Support for Queensland graziers

One of the first steps to improve your grazing and pasture management is understanding and managing your land condition.

Budgeting and financial management

• Breedcow and Dynama herd budgeting software: plan, evaluate and improve your profitability and financial management.
• Agbiz farm budgeting tools: calculate profit, construct budgets and manage cash flows.
• Grazing economics publications: assess the costs and benefits of different management practices.
• Grazing Futures: recover from drought and prepare for future droughts as an everyday part of your business.
• FutureBeef tools and calculators.
• Meat and Livestock Australia tools and calculators.

Biosecurity

• Learn about the legal requirements for moving livestock.
• Create your on-farm biosecurity management plan to reduce the risk of introducing or spreading an infectious disease, pest or weed.
• Encourage visitors to use the Farm Check-In app when entering your agricultural property to minimise the spread of pests and diseases.
• Find out if you need to be registered as a biosecurity entity.

Improve your skills

Our extension officers can help you:

• analyse your land and pasture and develop a land management plan for your property
• implement grazing systems that are profitable and productive
• reduce nutrient and sediment run-off into local waterways and the Reef
• connect to industry specialists
• find out about the latest research.

Join industry events and programs:

• Contact your Regional Natural Resource Management organisation for local events, training and support.
• Meat and Livestock Australia's EDGEnetwork offers practical learning opportunities to improve your livestock enterprises.
• FutureBeef workshops about tools and skills in business management, sustainable grazing, animal nutrition, health and genetics.
• BeefUp forum covering Meat and Livestock Australia's research and development projects and the latest technologies in the red meat industry.
• The Advancing Beef Leaders program for emerging producer and community leaders.

Stay informed

• Sign up to DAF's agricultural newsletters.
• Follow Queensland Agriculture on Facebook for the latest news.
• Contact your industry association to stay up-to-date with the latest research and best practice.