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  • Climate

    Did you know that over the last few years 19,000 hectares of revegetation has occurred in the Wheatbelt as part of the carbon economy?

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    If you want to know what is happening over the farm fence and what other farmers in the region are trialling then the Agtrials WA website could help you out.

  • Healthy Environments

    The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) is conducting a second National survey on pest animal and weed management for the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources.

  • Healthy Environments

    The State Government has strengthened measures to protect vulnerable and threatened native wildlife by declaring feral cats a pest animal in Western Australia.

  • Water

    The National On-Farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme is available to commercial farmers and pastoralists for improving livestock water infrastructure on properties throughout rural Western Australia regions identified by the state government as vulnerable to periods of dry conditions and on-farm water deficiencies.

  • Aboriginal NRM

    Tarkyn Narrier has joined Wheatbelt NRM as our new school-based trainee.

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    The partnership between the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (WA) and the Red Card for Rabbits and Foxes program has again provided benefits to the Regional Men’s Health Initiative (RMHI).

  • Healthy Environments

    12 months after the initial release of the Calici virus on his property Corrigin farmer Richard Guinness has seen rabbit numbers reduce by two thirds. This outperforms the national results and confirms that Calici is a viable control option in the Wheatbelt.

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    Announced recently by the Australian Government, the Soil CRC has been awarded funding and will deliver a project over the next two years that builds soil technical capacity and capability in grower groups, Landcare groups and NRM organisations, both within and outside of the CRC.

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    Wheatbelt NRMs Optimising fodder options in mixed farming project has identified the eight farms we will be working with over the next four years to demonstrate how ground cover options can be maximised for soil health and productivity gains.

  • Aboriginal NRM

    Successful in the recent Healthy Soils Healthy Rivers grants, the Friends of Dale River are planning a revegetation project adjacent to the Reserve Pool in Westdale.

  • Aboriginal NRM

    WA scientist Dr Stephen Hopper has recently suggested that one way in which we can all commit to caring for our environment is by adopting a Baronga, or Totem to the local Noongar people.