by Melinda | 19 Jan, 10 | General
We found this poem whilst sorting out a few old files. From what we can gather, it was written back in the late 1980’s, before climate change was such a hot topic as it is these days…….We are not sure of the title of the poem. I am a plain and...
by Melinda | 13 Jan, 10 | General
A Grains BMP workshop is scheduled for Monto, on Tuesday 9th February 2010. The workshop will be presented by the Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries (QPI&F). What is Grains BMP? A range of skills and best practices for grains production in Queensland...
by Melinda | 24 Dec, 09 | General
The crew at Private Forestry Southern Queensland (PFSQ) are pleased to be able to continue to support and promote sustainable forest management in our region with funding through the federal government’s Caring for our Country program. Re-vegnet.au is the...
by Melinda | 23 Dec, 09 | General
The staff and executives at BCCA would like to wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas 2009. Our offices in Monto and Mundubbera will be closed during the Christmas-New Year break and will be reopening, and back in the full swing of things on 6 January 2010. Many...
by Melinda | 12 Dec, 09 | Better Catchments, Cropping
This week, BCCA continued to grow its project base to include the grains industry, after running a full workshop together with QPI&F extension officers taking grain growers through the recently developed Grains BMP. The Grains BMP was put together by QPI&F...
by Melinda | 11 Dec, 09 | General
A one-day Stocktake workshop was conducted on Tuesday, 24th November 2009, for South Burnett land managers. Stocktake is a paddock-scale land condition monitoring and management package. It was developed to provide grazing land managers with a practical, systematic...
by Melinda | 11 Dec, 09 | General
Over fifty graziers packed the Monto Town Hall on Friday to update their skills in sown pasture establishment in time for the coming wet season. The full day workshop, hosted by the Burnett Catchment Care Association (BCCA) was part of Better Catchments; an...
by Melinda | 2 Dec, 09 | General
Please be advised that the postal address for Burnett Catchment Care Association has been changed from PO Box 105 Mundubbera, to PO Box 8 Monto Q 4630 And the BCCA phone and fax number’s have also changed to Phone: 07 4166 3898 Fax: 07 4166 3897 The Mundubbera...
by Melinda | 10 Nov, 09 | General
Thanks to continued support from the Burnett Mary Regional Group for the coming financial year, BCCA are able to bring Burnett landholders a variety of workshops to help adapt to the changing climate and use the latest management tools. Stocktake workshop When:...
by Melinda | 3 Nov, 09 | General
On Saturday Oct 31, Burnett landholders gathered to plan a war on African Lovegrass. The North Burnett Regional Council set things off with a field day out at Narayen Station, west of Mundubbera, to share the successes and stories behind the demonstration site that...
by Melinda | 26 Oct, 09 | General
Farmers are being touted to appear in a new half-hour series about landholders facing impossible farming challenges but still willing to do everything they can to create a successful enterprise. Australia is one of the most difficult places in the world to farm; but...
by Melinda | 19 Oct, 09 | General
What’s grey and crunchy and looks worse for wear? African Lovegrass after being burned then chemically treated!! Narayen Station, west of Mundubbera and part of the Australian Agricultural College, has been working with the North Burnett Regional Council to...
