Unlocking Carbon: your essential guide for understanding the carbon landscape
Carbon and climate change can be overwhelming but talking about it shouldn’t be. Climate, drought and natural disasters has us reimagining our relationship with carbon, but farmers have a bigger […]
NT Department of Agriculture at the International Rangeland Congress!
Delegates from over 50 countries flocked to Adelaide, South Australia for The XII International Rangeland Congress (IRC) which took place from June 2-6 2025. “Working Together for Our Global Rangelands […]
Dedicated to beef research: Spyglass and Brian Pastures are ‘research ready’
Beef research facilities play an important role in taking scientific concepts and lab proven hypotheses into the practical world, answering questions such as: ‘How does it stack up in the […]
Updated rainfall posters now available
The well-known Long Paddock website posters illustrating Australia’s historical rainfall and pasture growth variability have been updated to March 2025 and are now available. The suite of posters include Annual […]
Presentations from the 2025 International Rangeland Congress
The 2025 International Rangeland Congress provided a great opportunity for a number of Department of Primary Industries staff to present their research findings. Here are recordings of some of their […]
Indonesian opportunities are endless: NT cattleman
Written by Linda Mantova, Australian Brahman Breeders Association Opportunities are endless for Australian Brahman producers exporting live cattle to Indonesia, according to Northern Territory cattleman, Brad Inglis. Operating Sturt Plains […]
Weeds or feed? Breathing new life into unproductive pastures
As many graziers across Queensland know, paddocks that once performed well don’t always stay that way. Two new trials recently initiated by the Department of Primary Industries at Brian Pastures […]
QLD tour of NSW and SA pasture research programs
The Queensland Pasture Resilience Program team recently visited our counterparts in New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia (SA) to explore pasture research projects tackling key challenges like pasture dieback, […]
Spreading the word across north Australia – interstate pastoral delegations visit north Qld to see how we do legumes
The Queensland Pasture Resilience Program‘s (QPRP) northern team recently hosted two groups of pastoralists and state government officials from Western Australia (WA) interested in how pasture legumes have been adopted […]
Give it a rest — how spelling brings country back to life
If you’re managing tired paddocks and wondering how to bring them back to life, research from the long-running Wambiana grazing trial offers some clear answers. It’s not high-tech or expensive […]