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  • Online Carbon Credit Calculator for Soil Carbon Projects

    Perth, Western Australia – 16 July 2024 – Carbon Sync, a Western Australian soil carbon farming project developer, today announced the launch of Australia's first free online carbon credit calculator specifically designed for soil carbon projects. This innovative tool empowers farmers to estimate their potential carbon credit earnings and associated income, fostering greater transparency and informed decision-making in the rapidly growing carbon farming sector.

  • Community Engagement
    Come and visit us at Dowerin Field Days. New location!

    At Dowerin Field Days 2024 you will find Wheatbelt NRM inside the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development shed.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Hope for the best, plan for the worst

    In the 23/24 financial year, the Noongar Boodjar Rangers spent more than 1364 hours working on Country for Main Roads, 1424 at the Northam cemetery, plus several hundred hours around places such as Northam, Toodyay, Warralakin, and Beverley.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Do corella movements change with onset of Makuru?

    Makuru—cold and wet with westerly gales. Does this type of weather affect the movement patterns of corellas? Please add your observations via our citizen science survey! This data is formulating our response to the corella issue.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    66,000

    Over two weeks in June the Noongar Boodjar Rangers spent 8 days planting trees at Warralakin in the North-Eastern Wheatbelt for Carbon Positive. Enduring the cold and rain, but loving being on Country, a total of 11 Rangers planted 66,000 shrubs and trees into land for carbon offsets.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Twenty Years of Red Card

    Red Card for Rabbits and Foxes celebrates its 20th anniversary this year! Instigated by two landcare groups in 2004, it has grown to cover the South West Agricultural Land Division of Western Australia from north of Geraldton out to Esperance.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Saltbush for carbon project consolidates its’ second year

    The Assessing Saltbush for Carbon Sequestration project, which begun in 2022, has now entered its second year of activity. Infill plantings are currently being completed to make up for plant losses from last year due to animal activity and waterlogging.

  • Healthy Environments
    Planting for the future

    When you invest your time and money into a revegetation project you want to give those seedlings the best chance to thrive. Here are our tips to plan, prepare and manage your planting to improve revegetation success.

    1. Your area is unique, get to know it

  • Governance
    CEO Welcome.

    For the last 20 years, Renata has been owner and manager of “The Lakes Cattle Company”. She has employed sustainable practices such as rotational grazing and the fencing and tree planting of salt affected areas.

  • Governance
    Changing of the Guard!

    With a touch of nostalgia the Wheatbelt NRM staff and Board of Directors bid farewell to Dr Karl O’Callaghan who guided the organisation through significant paradigm changes and restructures as it navigated new funding systems and business innovation opportunities.

  • Business Innovations
    Project Opportunity – Natural Capital as an asset class

    An innovative project is coming to the Wheatbelt that will prepare Western Australia for the paradigm shift in agricultural systems by understanding the potential of Natural Capital production landscapes as an asset class.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    The benefits of keeping sheep

    With seasonal conditions and market forces reducing confidence in the sheep industry, there are still benefits to soil health from incorporating sheep within a farming system.