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Producers vying to win the Pasture Challenge
Producers have taken up South West NRM’s ‘Pasture Challenge’ by designing trials to overcome productivity constraints on a paddock near Busselton.A range of soil tests were conducted at the site in...
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Native vegetation benefiting farm productivity
Native vegetation can assist farm productivity by supporting canola pollinators and predators of aphids and caterpillars.That was the key take-home message from the ‘Building Resilience on Farm’ event...
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South West NRM sponsors Regen Ag Conference
South West NRM is a proud sponsor of the Regenerative Agriculture Conference 2023 being held in Margaret River this September. A down to earth conference engaging in the most promising agricultural...
View ArticleRelaunch for South West’s Peak Environmental Body
South West Catchments Council (SWCC), the region’s peak natural resource management organisation, is today relaunching as ‘South West NRM’. The not-for-profit is reinvigorating its mission to deliver...
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Livestock producers urged to measure emissions
Kirsty Want presenting at Managing Your Carbon Footprint event in Donnybrook With agricultural supply chains focused on becoming carbon neutral by 2030 (CN30), farmers are under increasing pressure to...
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Lime treatment impresses at Pasture Challenge Walk
Low disturbance sub-soiler demonstrated at the Pasture Challenge Field Walk Local farmers were surprised to see the performance of a liming treatment at the Pasture Challenge Field Walk south of...
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Local Salon Planting Seeds of Sustainability
Busselton’s Oscar and Ivy Hair Co put down their scissors and got their hands dirty this weekend, joining South West NRM and Busselton-Dunsborough Environment Centre to plant 1,400 native seedlings in...
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Important malleefowl discovery by Badgebup Rangers
In exciting news for one of the region’s threatened species, active malleefowl mounds have been found in the eastern Wheatbelt for the first time during the final months of South West NRM’s 5-year...
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Roelands Village Elders impart traditional ecological knowledge
Lera Bennell and Les Wallam of Roelands Village came together with a local farmer last month to discuss the history and cultural significance of the area and provide advice on how to apply Traditional...
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Pasture Challenge Update
Four groups of farmers are going head-to-head in South West NRM’s Pasture Challenge, testing agronomic packages to overcome soil constraints and increase productivity on a paddock near Busselton....
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