Archive for October, 2008
BCCA – Newsletter October 2008
Current Newsletter avaliable for download: October 2008 – Newsletter
Posted: October 31st, 2008 under Better Beef, Better Bush, Better Waterways, General, Landcare, Weeds and Pests.
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BCCA Annual Report
Now Available for download is the association’s Annual Report: Annual Report 2007/2008
Posted: October 31st, 2008 under Better Beef, Better Bush, Better Waterways, General, Landcare, Weeds and Pests.
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SuperGraze Launch Invite – 6 November 2008
Supergraze is here!!! SuperGraze is a joint initiative of the three Regional Bodies and their partners, that is funded by the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country program. It amis to benefit landholders across the three regions by helping to identify and implement imporved land management processes that increase productivity, while helping to sustain our [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2008 under Better Beef, Better Bush, Better Waterways, General, Landcare, Weeds and Pests.
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DPI&F Feedlot ‘New Investor’ FREE Seminar – Dalby
For more information about this free seminar – Wednesday 19 November 2008 Dalby RSL Warrego Highway from 9am to
4pm. Numbers are limited please download the following flyer: DPI&F Feedlot New Investor Seminar Dalby
Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Better Beef, Better Bush, Better Waterways, General, Landcare, Weeds and Pests.
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Regulation Risks Reef Rescue
On Friday, Industry and Natural Resource Management Groups quietly celebrated the formalisation of partnerships that would see delivery of incentives to landholders in Queensland Reef catchments including the Burnett. At a Reef Summit in Brisbane on the same day, the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh indicated that the Queensland Government would pursue regulation to [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2008 under General.
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PFSQ Native Forestry Field Day at Monogorilby
Last Wednesday, a group of landholders gathered in a patch of Spotted Gum and Narrow Leaf Ironbark forest to hear about what opportunities exist for forestry on private land – and how to go about cashing in on those opportunities!
The field day out at Monogorilby, hosted by Burnett Catchment Care Association BCCA together with [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2008 under Better Bush.
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Position Vacant – Waterways Coordinator
The position for the Waterways Coordinator is now available. Applications close on Tuesday 11 November 2008 close of busniess 5pm.
For details please use the following link: www.burnettcatchment.org/employment
Posted: October 20th, 2008 under Better Beef, Better Bush, Better Waterways, General, Landcare, Weeds and Pests.
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MLA Chair Calls for Calm
Meat and Livestock Australia MLA Chair Don Heatley has said in an interview with Agmates, that beef producers should remain calm in the global credit crisis.
Our meat industry is 65% reliant on exports and we really just have to wait for any affect to flow back through the global supply chain. Having said that people [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2008 under Better Beef.
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Private Forestry Veg Management Field Day and Podcast
If you missed the Central Burnett Private Forestry Teleconference and want to know about private forestry, or did take part and want to see some native forestry principles put into place on a working cattle property in the Burnett, then come along to the FREE workshop hosted by Private Forestry Southern Queensland and Burnett Catchment [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2008 under Better Bush, General.
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Central Burnett Citrus Growers Experience a Lift.
Recently Growcom held a field day for Central Burnett’s citrus growers to showcase the outcomes from their project within BCCA’s Better Burnett Catchment Recovery Program. The field day was held at the property of Ken Harris in Gayndah and was sponsored by AustSafe and Wesfarmers.
The focus of the Growcom project was to assist citrus growers [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2008 under Better Waterways.
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