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  • Water
    Waterways work balances conservation and land use

    Dean and Jacqui Bicknell from Nunile believe land management is about achieving a balance between sustainable use and conservation.

  • Water
    Plantings rehabilitate construction zone at lakes

    Last week the Wheatbelt NRM team including the Noongar Budja Rangers were out at Lake Yealering and Lake Ewlyamartup to revegetate disturbed areas.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Advice the big benefit of farm planning process

    Kelly and Justin Mann form Beverley are part of our Australian Government Mixed Farming project that is working with farmers to plan for improved ground cover outcomes that not only seeks to improve soil health will make life easier for farmers to manage the summer feed gap.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Drought Relief Funding for Wheatbelt Farmers

    Farmers/ farm workers or contractors impacted by drought may be entitled to receive a one off payment up to $3000 through the Drought Community Support Initiative.

  • Healthy Environments
    Chance to tell feral cat story on a national stage

    The House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy has today commenced a new inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats in Australia.

  • Healthy Environments
    Feral Animal Control

    Trent Tyler has a farm property in Wyalkatchem that abuts the Korrelocking Nature Reserve which is a 250ha reserve home to mature Salmon Gum and Gimlet woodlands and is a sanctuary for kangaroos and other forms of animal and bird life.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Done with Dung

    Dung Beetles might be a welcome addition to your farm and the benefits of these industrious willing workers may surprise you.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Summer Ground Cover Plans hitting the mark

    With seeding over and ground cover plans in place, many of our demonstration site farmers from the ‘Maximising Fodder Options in Mixed Farming Systems’ project are turning their attention to planting.

  • Sustainable Industries
    A Total Change of Mindset

    Things were looking grim around Mt Hampton due to the drought; the land was getting dryer and dryer, there had been little rain for two years and none forecast to come.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Rangers share the amazing Wheatbelt with the Governor

    The Noongar Budjar Rangers were happy to spend time last week with the Honourable Kim Beazley AC - Governor of WA at an event with the Shire of Northam at the BKB Centre.

  • Healthy Environments
    Cats – The killing machines

    We know feral cats are an enormous problem for our native wildlife, with the Threatened Species Hub saying they kill more than three billion animals per year.

  • Healthy Environments
    What woodland is that?

    There are over 70 different sub-communities of the Critically Endangered Eucalypt Woodlands of the Western Australian Wheatbelt ecological community.