Projects

AIMS works with individual graziers and grazier groups, government and private organisations from across NSW and every state and territory across Australia.  From the arid rangelands to the tablelands and high rainfall coastal regions the principles promoted by AIMS apply in every situation.

Organisations which AIMS has provided services to include a number of Local Land Services (and previous CMAs), Murray Darling Basin Commission, Meat & Livestock Australia, World Wide Fund for Nature, Greening Australia, National Parks & Wildlife Service, SoilCare, many Landcare and other natural resource management groups.

Examples of recently completed projects include:

• Drought Preparedness and Holistic Land Planning.  For, Tweed Shire Council.
• Regenerative Agriculture in Practice. For, Lower Blackwood Landcare, WA.
• Farming for Change, workshop series. For,  Tamworth Regional Landcare Association.
• Native grass species identification, click to view the video series.  For, Northern Tablelands LLS.
• Grazing management for soil health. For North Queensland Dry Tropics, Charters Towers, Qld 
• Understanding our Soils – Increasing Adoption and Innovation in Soil Management For North Coast LLS, Lismore, NSW 
• Gaining Ground – Grazing management for soil health. For, Terrain NRM Townsville, Qld
• Adaptive pasture management and utilisation to enhance pasture production and soil health.  For, Hunter LLS, NSW  
• Vegetation survey of grazed rangelands in the Cunnamulla district  For SLM Partners
• Agricultural Productivity for Regional Prosperity: An Integrated Grazing Systems Approach.  Issues paper prepared for Namoi LLS.
• New approaches to weed management – “blue sky” thinking with plants and animals. Review prepared for MLA.
• Sustainable Grazing Land Management Project.  For, Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority.
• ‘Reducing critical threats to Natural Grasslands’ series of presentations For, Namoi Catchment Management Authority.
• Improved grazing management to build soil carbon on Upper Manning grazing lands. For, Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority.
• Grass Species Identification training.  For, Namoi Catchment Management Authority.
• Tablelands and Coastal Landscapes Sustainable Grazing Management Project. For, Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority.
• Pasture and Grazing Workshops for Tablelands and Slopes.  For, Border Rivers – Gwydir Catchment Management Authority.
• Optimising wool production and profitability in Mid-North South Australian riparian areas. For, South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board.
• Managing native pastures in South Australia for improved animal production and native biodiversity. For Mid-North Grasslands Working Group, Clare, South Australia.
• Using grazing management to improve native grasses of non-arable pastures in the mid-north of South Australia – Field trial on 8 properties. For Mid-North Grasslands Working Group, Clare, South Australia.

Botanical surveys

• Threatened species site assessments and management plans.  A survey of TSR sites. For, Northern Tablelands LLS, Inverell, NSW. 
• Floristic survey to determine the impact of clearing of Cypress pine (Callitris glaucophylla) on pasture regeneration on ‘Braefield’, Gunnedah.  For  Liverpool Plains Land Management Committee.
• Lippia (Phyla canescens) distribution and management. For Murray Darling Basin Commission through Cotton Cooperative Research Centre.
• Loss of habitat and native flora due to expansion of the weed Lippia (Phyla canescens).  Preparation of application to list as a Key Threatening Process.  For, World Wide Fund for Nature.  
• Vegetation and Floristics of Culgoa National Park. For, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.