone, including weed, pest and grazing management initiatives.

This project was funded through the Queensland Natural Resource Investment Program, and are being monitored.

This video explains it in more detail.