Drought

These fact sheets, templates and how-to guides have been developed to help producers develop their Farm Business Resilience Plans. 

Successful scrub feeding is not limited to the more palatable and nutritious species, especially during dry periods. Scrub with a higher fibre content, and lower nutritive value, can…
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Planning for drought or drought recovery will require you to make some tough and difficult decisions around feeding and caring for your livestock and how to best manage…
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This factsheet compares the profitability of different steer turnoff ages and outlines the key factors in determining optimum age of turnoff in Northern Gulf beef production systems. As…
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The Lasker’s run a self-replacing cattle breeding operation comprised of a Santa Gertrudis based herd. Ben and Bindy credit attending a Hold ‘Em or Fold ‘Em – Risk Based Decision Making and Resilience workshop in Surat, amongst other learning opportunities, for helping them change their management practices during tough, ongoing drought conditions. Read the Lasker’s story.

Help after natural disasters is usually divided into two types: Immediate relief (first response): search and rescue, shelter, food rations etc. Recovery assistance (which may be individual, or…
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New drought assistance is available for Queensland primary producers. This new drought assistance package is the biggest reform to drought assistance in generations. In this webinar recording, join…
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Case studies of changes made by landholders as part of the GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience program and the resulting benefits.

The GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience program funded many events across Queensland. Read the event summaries here.

The GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience project has hosted many webinars covering everything from early weaning to understanding weather forecasts, these include: A practical conversation on pasture dieback with…
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