Latest News & Updates
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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…