Latest News & Updates

  • 28 October, 2024 5 min Read

    Farming Forecaster – A Tasmanian success story

    Farming Forecaster is a powerful decision-tool delivering important insights for graziers into current soil moisture conditions alongside forecasts for future…

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  • 11 January, 2024 1 min Read

    Farming Forecaster extends reach to King Island and northwest Tasmania 

    Producers on King Island and across parts of northwest Tasmania can now access data on growing conditions for their region. …

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  • 5 June, 2023 4 min Read

    Multi-species forage crops, less may be more

    When graziers are looking to transition degraded pastures to more sustainable, diverse permanent pastures, forage crops (sown in one year…

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  • 4 May, 2023 1 min Read

    Discovery of historic pasture trial yields long-term persistence data

    MEDIA RELEASE Demonstration sites are an important tool that enables graziers to get useful local insights about the impact of…

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  • 27 September, 2022 5 min Read

    Farming Forecaster, effective ground cover management on a landscape-scale

    BACKGROUND Dryland pastures comprise the majority of agricultural land use by area in southern Tasmania and support a significant amount…

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  • 15 June, 2022 3 min Read

    Demonstrating pasture persistence on north facing slopes

    The Derwent Valley’s semi-arid climate presents serious management challenges for the region’s dryland graziers. Cleared north-facing slopes are a particularly…

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  • 7 June, 2022 2 min Read

    MEDIA RELEASE: Understand, improve, manage. A dryland grazing website for Tasmania.

    Short-growing seasons, variable soil conditions and erosion prone north-facing slopes are some of the challenges facing dryland graziers in Tasmania….

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  • 18 March, 2022 2 min Read

    Farming Forecaster showcased at recent workshops

    Farming Forecaster, the innovative and powerful feed budgeting and stock management tool that has seen a growing popularity amongst the…

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  • 7 March, 2022 2 min Read

    Funding boost for drought resilience

    NRM South is thrilled to announce that our $1.445M Drought Resilience Innovation Grant application has been successful. Our “Co-developing and…

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  • 15 February, 2022 2 min Read

    MEDIA RELEASE: ‘Farming Forecaster’ for Tasmanian graziers.

    Tasmanian graziers will now have access to a new online decision-making tool that has been developed by CSIRO in conjunction…

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  • 20 December, 2021 2 min Read

    Tasmanian Farming Forecaster pilot coming soon

    Over November, our Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator, Tim Ackroyd joined Peter Heading (NRM North’s Agricultural project officer) out in the…

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  • 10 December, 2021 2 min Read

    Sharing lessons on pasture renovation in the Derwent

    As part of NRM South’s Derwent Pasture Network (DPN) project, a recent pasture renovation seminar in Hamilton brought together farmers…

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  • 25 October, 2021 1 min Read

    Pasture renovation trials and the launch of Farming Forecaster in Tasmania

    NRM South is delivering a new drought resilience building project through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund. This project is…

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