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Ayrshire Downs field day

A big thank you to our hosts, the Ogg family on Ayrshire Downs, who allowed us to hold a workshop on their property this week bringing together landholders, Government Officers from the Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water and DCQ to provide...

Camel herd monitoring

The data from the monitoring program for the DCQ camel heard is due to be released in April and so monitoring has recommenced now that it’s drying out a bit. The camels still have their tags tracking their movement and the heat map shows how they favour some areas of...

NEW GRASS SEEDING TRIAL FOR QUICK RECOVERY

We are in the midst of a great year weather-wise, with almost all areas of the DCQ region getting rain. This is very welcome as we recover from multiple years of drought, and so fast tracking the recovery of the rangelands has been a priority for a lot of people. The...

KEEPING UP WITH THE CAMELIDS

In August 2022 we fitted our camel herd with GPS ear tags to track their movements within their paddock of prickles and match this to ground based monitoring. This is a transfer of knowledge from our on-farm technology program and gives you a look at this type of...