BCCA – Burnett Catchment Care Association

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 [...]

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

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

What will it take to move you?  $5 million?  That’s today’s value of 50 000m3 of hardwood timber and what we expect to be the shortfall per year with the closure of Qld’s State Forests for timber production. BCCA, together with Private Forestry Southern Queensland ran a conference of a different sort this week, as almost [...]

Durong AgForce Branch is hosting the Durong 2020 Beef Summit on Monday 13 October 2008 at the Durong Community Hall.  Costing $30 for fist attendee from a business and $15 for subsequent attendees from the same business. Celebrating 50 years of industry representation in the Durong / Boondooma district KEY NOTE SPEAKER – Iain Mars [...]

Lee Dorahy Natural Resource Management Officer from North Burnett Regional Council is hosting an African Lovegrass Field Day 4 October, for more information please download the flyer: African Lovegrass Field Day

WHERE: Banapan Citrus, 16399 Burnett Highway Gayndah   WHEN: Wednesday 8 October 2008 TIME: 2pm to 5pm  RSVP: Monday 6 October on 07 41532555 PRICE: FREE (Funded by BCCA) Growers can check out the benefits of a range of farm management improvements made on farms in the Gayndah and Mundubbera district, at a FREE workshop on [...]

It’s only 3 days, until the 2008 Queensland Landcare Conference. As you probably realise the conferenece this year will be held Monto. Monto is of course in the Burnett Catchment, so it is only fitting that the BCCA should make a contribution. So the Better Burnett team will be hosting 2 of the 7 field [...]

To ensure we get good representation from landcare groups in our own catchment, we’re offering the special early bird rate of $430 registration to landcare groups in the Burnett and Mary Catchments.  That’s a saving of more than $200 on the standared registration rate and includes attendance at all social functions, field trip, breakfasts and [...]

South Burnett Regional Council and Gympie Regional Council in conjunction with the Bio-security Queensland are participating in a coordinated Wild Dog Baiting Program.  Failure to control wild dogs can result in livestock losses, attacks on domestic pets and the loss of native fauna. Landholders have a legislative responsibility to control declared pests on their land [...]