APPLICATIONS for a grants program supporting knowledge and skill building events for Riverland and Murraylands agricultural and horticultural groups are now open.
The 2022-23 Agricultural Knowledge Small Grants program, run by the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board (MRLB), aims to help regional groups achieve natural resources management outcomes for improved sustainable agricultural production.
MRLB regional agricultural landcare facilitator Zoe Starkey encouraged agricultural groups across all production types to apply for a grant.
“Agricultural Knowledge Small Grants are an important way that the landscape board supports farmers in the Murraylands and Riverland to increase knowledge, share innovations and new technology in sustainable farming across all agricultural industries,” she said.
Funded through the federal government’s National Landcare Program and landscape levies, the priority for this round is any agricultural training, skills and knowledge building activities that address the following land management/farming issues:
- managing soil acidification
- reducing the risk of soil and nutrient loss from wind erosion
- opportunities for increasing soil organic carbon
- reducing the risk of soil and nutrient loss from hillslope (water) erosion.
The grants are available to the following pre-existing, formal or informal groups:
- agriculture bureaus
- farming system groups
- agricultural industry groups
- field day committees
- Landcare and Local Action Planning groups
- consultant facilitated farmer groups
- non-government and not for profit organisations working to improve agriculture and native vegetation management.
Guidelines and links to application forms are available on the MRLB website and applications can be submitted until Friday, July 15 at 5pm.