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Merry Christmas from BCCA!
?[̲̅m̲̅][̲̅e̲̅][̲̅r̲̅][̲̅r̲̅][̲̅y̲̅] [̲̅c̲̅][̲̅h̲̅][̲̅r̲̅][̲̅i̲̅][̲̅s̲̅][̲̅t̲̅][̲̅m̲̅][̲̅a̲̅][̲̅s̲̅] from the BCCA team!? We hope you have a ⓗⓐⓟⓟⓨ ⓝⓔⓦ ⓨⓔⓐⓡ and wish for 2020 to bring you the season you need to prosper.?⛅️☀️ ?The BCCA office will be closed from 12pm...
Annual Report 2018-2019
'We would also like to thank the dedicated staff of BCCA who continue to ‘go the extra mile’ to provide the very best support to landholders in the Burnett Catchment. Thankyou also to the Management Committee who continue to guide us in our efforts to support...
BCCA AGM and General Meeting – 21 November 2019 – Mundubbera
It is that time of the year again!! BCCA will be holding an Annual General Meeting (AGM), on Thursday 21 November 2019, at Mundubbera town hall supper rooms. The meeting will begin at 9.30am, with morning tea to follow. After our AGM we will be holding our...
Advocate for the Burnett Catchment farewelled
Condolences to the Darlington family on the passing of Jan. She was a driving force behind the early years of the Burnett Catchment Care Association, and attended BCCA's 20 year celebration of natural resource management in the Burnett catchment in 2015. Jan was also...
Economic survey – feral pigs economic cost to horticultural and cropping industries
Widebay Burnett Regional Organisation of Councils (WBBROC), Invasive Species Advisory Committee is currently conducting an economic survey to approximate the economic cost that feral pigs are having to our horticultural and cropping industries. In addition to...
Inland Burnett: SMART Audit and Strategic Gap Analysis
Inland Burnett: SMART Audit and Strategic Gap Analysis project is funded by the Australian Government through Building Better Regions Fund. The founding concept behind this project is based on the fact that agriculture is fast becoming more knowledge intensive....
Erosion control advice property visits
John Day (Soil Conservation Adviser - Emu Ridge Pty Ltd) is spending the week in Monto providing erosion control and remediation design advice as part of BCCA's Natural Disaster Resilience Project. Much of the damage sustained at the sites we've visited is as a result...
Welcome to the BCCA team Sarah!
Hi, my name is Sarah and I have recently come on-board with BCCA as the Community Resilience Officer, taking over the facilitation of the North Burnett Natural Disaster Resilience Program (NDRP). I come from a rural background; our family owned a piggery on the...
Risky Business
Improving Resilience & Risk-Based Decision Making workshops organised by BCCA were held in Gaeta and Coalstoun Lakes in August. Presenter Cam Nicholson from Nicon Rural Consulting, aimed to explore the decision's landholders make on a daily basis and the idea...
The Burnett Buzz…..Spring 2019
The latest Burnett Buzz is out, highlights include: Upcoming RCS Clinic— Biggenden 9 - 11 October Inland Burnett SMARTHub survey! Managing Risk in Agriculture - review of August workshops Drought Declaration - assistance available To download your copy click...
Entire Burnett Now Drought Declared
Due to significate ‘lack of rain and rapidly depleting pasture reserves’, the North Burnett local Council area has been drought declared, back dated to 1 September 2019. The North Burnett local government area now joins the South Burnett (declared March 2017) and the...
Monto Agricultural Strategy Launch
On Thursday evening, 29 August 2019, a crowd gathered to see the official launch of the Monto Agricultural Strategy. The Monto Agricultural Strategy was funded by the Australian Government through the Building Better Regions Fund. BBRF as it is known is an...
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