5 July 2021
- Many landholders are rightly concerned the current land-use planning framework for resource activities fails to provide the level of certainty and strength of protection that is needed to ensure remaining areas of good quality agricultural land are protected from inappropriate development. Read QFF’s Queensland Country Life column HERE.
- Join the QFF Microgrids Project team for a webinar exploring microgrids and how they can be positioned to play a growing role in the future of our energy systems. The webinar will feature guest speaker Scott McGregor, CEO of Birdwood Energy, and will also include project updates and a Q and A session. Register HERE.
- Not all farm work is harvesting! If you have experience or skills that you think would come in handy on a farm, QFF and the FarmReady Hub can connect you with jobs perfectly matched to your skillset. Start your ag adventure now HERE.
- National Cabinet has announced an agreed national quarantine plan accounting for the needs of both returning Australians and Australian industries dependent on migrants for their workforce. Except, sadly, that news appears unlikely to be reported anytime soon. More from QFF industry member Growcom HERE.
- Earlier this month, a bus load of Central Queensland growers headed to St George and Dirranbandi to tour some of the region’s farms and discover new irrigation technologies helping to improve on-farm water use efficiency. More information from Cotton Australia HERE.
- The lockdowns in Queensland have now lifted. To protect the health of Queenslanders there have been some additional restrictions put in place for some parts of the state. For more information, click HERE.
- Primary producers on leased state land in drought declared areas across the state and the flood affected Goondiwindi area have had their land rent deferred to assist with recovery. This assistance has been automatically applied. For more information click HERE.
- The University of Queensland Centre for Natural Gas has conducted in depth research of data and perceptions for key town communities which have hosted coal seam gas development. A town booklet has been published for each of these towns. Download the data and highlights for each of the 11 towns HERE.
- The ChemClear program, which collects and safely dispose of unwanted, unidentifiable, and obsolete chemicals, has recorded its largest ever volume of unwanted agvet chemicals registered for collection in Queensland – over 74,000 litres. Well done!
- The Victorian Farmers Federation has launched the Open Gate Conversations campaign, which delves into how Victoria’s food and fibre is produced and gives consumers the chance to ask questions that will be answered by real farmers HERE.
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