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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...

BRICKWORK

Landholders from Muttaburra to Windorah, Boulia and Urandangi have been working on improving degraded country, and stopping erosion. With workshops and demonstrations funded by the Australia Government’s National Landcare, and Sustainable Agriculture Programs the...

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...

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 one, and you can see some...