Agro Trend is on again in 2010 and this year will be incorporating the Bundaberg Organic Roadshow. The event, run by Biological Farmers Australia together with Seasol, will be happening at the Agro Trend Field Days at Kendalls Rd on: Thurs 6 May – All day from...
The past few weeks have been busy on the Burnett River, in preparation for the start of the nesting season for the White-throated Snapping Turtle. On a couple of popular nesting areas near South Kolan, BCCA have been working with landholders, Dept of Environment and...
In this issue: Reef Rescue Graziers finish projects despite the rain Better Catchments in the inland Burnett in 2010 GLM forum for Gayndah Nest protection underway for threatened freshwater turtle Compost Tea workshop a hit Click here to view our latest newsletter...
The Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) are considering hosting a Peter Andrews field day/workshop, in the Burnett Region. Peter Andrews is a grazier and race horse breeder from Bylong in the Upper Hunter Valley and has gained fundamental insights into the natural...
Presented by AgData Australia & hosted by BCCA The Phoenix Mapping module covers organising and displaying spatial data and the concepts involved in farm infrastructure planning and recording. The ability to select and load the appropriate imagery and map data,...
10am Wednesday morning Originally uploaded by betterburnett Flood warnings are out for the Burnett River and surrounding tributaries and you can see why! This photo is of the Burnett River at Jones Weir at Mundubbera. The weir has been flowing over thanks to a good...
What’s in your soil? Originally uploaded by betterburnett We had a great turnout for our Compost Tea workshop in Mundubbera this week. Producers came from all over the catchment to learn about compost, why it’s so good and how to put it to use by making it...
The Agforce Cattle board will hold it’s next open forum at the Gayndah Shire Hall, between 10 am and 3 pm on Friday 5th March. The open forums are held twice a year to allow Agforce members and all participants in the industry to hear about the work of the...
If the our local paper in the North Burnett is anything to go by, soil biology is a hot topic at the moment. And why shouldn’t it be? Many farmers and graziers here in Queensland are seeing the benefits of healthy soils. Funding from the Australian...
If you’d like to GET INVOLVED in hands-on work that will really make a difference to the survival of one of our unique Australian species you can! We need volunteers who live or holiday in the Bundaberg (Queensland, Aus) region who are willing to get down to the...
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...
