Innovations In Ag: Landscape change in a lifetime for sustainability and profit - Harden Landcare Galong producer Danny Flanery is demonstrating it’s possible to create significant landscape change and transform unproductive land into a sustainable, profitable food and fibre producing area in a single lifetime
Innovations In Ag: 20-years of action on ACT farm results in biodiversity and sustainability gains Steps taken by ACT producer Sarah Lindsay to protect waterways and improve vegetation have paid dividends with both business and biodiversity gains as the result
Innovations In Ag: Natural Resource Management Plan leads to biodiversity and profitability gains - Landcare VIC By fencing off waterways, reducing soil erosion, improving groundcover and creating wildlife corridors (biolinks), Victorian sheep and cattle producers Leanne and Peter Jackman have improved biodiversity on their Dadswell Bridge property, which has supported their Responsible Wool Standard certification
Innovation is key to the future efficacy of Landcare
Innovations In Ag: Transition to low input farming for productivity and biodiversity gains New Western Australian farmers Sarah and Geoff Mason have made a swift transition to low input farming, with the goal of creating a profitable, full-time farm enterprise through productivity and biodiversity gains. Sarah’s mother purchased the 600-hectare ‘Carrah’ just outside Calingiri in WA in 2001, with Geoff and Sarah moving on to the property in 2008
Innovations In Ag: Exclusion Fencing and Land Rehydration Drive Drought Resilience and Profit Jarrod and Sam Thomson have turned their Queensland property around in just three years with extensive restoration and rehydration works ready to support a productive grazing enterprise
Innovations In Ag: Change in grazing techniques improves drought resilience in the rangeland Producers in Queensland’s rangelands are using innovative grazing techniques to increase biodiversity, boost productivity and improve drought resilience
Innovations In Ag: Growing the Grazing Revolution - Mid Lachlan Landcare For 13 years, Mid Lachlan Landcare has been running their groundbreaking Growing the Grazing Revolution (GGR) project , resulting in business and biodiversity gains for local producers and the wider community. Launched in 2010, the GGR project is aiming to: Build the skills of local farmers and increase the capacity for sustainable grazing management in the local community; Improve water use efficiency to increase groundcover and feed availability, reduce erosion and salinity, increase soil carbon and improving soil health; Explore and support farming systems which have already demonstrated benefits in the Mid Lachlan Landcare district; Encourage farming systems which deliver positive financial, social and ecological outcomes; and Provide forums for local producers to share their experiences, expertise and information about farming systems
Innovations In Ag: Moving to Management breeding and selection of goats - Western Landcare NSW Riding on the goat’s back in the west When the Australian wool industry collapsed in the late 1980s, western NSW producer John Vagg saw an opportunity and it came in the form of another four-legged animal, but this one was much more compatible with his landscape
Innovations In Ag: Upper Hunter Farmer’s Whole Farm Transition to Improve Productivity and Profitability - Hunter Landcare Episode 3 Hunter Valley producer Peter Dreyer has dealt with all extremes of climate since moving into farming in 2019
This project is supported by Landcare Australia, through funding from the Australian Government.Landcare Australia is proud to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the Country on which we live and work. We value and respect their deep and continued spiritual and cultural connections to the land, waters and seas, and pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders past, present and future.