Terrian NRM are wrapping up the Tully and Johnstone Water Quality Program after three years of collecting water, soil and leaf monitoring data. The data has provided insights to the region’s cane and banana farmers to help inform farm management decisions to improve production and reduce fertiliser runoff from farms in the Tully-Innisfail region and, ultimately, into the Great Barrier Reef.
Terrain NRM’s Charles Hammond said “While this program is ending, it’s important that we continue to build long-term data sets for priority areas so we can continue to link land management, new practices, and even new crops, to water quality.”
The Tully-Johnstone Water Quality Program is funded by the partnership between the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and the Australian Government’s Reef Trust
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