This ‘3 Year Plan’ presents strategic direction to ensure Wheatbelt NRM effectively responds to national, state and regional NRM needs. This will be achieved by engaging our community to actively support and progress our strategic objectives. This ‘3 Year Plan’ is supported each year by an Operations Plan that sets out how resources will be allocated and utilised in progressing the strategic objectives in this document.
The Wheatbelt Regional NRM Strategy guides NRM investment priorities within the region. The regional community provided important guidance to the development of the strategy, which reflects their values and understanding of the environment they live in and know.
Australia has an incredible diversity of bird species, with 898 recorded, including vagrants or accidental visitors and introduced species. Of this total, Western Australia has 550 species, 17 of which are found only in Western Australia. The Avon River Basin has a remarkable 224 recorded species - over 25 percent of the national total.
We kicked off January 2022 with the new Aboriginal NRM Action plan, Koort Boodjar Mia Boodjar (my Heartland my Homeland), and Steph, the new Project Coordinator, started with the team.
Our 2023 calendar has just arrived hot off the press (order your copy here). Each year we pick a theme unique to our special corner of the world, and this year we wanted to highlight an often overlooked but crucial link in our ecosystem: the noble Tree.
Our team was lucky enough to attend the 8th National NRM conference a few weeks back, hosted by our friends at South West Catchments Council in Margaret River.
Wheatbelt NRM was proud to have the opportunity to host the National Soil Advocate the Hon. Dr Penny Wensley AC on a field trip to Masonville Farm in East Brookton with Kane and Paula Page in late September.
Twenty landholders across the Wheatbelt have secured small grants of up to $2,500 to plant fodder and increase groundcover on their mixed farming properties as part of the National Landcare Program funded project, Optimising Fodder Options in Mixed Farming Systems.
Wheatbelt’s 2022 soil health champion, Rob Hetherington of Lake Camm, believes that soil health is the backbone of agriculture, irrespective of where you are in the world.
If you didn’t make it to Talkin’ Soil Health held in August in York, you missed out, as it was a sell-out at 200 participants.Feedback has been that it was not just the biggest, but also the best event held yet.‘Building Resilience from the Sub
We are still receiving samples from farmers across the Wheatbelt of Dung Beetles to be mapped to see what seasonal patterns we have throughout the Wheatbelt.
The Soil CRC are conducting a study to investigate cybersecurity in the Australian Agricultural sector from the perspective of people working in the sector.
As the weather continues to get warmer and drier, it is the beginning of native seed collecting season for our Noongar Boodja Ranger’s team and they’re already off to a great start!
With harvest well and truly underway, keep an eye out for malleefowl, who are vulnerable to extinction, while you’re out in the paddock or driving through the Wheatbelt.