Vanessa Smolders, Sustainable Agriculture Team Leader from Healthy Land & Water, the Natural Resource Management group that operates in South East Queensland is a huge advocate of FutureBeef resources.
“Our sustainable grazing landholder audience is approximately 500 people, Vanessa says. We have various projects working with landholders both 1-on-1 and through workshops, demonstrations and field days. When we do any property visits we use FutureBeef (and LongPaddock) to prepare maps and land type information for landholders”.
The Healthy Land & Water project teams visit approximately 150 properties each year. The typical property visit involves taking out five different types of FORAGE reports and all of the relevant land type sheets (printed from the FutureBeef website) for their property.
“We also promote the FutureBeef resources in all of our workshops. For example, when we’re delivering a workshop on grazing land management, we direct producers to where they can find their land type information. Our most accessed and printed resource on FutureBeef is the Moreton land type description for Blue Gum on Alluvial Plains,” says Vanessa.
The popular Property Management Planning (PMP) workshop series are attended by a total of approximately 60 landholders each year. Every single PMP workshop attendee gets a similar suite of resources normally taken out on an individual property visit. As an organisation that means Healthy Land & Water are linking at least 210 landholders each year with resources they have sourced from the FutureBeef website as part of their extension journey.
Healthy Land & Water also share and promote FutureBeef articles and events relevant to landholders in South East Queensland via their Sustainable Agriculture newsletter.
“We couldn’t hope for a better collaborator in terms of utilising FutureBeef resources to their full potential”, says Kate Brown DPI Beef Extension Officer.
The former ‘Moreton’ and ‘Southeast’ GLM land type regions have been combined and updated into the ‘South East Queensland’ GLM region. All updated descriptions and mapping are now available on the FutureBeef website.
