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New Industries Development Program (NIDP)

Round 16 of the Pilot Commercialisation Projects Fund is now open and closes 26 September. This grant helps agricultural, processed food, fisheries and forestry businesses to grow by providing grants to take new products, services or technologies to market.

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World Rural Women's Day Brisbane - Sonya Maley Guest Speaker

The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&F) and Queensland Business Review (QBR) Women in Business invite guests to participate in the annual WRWD agribusiness breakfast on Friday, 12 October. This year's speaker is Sonya Maley from Far North Queensland, Queensland 's 2007 Rural Woman of the Year.

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Secondhand tree planting equipment available for sale

One of the Private Forestry NQ members has some items for sale which are superfluous to her needs since planting trees utilising the Jack Mitchell system of farm forestry.

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Vision FNQ 2025- Forum findings
What do we want FNQ to look like in 20 years time? What is our vision of this area's future? These are the questions addressed in a public forum on 11th July @ the TANKS as part of the 2007 emPower Energy Fest. About forty people participated in a lively brainstorming session and together we came up with a wonderful vision of what we would FNQ to look like by 2025, which was supplied to the FNQ 2025 planners.
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How to choose native plants to replace fleshy-fruited weeds
From the Weeds CRC's latest research on environmental weed management.

Invasive species are regarded as second only to habitat loss as a threat to birds in Australia, so new web-based tools to help choose replacement plants for fleshy-fruited weeds will be a welcome relief to our feathered friends.

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Home and Garden WaterWise Rebate Schemes
The Home WaterWise Rebate Scheme and the Home Garden WaterWise Rebate Scheme are Queensland Government incentive packages designed to help Queenslanders make their homes and gardens more water efficient. The programs include all of Queensland.
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National Threatened Species Day
September the 7th, National Threatened Species Day for 2007, is fast approaching. The Threatened Species and Ecosystems Unit, EPA, is co-ordinating events across Queensland during Threatened Species Week 2nd to 8th September. This year the theme will be a focus on aquatic plant and animal species, and the slogan will be Get off our backs!

You are all invited to get involved to raise awareness about the key messages, and see where this theme can be highlighted in existing work.

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Invitation to Growers to Participate in a Trial of California Coastal Redwood

One of the members of Private Forestry NQ, Mr. Wade Cornell, has some California Redwood trees for sale to anyone interested in participating in a planting "Trial of California coastal Redwood (Sequopia Sempervirens)". There is potential for a commercial outcome resulting from these trials.

 

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