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Rivers and Water Quality

Healthy rivers, creeks and streams are the arteries of the Australian environment. They provide the water to sustain many different plant and animal communities, as well as being the lifeblood of our agricultural enterprises and rural communities. Without healthy water bodies, Australia does not have a sustainable future. > With 78 per cent of Australian woolgrowers having properties which (more)...

Managing Pastoral Country

There are approximately 1,700 woolgrowers in Australia’s pastoral zone managing properties ranging from a few thousand to several hundred thousand hectares. The industry is responding to a wide range of issues including land degradation (it is estimated that 16 per cent of pastoral land is degraded to some degree), animal welfare, uncontrolled pests and weeds, and the negative impact of these issues (more)...

Future Woolscapes

The Future Woolscapes sub-program stimulated debate about the future of the wool industry in order to provide an insight into the challenges, threats and opportunities that lie ahead in 20 to 30 years’ time. The sub-program worked with woolgrowers and industry to forecast what impact emerging global trends such as population demographics, technological change, environmental, production and trade (more)...

Sustainable Grazing on Saline Lands

Turning saline land into a profitable asset. Dryland salinity is recognised as one of the major risks to agriculture and the natural environment in the high to medium rainfall zones of Australia. Forty-one per cent of the nation’s woolgrowers indicate they already have land affected by dryland salinity [Land, Water & Wool Best Practice Survey 2003] and it (more)...

Benchmarking

The Benchmarking Sub-program aimed to create awareness of Land, Water & Wool and inform woolgrowers, government, agencies and industry about woolgrowers’ attitudes, actions and perceptions about natural resource management and their current practices. As part of the Benchmarking Sub-program, Land, Water & Wool commissioned the Best Practice (more)...

Reflections of Tasmanian Woolgrowers

In the following pages are stories told by 23 woolgrowers in Tasmania. They have been selected as a broad representation of people involved in wool growing and caring for the land and rivers in their regions. The purpose of the discussions was to discover and document people’s connection with rivers and life as a woolgrower.

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Improving seasonal forecasts for woolgrowers

a better climate for wool production

Improved climate forecasts which enable stocking rates to be better matched to feed availability are a priority for the longterm
sustainability and productivity of the wool industry. The Land, Water & Wool Managing Climate Variability subprogram is helpi

Improved Seasonal Conditions for Wool Producers in the Queensland Pastoral zone

Mileston 4 Final Report December 2004

Summarises Phase one of this project

The big NRM issues facing woolgrowers

Land, Water & Wool placed the wool industry at the forefront of investment in environmental sustainability in a commercial context. It invested in research, development and extension of commercial, productive solutions to key natural resource management issues.

The Issues: Grazing the Rangelands

Rangelands cover over 75 per cent of Australia’s land mass and are the largest group of relatively natural ecosystems in Australia. The continued productivity of the Rangelands for wool production depends on the long-term sustainability of their vegetation systems. Australia’s Rangelands are a mosaic of vegetation types that include grasslands, shrublands and woodlands. The short-term productivity of these systems for wool production is dependent on the annual species and plants (more)...