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premium_icon How you can help restore the Great Barrier Reef

Environmental experts say Mackay community needs to band together to fight one of the biggest threats to the reef.

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30th Sept. 2019 3:09 PM

The Mackay Conservation Group forum will explore how individuals and industries can work together to resolve one of the leading threats to the reef.

Predators, dealers get less than a battling grazier

Grazier taken down in court for trying to survive, criminals walk free for much worse.

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10th Sept. 2019 8:09 AM

FIGHTING HARD: Charleville grazier Dan McDonald (right) with Kennedy MP Bob Katter outside the District Court in Brisbane, last week. Mr McDonald made a last-ditch attempt to overturn his criminal conviction for cutting down trees on his drought-hit property so he could feed starving cattle.

premium_icon Digging deeper into soil health

While most attendees bring paper and pencils - organisers say it was not unheard of for some people to bring 'a bucket full...

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16th Aug. 2019 2:08 PM

SOIL SOLUTIONS: The textural qualities of soil tell much about its make-up. Soil Land Water agroecologist David Hardwick investigates a sample.

premium_icon Graziers want answers to infestation: 'We need them now'

EMOTIONS ran high as dozens of graziers gathered for an emergency Biosecurity Queensland meeting about the Western Downs...

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19th July 2019 4:07 PM

Biosecurity QLD cattle tick meeting at Chinchilla RSL 16/7/19.

premium_icon 16 first-timers in record-breaking Gympie cattle contest

Grazing families from throughout the Gympie region, out to Monto and Gayndah and down to the Lockyer and Brisbane Valleys...

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09th May 2019 10:05 AM

Leon, Emma and Sheryl Franz with their entries in the Gympie Carcass Classic.

premium_icon How this Mackay group plans to go up against Adani

'With almost 60 per cent of Queensland still in drought, we can't afford to put at risk the water that so many livelihoods...

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30th April 2019 12:04 AM

Graziers fear opening up the Galilee Basin to coal mining will bring the cattle industry to its knees.

Hay runners head north to assist with flood crisis

The convoy of road trains are headed north to assist graziers in the flood crisis.

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18th Feb. 2019 9:02 AM

HELP ON THE WAY: The Burrumbuttock Hay Runners' huge convoy heads north to assist graziers affected by the North Queensland floods.

premium_icon 500,000 death count could grow, experts warn

As graziers face a 10-year battle to bring back valuable bloodlines after herds were decimated by the recent floods, they...

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18th Feb. 2019 8:02 AM

Heartbreak for graziers as floodwaters receded to reveal dead cattle. An estimated 500,000 cows perished. Picture: Nigel Hallett

Campdraft community supports fellow graziers up north

The funds will go towards those affected by the northern Queensland floods.

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15th Feb. 2019 4:02 PM

CHARITY: Campdraft fans like these in the restricted open line up from the 2018 Proston Golden Spurs Campdraft will be supporting flood victims in the next draft.

Ex-Premier Anna Bligh in Roma to meet with graziers

Anna Bligh meets with banking staff and graziers in recent visit to Roma.

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25th Jan. 2019 9:01 AM

POWERFUL VOICES: CEO of the Australian Banking Association and former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh met with Suncorp banker Forrest Keinzley in Roma on Monday.