BCCA – Burnett Catchment Care Association

Our flooded creeks, rivers, gullies and floodplains are starting to show green shoots again after the mass of silt and sand that washed over them over the past few months. Some places look like they’ve been stripped bare and turned into a desert! One of the plant species that we’ve noticed has been knocked about [...]

The Kingaroy Landcare Group with the support of BGA Agriservices are hosting a ‘Improved rainfall infiltration on old cropping land’ FIELD DAY Saturday 26 February 3pm – 5pm  At a demonstration site at Booie in the South Burnett.  For instructions on how to get there, check out the flyer here: Field Day information Rainfall infiltration [...]

For the latest Burnett Buzz.. please click here! In this issue: Better Catchments dung beetle workshops for Gayndah and Eidsvold Turtle special—Elsie the Elseya Reef Rescue Grazing Year 3 — a slow start Flooding in the region

BCCA have organised one of Australia’s leading dung beetle experts, Mr John Feehan, to travel to the Central Burnett region to spread the word on the value of dung beetles.    The benefits dung beetles to improve soil health are often overlooked, as these out-of-sight, out of mind, soil soldiers offer a low-cost method of [...]

Healthy soils beneath our crops and pastures will mean a healthy hip pocket and a healthy catchment.  So what are they top 10 habits of producers who can maintain heatlhy soils?  1. Maintain organic matter and ground cover 2. Maintain soil fertility 3. Maintain healthy plant growth 4. Manage for soil structural stability 5. Monitor & evaluate soil constraints [...]