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The risk of an exotic pest or disease entering Australia is always present. The potential repercussions of an outbreak include; transport restrictions, costs of animal treatment or culling,…
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Storms are regular in Australia and can range in intensity from minor thunderstorms to category 5 cyclones. Bushfires are caused by lightning and flash flooding is a result…
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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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Leaky weirs are a low-cost water slowing structure with an expected high return on investment that can be formed using a mix of previously pushed mulga, or local stone. See how leaky weirs lifted land condition on the floodplains near Thargomindah.
AL land types are mapped regional ecosystems not suitable for grazing. References Gilbert, M.A., Moody, P.W. and Shaw, K. A. Fertility assessment of soils of the Mount Garnet…
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In 1995, near Wandoan, Queensland, two pasture paddocks were sown side-by-side: one sown with buffel grass and desmanthus legume and the other sown with buffel grass only. Pasture…
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With decades of experience in pasture improvement, the Anderson family near Theodore have tried and tested a number of tropical legumes including leucaena, desmanthus, stylos and more. In…
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Mike and Judy Johnson sowed leucaena and desmanthus in cultivated strips in a buffel grass paddock near Dulacca in 2008. Leucaena grew well initially, has persisted in some…
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Restock, replant and repair – what’s next in North Queensland’s flood recovery assistance, a recorded webinar presented by QRIDA.