BCCA – Burnett Catchment Care Association

A cactus so tough that its spines can penetrate boots and car tyres has been found growing at Mundubbera, 400km northwest of Brisbane. Once spines of the hudson pear cactus penetrate the skin, they often require pliers to pull them out. It is potentially the worst cactus species to spread in Australia since prickly pear [...]

Private Forestry Southern Queensland (PFSQ) have set aside 5 days to help landholders in the Monogorilby and Mundubbera regions get involved and get informed about native forest management on their land.  The workshops have been postponed to begin Wed. 2 April 08, running 1 day per fortnight.  The first to be held at Mongorilby (meet outside [...]

The wet weather on Valentines Day may have been a good day for staying in bed and snuggling, but not for the keen Cadarga district landholders who braved the wet, slippery roads to attend a Better Burnett update session at Monogorilby Hall.The session saw the Better Burnett project management team update the enthused landholders on [...]

With diminishing water supplies, the economics of growing crops have been challenged and one solution to this is the adoption of Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI). Dean & Tracy Rockemer are holding a field day to demonstrate their upgraded drip irrigation system which will save them 35 million litres of water/year.  This upgraded system was made possible through [...]

Hi all!  AgForward have got their workshops up and running again for the first half of 2008 and will be coming to our region in March.  The Computer Mapping workshops will be run:   4 March – Murgon    5 March – Dalby  26 March – Monto  27 March – Eidsvold  28 March – Gayndah  For [...]

Happy World Wetland Day! Did you know 37 years ago today, in a small resort town in Iran an international group met to develop a convention for the conservation and management of wetlands? The town, Ramsar is located on the Caspian Sea and the convention which the gathered experts developed is know to this day [...]