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A new video on land management will help landholders identify and improve land in poor or degraded condition, through the Grazing Resilience and Sustainable Solutions (GRASS) program. Department…
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Researchers at the University of Queensland are investigating how fire and grazing can be managed to optimise nitrogen inputs by biocrusts to improve the productivity of grazing lands…
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The Repronomics II Project is up and running in the Northern Territory (NT) with many collaborators working to identify genomic indicators of fertility, increase the size of the…
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There were a number of webinars held in June. Here are the links to a few of the recordings. Managing erosion on floodplains presented by Southern Gulf NRM…
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Old Man Plains Research Station (OMP) turns off steers each year as part of the Quality Graze research project. This project aims to identify optimal grazing systems that…
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Graziers in the Burdekin will be the first required to meet the Queensland Government’s new minimum practice agricultural standards for grazing which start on 1 December 2020. Under…
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Damage to on-farm infrastructure and crops during the North and Far North Queensland Monsoon Trough more than a year ago is still evident across much of the state’s…
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The Long Paddock’s well known series of rainfall and pasture growth posters have been updated for 2020. Four posters make up the series: the original Australia’s Variable Rainfall;…
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Apart from some extra planning and approvals for travel, little has changed for the beef extension team based in Mackay in recent times. Over the last two months…
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The 2020 MLA Phosphorus Challenge ran in April and May across North West Queensland to test for phosphorus (P) deficiency. Beef extension staff from the Queensland Department of…
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