Dec 7, 2022 | DCF, Featured, News
IS DIESEL BECOMING A THING OF THE PAST? For those of you who, like us, spend huge amounts of time and money on spraying weeds, you will be well aware of the issues, costs and benefits of using diesel when basal bark spraying chemicals onto weeds. The increased cost...
Dec 7, 2022 | Featured, News, Videos
THORNVILLE QUANDARY The Delahunty family, in Queensland’s Muttaburra Region, have done an impressive job tackling the spread of Prickly Acacia – a major threat to native rangelands. But after five years, Peter and Mark Delahunty found their native Mitchell Grass...
Feb 15, 2022 | Featured, News
THE TECH SAVY DESERT RAT “Give a man an iPad and you amuse him for a day. Teach a man to use an iPad and you give him work for a lifetime” – ancient DCQ proverb. DCQ Field Supervisor, Peter Spence, is one of those blokes who decided to keep up with the ‘modern...
May 20, 2021 | Featured, Landcare, News, Resources, Videos
SUCCESS IN THE MAKING We’re fortunate in our region to have landholders willing to try things, and it’s even more wonderful when their endeavours start to show results. The journey for John Wearing as he’s trialled seeding of Mitchell grass has been an interesting...
Jan 18, 2021 | Featured, News, Videos
SEEDY BUSINESS Sometimes, even mother nature needs a hand. Having perfected cost-effective control of invasive Prickly Acacia, we have moved on to pasture seeding to “turbo-charge” the recovery of native grasses decimated by this weed. In this video, DCQ...