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WARWICK will play host to the state Landcare conference in September, so it seems fitting to have a local scene launch the event.

News
3:28 PM May 21st

State Landcare registration opens today

IT WAS a frigid start to the day with the mercury dropping to a nose-numbing three degrees before mother nature raised the temperature to 22.

Weather

Forecast of a wetter winter

GPS trackers are being fitted to wild dogs in peri-urban areas to gain a better understanding of their habits and their movements.

News

Tracker dogs? No way. These wild dogs are being tracked

BIOSECURITY Queensland personnel met with Highborne Farm owner Cameron Osborne at the weekend after two horses contracted the deadly Australian bat lyssavirus.

News

Horses contract bat virus but no bats at Allora property

COFFS Harbour Regional Landcare has added another feather to their cap: the local weeds identification booklet.

News

Weed guide spots culprits

NAMBUCCA Valley Landcare has just completed a study and control of willows in the Nambucca Shire funded by the Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority.

News

Black willow is the worst in river system

BLUEBERRY growers near Woolgoolga are working to improve land management and water quality in the Hearnes Lake catchment.

Horticulture

Better berries come from better land and water use

CENTRAL Queensland was well represented at the inaugural Reef Rescue Awards, with two awards won by local farmers.

News

CQ among the honours in Reef Rescue awards

RESULTS of a recent public polling showed, without doubt, Australian agriculture is the most trusted industry in Australia.

Columns

Agriculture, Australia's most trusted industry

A WWF report identified nearly 40,000 hectares of bushland could be at risk in and around Toowoomba if the State Government relaxes tree clearing laws.

News

WWF fears for bushland

GRAZIERS are at a loss to understand the logic behind the State Government’s drive to allow cattle grazing in Queensland national parks.

News

Graziers query choice of national parks opened for cattle

AS 25,000 head of cattle struggle to survive, the Queensland and Commonwealth governments are at logger-heads over who really cares for their welfare.

News

Failure to help farmers not a reason to use parks: Burke

THE Regional Universities Network is to hold the inaugural Digital Rural Futures Conference at the University of New England in Armidale fromJune 26-28.

News

Regional unis explore farm improvement through technology

CHEMICALS are being used in an attempt to kill the aggressive cat’s claw weed throughout the Mary River catchment.

News

The claws are out and targeting a nasty creeper

TENS of thousands of cattle are starving in Queensland while the Federal Government refuses to open up national parks and reserves for food supplies.

News

'Cattle starve while feds refuse access to national parks'

FARMERS and rural landholders will benefit from greater access to carbon markets, following changes to land sector emissions reported under the Kyoto Protocol.

News

New initiatives to help carbon farming

IF there were three words that describe the sugar industry to Canegrowers Mackay chairman Paul Schembri, they would be innovation, resilence and passionate.

News

Outgoing Canegrowers boss treated it as a privilege

THE BURRINGBAR Hall was buzzing with people yesterday as landowners came to a council directed forum on rural land strategy.

News

Landowners have their say at rural lands forums

IT IS something we are all familiar with, be it bottles discarded on our favourite beach or that pile of rubbish gathering at the traffic lights – litter.

News

Time to clean up our act

ANOTHER 10 Jobs and Skills Expos will be funded and more people encouraged to move to regional areas for work next fiscal year, as part of a budget package.

Business

Federal budget funds for more regional Jobs and Skills Expos

DROUGHT-stricken graziers can now use national parks and other selected properties in north-western Queensland for emergency agistment.

News

Selected national parks opened for grazing

LIPPIA, or as it is commonly known Condamine couch or Condamine curse, is an increasingly critical issue for farmers in the catchment.

News

Stamping out Condamine curse

WE have discussed the management tools we use can have different impacts on the land, depending on the environment in which we live.

Columns

Understanding land management tools

THE GOLD rush days of yesteryear could return to Drake, with White Rock Minerals finding a deposit an analyst says would be worth $180m.

News

$180 million gold strike

THE Australian Sugar Industry’s new research organisation Sugar Research Australia has been registered as a company by the Australian Sugar Industry Alliance.

News

Sugar Research Australia another step closer

THE best young minds in the country will soon be thinking research solutions for pest animal problems.

News

Young scientists to research feral animal control

THE next Marine Discovery Series will take place next week at Coffs Harbour and will focus on an interactive reporting website.

Rural

Keeping an eye on marine life

LOCK The Gate Alliance president Drew Hutton is calling on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to deliver “real action” to protect farmland from mining.

Politics

Lock The Gate calls for 'real action' from Coalition on CSG

The high levels of investment means significant career opportunities in the engineering industry in coming years.

Employment

Engineering offers significant career options

WORK on two major meat chicken farms for the Warwick area is expected to get under way by the end of the year.

News

Best laid plans for two chicken farms

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