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  • 19 June, 2025 3 min Read

    Protecting Bruny Island bushland from dieback

    HOW PHOSPHITE CAN HELP PROTECT OUR BUSHLAND FROM PHYTOPHTHORA DIEBACK Phytophthora cinnamomi is a serious plant disease threatening Australia’s native…

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  • 3 April, 2025 2 min Read

    SAF quarterly update – March 2025

    The Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator (SAF) role is an important point of contact for farmers, landholders, industry and community groups in…

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  • 31 March, 2025 1 min Read

    Boosting the good bugs

    Across two days in March 2025, Dr Yolanda Hanusch – Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator and Senior Project Officer from our Land…

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  • 16 October, 2024 4 min Read

    Reflections on the 2024 Private Land Conservation Conference from our Sustainable Agricultural Facilitators

    From the 10-11 October, the Australian Land Conservation Alliance held its annual Private Land Conservation Conference (PLC24), under the theme…

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  • 20 May, 2024 3 min Read

    Reporting back from the Sustainable Agricultural Facilitator Conference

    NRM South’s Sustainable Agricultural Facilitators, Yolanda Hanusch and Tim Ackroyd, recently attended the first biennial Sustainable Agricultural Facilitator (SAF) Conference…

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  • Image credit Yimin Liew (2023)

    6 December, 2023 1 min Read

    Managing for Carbon, Biodiversity and Native Bees

    In late November, Dr Yolanda Hanusch from our Land team spoke at Landcare Tasmania’s ‘Navigating Carbon and Biodiversity Markets’ event…

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  • 10 May, 2023 2 min Read

    Revisiting the east coast pasture trials

    During an April field day at Milton on the east coast, we revisited our three pasture trials to see how…

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  • 30 June, 2022 2 min Read

    Wrapping up the east coast legume trial

    NRM South, in partnership with the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA), have been running a perennial legume trial at Milton,…

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  • 22 February, 2022 2 min Read

    A field day in the Fingal: Talking pasture renovation trials and livestock health

    In mid-February we ran a field day in the Fingal Valley, sharing what we’ve learned so far from our strip…

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  • 28 January, 2022 2 min Read

    Regenerative agriculture for drought resilience

    A regenerative grazing project at Okehampton (Cape Herbert Pty Ltd), a sheep grazing property near Triabunna on Tasmania’s east coast,…

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  • 15 December, 2020 2 min Read

    Perennial trials and tribulations

    In early December, NRM South’s Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator – in collaboration with the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) and…

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  • 23 October, 2020 3 min Read

    Stopping the spread of serrated tussock

    NRM South was proud to support Glamorgan Spring Bay Council and Tasman Council at a recent serrated tussock workshop in…

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  • 30 June, 2020 1 min Read

    Autumn sowing of perennial pastures

    Recent rains have helped push along a perennial pasture legume trial on Tasmania’s East Coast. This trial is a collaborative…

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