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Projects and partnerships improving and maintaining the quality of grazing land.
NQ Dry Tropics partners with graziers to improve enterprise performance, landscape health, and resilience.
We support landholders to implement practices that boost their sustainability and profitability, at the same time helping keep soil on the land, maximising pasture cover, and protecting waterways.
Our field officers work across the 134,000 km² Burdekin Dry Tropics region, delivering on-ground extension, workshops, and networking opportunities to help producers share knowledge as well as learn and adapt.
By collaborating with scientists, industry leaders, and holistic management experts, we deliver up-to-date science and practical guidance directly to landholders.
We connect landholders with co-investment opportunities and incentives to accelerate practice change.
Our grazing team can help:
Sustainable grazing focuses on protecting the key natural resources of soil and vegetation, which in turn protects biodiversity and water quality values in the grazing landscape. These assets are key to long term profitability and sustainability of the region’s grazing enterprises.
This approach to livestock management ensures grazing operations remain productive while preserving the land’s natural resources for future generations using tools like forage budgeting, pasture monitoring, holistic property planning and tailored grazing management.
By adopting sustainable grazing techniques, graziers can improve soil health, enhance water quality, and maintain biodiversity, all while securing long-term profitability.
Mapping helps diagnose operational problems and plan infrastructure for the future.
NQ Dry Tropics’ Grazing Team has developed a very popular one or two-day Maps & Apps workshop where even complete novices leave with a solid grasp of how to use free online tools like Queensland Globe, Avenza and FORAGE.
Those free tools give graziers the power to plan property improvements taking into account managing grazing pressure.
Mapping can help graziers to enhance soil fertility, improve water retention, and support biodiversity conservation on their properties.
By integrating advanced mapping technologies such as satellite imagery, GPS tracking, and geographic information systems (GIS), graziers can make data-driven decisions that enhance long-term resource sustainability.
