Strategic Feed Budgeting for Sheep Containment

Have you registered for next week’s Strategic Feed Budgeting for Sheep Containment? We are excited to be working with Jim Meckiff from JM Livestock to bring you our 3rd Stock Containment workshop. Focusing on enhancing feed budgeting proficiency for ewes and lambs in confinement, this workshop will effectively demonstrate how you can best harness livestock […]

Are you Ready for the Great Southern BioBlitz?

Only one week until the Great Southern BioBlitz 2023 – Greater Hume kicks off on the 24th November, and Kylie & Peter have a great weekend of activities planned (read more here…). We are teaming with Refreshing Rivers to participate in the Great Southern Bioblitz 2023, with a focus on our creeks and waterways – […]

Great southern BioBlitz 2023 – Love Your Creek!

Love Your Creek! What’s a BioBlitz? This year we are teaming with Refreshing Rivers to participate in the Great Southern BioBlitz 2023 [#GSB2023], with a focus on our creeks and waterways. What is a BioBlitz? – Great question! Well, you can read all about the origins of the BioBlitz initiative, and how the Covid Pandemic gave rise to […]

Pastures Update

Tropical Pastures Update 11th October 2023 Come hear about recent project results from a gibberellic acid and urea strip trial on sub-tropical pasture. A chance to hear producer experiences growing sub-tropicals and other pasture mixes in Southern NSW. Come along with any trial ideas for the upcoming sub-tropical growing season. Mixed Species Annual Fodder Crops […]

Dual Purpose Cropping & Soil Acidity Workshop

6th October 2023 Dual-purpose crops have transformed mixed farming systems in southern Australia. The period during winter used to be a period of feed deficit whereas now it can be a period of livestock production. Discussion will include optimising dual-purpose crop agronomy, livestock health management and opportunities to boost your livestock enterprise through intensifying the […]

We’re Hiring! Pastures Project Officer

You may or may not be aware, we’re currently advertising for a new staff member to manage our grazing systems/pastures portfolio. We have some really interesting projects working with farmers and running projects looking at new species, pasture combinations, nutrient application in pastures and now technology adoption in pastures. It’s a highly varied role that will get […]

Riparian restoration in the Upper Murray

We were lucky to be able to help a couple of landholders near Tumbarumba with instream works through the Local Land Services Riparian Restoration Program earlier in the year, and the sites are now completed – the Soil Conservation Service delivered 4 instream structures and to try and help trap sediment in an eroded tributary […]

Plant & Progress Pub Panel

Pub Panel Flyer

Holbrook Landcare Network is excited to be bringing the Plant & Progress Pub Panel to the town. Join us and the team on Wednesday 27th September for this awesome evening event. With panelists Sandra Ireson (Hay Inc Rural Education) and Kayla Evans (AgCareerStart) and our own 2023 Hay Inc Alumni Jess Armstrong, attending this event […]

HLN Tony Nott Memorial Mural

Holbrook Landcare Network - Memorial Mural

Tony Nott was a long-standing, pioneer member of our Landcare community who passed away from Cancer in 2022. In addition to his strong connection to Landcare, Tony was an avid photographer, a lover of art, and passionate about his vintage car – a Peugeot 203 station wagon. Artist, Tracie McVean, was given the task of […]