• Sustainable Practices Case Study— Byrnestown graziers Richards and Twine
• North Burnett Landcare’s Friday Clubs
• Pasture Monitoring—it’s that time of the year again
• Healthy Habitats Case Study—Co-ordinated pig control

To view the latest issue of the burnett buzz click HERE!!

Practical tools and information to beef up your business

More Beef, more money

BeefUp Forum Biggenden

Where:Biggenden Show Hall

When: Friday, 1 June 2012, 11.30am – 6.30pm, (BBQ tea to follow)

Cost: $20/business

To view Biggenden BeefUp flier click  HERE!!

BeefUp Forum Durong

Where: Boondooma Homestead, Mundubbera-Durong Road

When: Thursday, 31 May 2012, 11.30am – 6.30pm (BBQ tea to follow)

Cost: $20/business

To view Durong BeefUp form flier click HERE!!

Register today by calling MLA on 1800 675 717

Further information: www.mla.com.au/beefup

Seats on the bus are limited! Cost of the field trip is free…. just bring your hat, walking shoes and water.

 Where: Meet at Bicentennial Park

When: Friday 18 May, 8.30am

Look forward to seeing you there.

To view flier click HERE!!

Just want to know when to cut the hay or move the cattle?

South East Burnett Landcare invites you to a one day workshop with Dr Jeff Clewett.

 This unique workshop is tailored specifically for the Burnett region.

 When: 2 May 2012, 8.30am for 9am start until 3.30pm

 Where: Tansey Bowls Club, Burnett Highway, Tansy

 Cost: $20/person, $10 for seniors, pensioners, students and Landcare members, $20/family or couple

 Numbers are limited

RSVP Grace Gibson 41687220 or 0419201160

For more information and to view program click HERE!!

Pest fish can go relatively unnoticed unless you’re an avid freshwater fisherman, especially in the wetter season we’re having.  Tilapia is known to exist in the Burnett Catchment, however since the 2010-11 flood it was caught in the Burnett River just near Mundubbera.

Would you know what to look for if you found a pest fish species such as Tilapia?

The best tip is to take note of where you found the unusual fish, what it looked like and if possible take a few good photos.

The Queensland Fisheries department has some helpful information on ‘How to Identify Tilapia‘ as part of their Stop the Spread: Preventing tilapia establishing in the Murray Darling Basin program.  You can read up on this by clicking the above link or checking out http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/28_20961.htm

(Newspaper snippet from Central and North Burnett Times, 22 March 2012)

When:  20 April 2012, 9.00am to 3.00pm

Where:  BJ Gentry’s eastern property off Manumbar Road, Nth of Nanango

RSVP:   pfsq@bigpond.com or phone 54836535

For more information click HERE!!

 Where: Gympie

When:  13 April 2012, 9am to 3.30pm

For more information on the Gympie workshop click HERE!

Where: Gayndah

When: 14 April 2012, 9am to 3.30pm

For more information on the Gympie workshop click HERE!!

To Register Phone: Kathy Wood 5459 4706 Mob: 0428 715 048

or Email: kwood3@usc.edu.au

One landholder in Lower Burnett Subcatchment, just east of Paradise Dam has found the Reef Rescue funding he received this financial year to be particularly helpful this year.

These photos show the before and after.

The problem was that the soluble subsoil was quickly and easily being washed once the surface soil had all washed and bare soil was showing.  The solution was a combination of ripping lines across the slope, battering the sharp banks where the erosion was active and spreading hay across the flatter areas and rocks with plenty of soil in the deeper gullies.

With more rainfall predicted this week, the Bisset and Hatch Bluegrass seeds that were sown will have plenty of moisture to get growing and hold on to the soil.

Reef Rescue is an initiative of the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country program aimed at improving water quality in the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon through assisting farmers and graziers to improve their management practices.  Within the grazing industry in the Burnett Mary region, this means providing support to our coastal graziers to improve and enhance their current grazing management.

The priority area for Reef Rescue Grazing is the coastal Burnett region as it has been in previous years (see map).

If you have been involved with Reef Rescue Grazing in the past 4 years and wish to be involved in Year 5, please CLICK HERE for your Expression of Interest form. However, please note past participants must undertake a different improved management practice to what they were funded to implement in previous Reef Rescue Grazing years, unless the practice is to be undertaken on a different property.

 If you are new to the Reef Rescue Grazing program, please CLICK HERE for your Expression of Interest form.

Expressions of Interest close 13 April 2012.

If you have any questions about the program, please call BCCA on (07) 41663898 or email us at admin@burnettcatchment.org.

Date                     Place                                           Time           

Friday 13 April       Durong Bowls Club            9am sharp till 2.30pm

These Free days are a good opportunity to get your climate questions answered by Dave McRae from the Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence.

Catering morning tea and lunch will be provided (arrive before 9am for cuppa)

Please RSVP at least 2 days prior for catering purposes

Suzette Argent P: 07 4688 1224 M: 0467 740 60 Suzette.Argent@deedi.qld.gov.au

Roger Sneath   P: 07 4669 0808  Roger.Sneath@deedi.qld.gov.au

Workshops presents by Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation

For more information click HERE!!