When Doris Baylis and her husband took over the lease of Mataranka Station in 2016, they knew they would be busy - busy with infrastructure maintenance and cattle work, that is.
What they didn't bargain for was an annual, ongoing problem with wildfires.
It was, you could say, a true initiation by fire.
After losing almost 12,000ha to fires in 2017 and 2018, which equated to 15% of the properties grazing land, they knew they could no longer rely on traditional fire management.
So, they entered a Practice Change Partnership with Territory Natural Resource Management.
A Practice Change Partnership supports farmers to implement sustainable agriculture practices that will help protect native vegetation and biodiversity, and support the productivity of their operation.
These may be in the form of strategic weed and fire management plans, a change in water points, implementing new ag technology and different grazing methods for example.
The project is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.
My name in Steph Coombes, and in this episode I travelled to Mataranka Station to learn about how the Practice Change Partnership between Mataranka Station and Territory NRM works, and what the outcomes have been so far.
This episode is supported by the Australian Government's National Landcare Program.
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