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Productive Resource Management for wool growers

A comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide on resource management for woolgrowers. Provides background information about the industry and outlines of the LWW research program. Summarises each component of LWW, resource management and the opinions from a

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Wool production and biodiversity at Lana

A detailed case study of the Taylors - a profitable woolgrowing family - a profitable New England woolgrowing family who manage for production and biodiversity outcomes using Holistic Resource Management Principles.

Delivering a land condition framework for grazing land management education

Rangelands ecosystems, on which pastoral enterprises are based, are relatively sensitive and damage through poor management can be very slow to reverse. Effective monitoring of land condition offers the hope that decline in land condition can be spotted and corrected at an early stage. As land managers come under increasing scrutiny from outside, monitoring can also offer a means of ‘proving’ good land management. However, monitoring is complex and time consuming. In this project, Dr (more)...

Peering into the future to plan for today

Delegates at the recent VegFutures 2006 conference in Albury were treated to a journey into the realms of the future for natural resource management in Australia courtesy of the wool industry’s Land, Water & Wool Future Woolscapes initiative. The future scoping session explored what on-farm natural resource management in the year 2030 may look like. The entertaining session revolved around a mock radio interview with a woolgrower set in the future, followed by (more)...

Wool environmental credentials recognised

A long-term vision for natural resource management, commitment to improving the environmental credentials of the wool industry and significant leadership skills have earned Tasmanian woolgrowers Tom and Cynthia Dunbabin the 15th McKell Medal for excellence in natural resource management. The award, announced in Darwin today by the joint Chairs of Australia’s Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council — Ministers Warren Truss and Ian Campbell — recognises an outstanding (more)...