Three Valleys Landcare

Three Valleys Landcare is a group of people who have an interest in caring for the land in the Putty, Howes and Garland Valley areas. The group engages in practices ranging from re-vegetation & erosion control to weed management & improving agricultural productivity through sustainable land management.

We can assist property owners & producers with information on ways to better care for, and get the most productivity from their land and offer advice with weed identification and control methods.

Please feel free to browse through our sections for great information on ways you can improve you land, your farm and your profitability through sustaniable practices.

Three Valleys Landcare Group AGM 2023 TBA

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Land Management

Follow these useful links for information on land management practices

Vertebrate Pests
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/vertebrate-pests

Conservation Farming
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/farm/conservation

Farm Management
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/farm

Livestock Information
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/livestock

Stocking Rate Calculator
http://www.mla.com.au/Publications-tools-and-events/Tools-and-calculators/Stocking-rate-calculator

Managing Wetlands
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/habitat/rehabilitating/fish-friendly-farms/recommendations-for-managing-wetlands-on-farms-in-inland-new-south-wales/WoF-Recommendations_Final.pdf

Weed Control

Solutions to weed problems encountered in the three valleys area –

Please select either Noxious or other weeds to find fact sheets containing information on control and eradication.

If there is a weed that we haven’t covered in the fact sheets that is present in the valleys, please let us know so we can identify it and post a fact sheet for all to see.

Noxious Weeds

Below is list of noxious weeds that can commonly be found in the Three Valleys Areas.
Follow the links to the fact sheets (DPI website). If there’s a noxious weed that we have missed or you would like included please let us know and we will find a fact sheet to post. The DPI website contains information fact sheets on all declared noxious weeds.

African lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/african-lovegrass

Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus agg. species)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/blackberry

Fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/fireweed

Giant Parramatta grass (Sporobolus fertilus)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/giant-parramatta-grass

Giant Parramatta Grass (GPG) – NSW Government Primary Industries Beef Newsletter June 2011

Giant rat’s tail grass (Sporobolus pyramidalis and S. natalensis)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/giant-rats-tail-grass

Lantana (Lantana camara)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/lantana

Privet – broad-leaf, small-leaf and European (Ligustrum species)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/privet

Serrated tussock (Nassella trichotoma)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/serrated-tussock

Camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/camphor-laurel

Tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
http://www.northwestweeds.nsw.gov.au/tree_of_heaven.htm

Noogoora burr (Xanthium species)
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles/californian-burr