North Burnett Extension Officer

2024

Investment: $37,000

Funding body: BIEDO through “Building Resilience and Recovery of the North Burnett” project funded under the joint Commonwealth State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements

Project purpose: Engage with primary producers in the North Burnett to build disaster resilience

Key achievements:

          • Assist six landholders with the development of Disaster Resilience Plans
          • Four capacity building events held with 40 attendees
          • Engaged with 120 producers across the North Burnett

BCCA engaged with primary producers in the North Burnett to build disaster resilience and recovery of their business enterprise and ultimately the North Burnett region.

BCCA attended local shows in the North Burnett region and local cattle sales where we supplied resources on soils mapping, grants available and plenty of resources on weed and pasture ID, erosion, landtypes and pasture management.

Four capacity building workshops were held including:

  • Surveying Contour Banks field day at Mulgildie with Soil Conservation Officer John Day with 12 farmers in attendance.
  • Two Control & Management of Weeds in Cropping at Mundubbera & Mungungo with 23 attendees in total.
  • Queensland Globe workshop at Coulstoun Lakes with five farmers. Queensland Globe is a valuable these tools are in helping landholders make informed management decisions about their properties.

This project was able to engage with over 120 producers from across the North Burnett at various events, shows, field days, workshops and one-on-one support opportunities.

The project showed producers appetite for one-on-one support for the development of property management plans and training and capacity building through hands on workshop and information sessions is very strong.

Program News

Queensland Mapping Workshop at Coalstoun Lakes

What a fantastic day at Coalstoun Lakes for the Queensland Globe Mapping Workshop! While our group was small the enthusiasm and eagerness to learn were huge. Participants had a hands-on experience learning how to draw key features like fences, water points and also...

BCCA out and about in the Burnett

BCCA attended 3 North Burnett Shows (Monto, Eidsvold and Mundubbera) and set up with NBRC Recovery Officer, SES and Rural Fire to provide information and support to producers including soil mapping info, grants available, technical support, biocontrol agents, weed and...

Brian Pastures Field Day

BCCA attended the Brian Pastures Field Day last week and with over 200 people in attendance, gave us the opportunity to showcase some of our current project at our trade stall.  Particularly our biocontrol project which involved breeding biocontrol agents for Cat's...

Program Sponsors

This project was supported by the following partners and investors.
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