Talkin' After Hours: A free workshop and networking event. Getting Your Legumes to Work Harder - best practices to ensure your legumes fix more nitrogen for your pasture and cropping systems. Lower Blackwood Catchment LCDC's August ‘Talkin’ After Hours brings you the latest information on factors affecting legume nodulation and the best practices to ensure your legumes fix more nitrogen […]

Dung beetles do not cause crop or pasture damage, which is probably why so little attention is given to them! Besides dung removal – most obvious by summer “shredders” – what other benefits do they bring to livestock production? This Talkin’ After Hours presentation will discuss ways dung beetles can work for you to improve animal health, address soil constraints […]

Essential minerals are often overlooked in the scheme of livestock nutrition. However, they are a vital component when it comes to the importance of health, growth, reproduction and general maintenance of animals. Lower Blackwood Landcare's next 'Talkin’ After Hours' explores this critical topic & will give you an insight and understanding of: - what trace elements are important for ruminant […]

Join Lower Blackwood LCDC for their next 'Talkin' After Hours' event: Get To Know Your Underground Livestock. "An incredible diversity of organisms live under our feet. They range in size from the tiniest one-celled bacteria, to the visible earthworms, insects & small vertebrates. As these organisms eat, grow, and move through the soil, they make it possible to have healthy […]

Presented by Lower Blackwood Catchment LCDC, join them for their next Talkin' After Hours event, followed by a networking BBQ. Stock grazing on feed all year-round – is this possible or simply a pipe dream? There are many farmers in the greater south west & other parts of the state who have already demonstrated that it’s certainly no pipe dream […]

From Lower Blackwood Landcare: Direct marketing and selling can be a great way to differentiate, tell your story, connect with your customers and community, and get better value for your product. And it can be a hard slog! Many communities and customers have become more interested and savvy (and in some places, concerned) about where and how food is grown. In this […]

When it comes to plant health, the spectrum of different advice going around these days, on how to address nutrition, can be somewhat overwhelming. Presented by local agro-ecologist Mark Tupman from Productive Ecology, this workshop will explore the pros and cons of the various diagnostic tools available and the measures we can implement in the development of a sound economical […]