Enhancing farm dams
Learn how enhancing farm dams improves water quality and biodiversity, increases livestock production, reduces evaporation & silt run-off.
Join us at The Living Classroom at Bingara and see our demonstration site for our Enhancing Farm Dams project.
Improving farm dams can have many benefits for producers.
Fencing improves water quality and halves methane emissions from fertiliser and manure run-off.
The improved water quality leads to an increase in livestock production, as livestock eat more when their drinking water is clean.
Biodiversity is also boosted, especially when we connect a fenced farm dam to an existing wildlife corridor, such as the remnant of Box Gum Grassy Woodland at The Living Classroom.
We can reduce evaporation by planting windbreaks on the windward side. Surrounding groundcover, such as grasses and sedges, reduce silt-run-off into the dam.
The surrounding habitat, trees, shrubs and groundcovers provide habitat for birds, whilst in dam sedges and rushes are a great home for frogs.
Want to help at the demonstration site before the field day?
A working bee will be held on 30th March, 2026, 9am-12pm. For more information contact Janelle Schafer on 0408 659 587 or email janelle.schafer@scu.edu.au
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The project is an initiative of the Lismore Node of the SQNNSW Hub. The Hub receives funding from the Federal Government's Future Drought Fund.
Learn how enhancing farm dams improves water quality and biodiversity, increases livestock production, reduces evaporation & silt run-off.
Join us at The Living Classroom at Bingara and see our demonstration site for our Enhancing Farm Dams project.
Improving farm dams can have many benefits for producers.
Fencing improves water quality and halves methane emissions from fertiliser and manure run-off.
The improved water quality leads to an increase in livestock production, as livestock eat more when their drinking water is clean.
Biodiversity is also boosted, especially when we connect a fenced farm dam to an existing wildlife corridor, such as the remnant of Box Gum Grassy Woodland at The Living Classroom.
We can reduce evaporation by planting windbreaks on the windward side. Surrounding groundcover, such as grasses and sedges, reduce silt-run-off into the dam.
The surrounding habitat, trees, shrubs and groundcovers provide habitat for birds, whilst in dam sedges and rushes are a great home for frogs.
Want to help at the demonstration site before the field day?
A working bee will be held on 30th March, 2026, 9am-12pm. For more information contact Janelle Schafer on 0408 659 587 or email janelle.schafer@scu.edu.au
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.
.
The project is an initiative of the Lismore Node of the SQNNSW Hub. The Hub receives funding from the Federal Government's Future Drought Fund.
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Highlights
- 6 hours
- In person
Location
1A Narrabri Rd
1A Narrabri Road
Bingara, NSW 2404
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