Land Stewardship

About 45% of the North East region is privately owned land. Livestock grazing is the main primary industry, with more than half the region's agricultural land under pasture. There have been considerable increases in the development of horticultural enterprises such as hops, grapes, apples, olives, nuts, berries and other fruit. Softwood plantation forestry is also a significant contributor to the gross value of the region's production.

The CMA's Land Program is a critical component of implementing the North East Regional Catchment Strategy. It is an integrated program that encourages and assists landholders and community groups to develop sustainable and profitable management systems.

It brings together current knowledge and understanding of broad catchment issues and ecological processes, groundwater processes, soil health, techniques for salinity control and whole farm business planning.

Take control of soil health on your farm - Apply now for our new soil carbon programme

This project is supported by the North East Catchment Management Authority, through funding from the Australian Government's Caring for our Country.

Investigate how you can reduce input costs, find new ways to increase soil productivity and understand the benefits of soil carbon. Eligible participants may qualify for a free soil test and agronomic advice.

Take control of soil health on your farm.pdf  (189 KB)

 

Environmental Management Systems

The North East Catchment Management Authority (CMA) is committed to environmental management systems (EMS) as a tool for land holders to assess their environmental risks, and develop action plans to address those risks.

The CMA uses two web-based programmes to enable land holders to have on-going access to systems, to help them manage their environmental issues within a total management process. To this end the CMA has free training to landholder groups (minimum of 6 per group) in the use of the web based products as well as on-going refresher courses for past participants.

For more information, please Contact Us, or checkout the EMS Newsletter.