8 Jan 2024
- Financial recovery assistance is now available for primary producers impacted by the Christmas Night Southeast Queensland Severe Storms, commencing 24 December 2023. Assistance also remains available for producers impacted by ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper. Learn more here.
- Queensland Fruit & Vegetable Growers (QFVG) have shared a story illustrating how growers have applied a digital solution to streamline their record-keeping processes through a QFVG ‘Grow Your Field’ grant. Read more here.
- Save the date: The Australian Cotton Conference 2024 will be held 6-8 August 2024 on the Gold Coast. Learn more and get involved here.
- Queensland Premier Steven Miles has reached out to the CEOs from major supermarkets amid concerns over the widening gap between the prices farmers receive for their produce and the prices customers are paying at the checkout. Read more here.
- QFF is seeking recent trainees from university and other institutions or those from other fields of expertise who wish to become an extension officer. The Agricultural Extension Work Placement Program will place early-career extension officers within host agribusiness or natural resource management organisations in the Great Barrier Reef catchment areas. Apply here today.
- QFF and other industry groups, community organisations and scientific experts continue to rally against a proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) project from Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation Pty Ltd (CTSCo), a subsidiary company of Glencore, which seeks to inject liquified carbon dioxide into a water producing aquifer within the Great Artesian Basin (GAB). Read more here.
- Are you a large electricity user? QFF are looking for Queensland based farmers that use over 100 000kw of energy a year for a free energy audit. If you are interested please contact Andres Jaramillo at andres@qff.org.au to learn more.
- The National Biosecurity Training Hub was released in December 2023, providing a centralised platform for biosecurity training to support biosecurity preparedness, response, and recovery. The platform currently contains more than 60 biosecurity training modules from providers including Plant Health Australia, Australian Chicken Meat Federation and Australian Pork Limited. Learn more here.
- Funding is now open for Round 8(a) of the Queensland Feral Pest Initiative. Funding is available for eligible organisations to employ 1 or more, up to a maximum of 4, feral pig management coordinator positions to support the initiation and delivery of effective feral pig management for both private and public land managers. Learn more here. Applications close Thursday, 29 February.
- The Department of Climate Change, Environment, Energy and Water are seeking experts to apply for the Biodiversity Assessment Expert Reference Group to provide independent advice to the department on the design and implementation of the science and knowledge system that will underpin the Nature Repair Market. Apply here by Thursday, 1 February 2024.
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