Hub Node, Fitzroy Basin Association in partnership with the TNQ Drought Hub recently held two Resilient Grazing Field Days in Springsure and Wowan on the 1st and 3rd of April. The field days offered hands-on opportunities for Central Queensland graziers to learn how to make important production decisions to improve business resilience.
Attendees learnt about creating resilience pastures through the use of legumes, how to take a pasture cut, calculate dry matter, understand the importance of a feed budget and has a land condition assessment session.
TNQ Regional Soils Coordinator, Dhiraj Gajera discussed the importance of soil health to build resilient pastures with the producers and worked with them to take soil core samples, learn how to use a soil penetrometer (which indicates the hardness or how compact the soil is), do a filtration test and test the soil for bacteria/fungi ratio, and ph. levels.
Hub Adoption Officer Jane Barker attended the Wowan Field Day and said the event was inspiring, with many producers having ‘aha’ moments, particularly around soil health.
Conversations across the two field days focused on the steps producers can take to improve pastures, what drives them to make a real change and be more efficient across their business.
