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What has our farm extension advisor been up to in 2025?
How does a farm extension advisor pass their time with the SQNNSW Innovation Hub?  This is part 2 of ‘a day in a life of’.
14 April 2025
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Benefits of boosting farm dam biodiversity
Farm dams are an important asset for property owners, providing water for livestock and irrigation. But they can also have many environmental and biodiversity benefits
28 March 2025
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Can we grow ‘low-methane’ rice in Northern NSW?
Rice cultivation is the second largest source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions each year. That’s because in traditional flooded growing systems, conditions are ideal for
19 March 2025
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The micronutrients helping to build soil carbon in our paddocks
How much carbon is stored in the soils of grazing paddocks across the Northern Rivers region? What factors influence these levels? And can land management
17 March 2025
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Meet the ‘mini beasts’ of regenerative farming
They may be small, but dung beetles are some of the hardest working creatures on farms in the Northern Rivers. They improve soil health, break
3 March 2025
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‘It worries me’: Why we need a deeper connection to soils
LISTEN: Dr John Grant from Southern Cross University talks about soils. “ Soils tend to be hugely neglected or taken for granted. Soils are not
21 January 2025
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12 months in Bingara: Planning, plants, bees and biodiversity
Janelle Schafer is an extension officer for the Lismore Node of the Southern Queensland Northern NSW Innovation hub, based at the Living Classroom in Bingara,
17 December 2024
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Landscape rehydration project will protect farmland from erosion
A landscape rehydration project near Nimbin in Northern NSW will contribute to the landholders’ vision to stabilise the site, protect the catchment from erosion and
9 December 2024
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Producer workshop: Building pasture diversity, soil biology
Lee Fieldhouse from Island Biologicals was the key attraction at Nambucca Valley Landcare’s most recent producer workshop, the first in a series run by local
27 November 2024
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A ‘day in the life’ of a farm extension advisor
How does a farm extension advisor pass their time with the SQNNSW Innovation Hub? Gavin Tinning is based at Southern Cross University and works across
19 November 2024
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New projects helping to improve river catchment
The Lismore Node of the SQNNSW Innovation Hub is contributing to catchment regeneration projects being managed by Rous County Council. Rous’s Watershed Initiative has now
12 November 2024
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Improving pastures and biodiversity on 3000ha cattle farm
Our Bingara Extension Officer, Janelle Schafer, was recently invited to Mitiamo, a family farm at Palla, near Bingara in Northern NSW. It’s the home of
31 October 2024