Program Objectives and Partners

Land, Water & Wool program objectives were:

  • To identify key natural resource management issues from woolgrowers' perspectives and understand their perceptions, needs, priorities and practices.
  • To increase woolgrowers’ awareness of and motivation to tackle natural resource management issues.
  • To provide woolgrowers with the knowledge and practical tools to address key natural resource management issues through productive and profitable solutions;
  • To increase the capacity of woolgrowers to apply natural resource management innovations within their commercial enterprise.
  • To position the wool industry to reduce its environmental impact and to use environmental performance as a strategic marketing asset it if so chooses.

How Land, Water & Wool worked towards these objectives:

  • Worked with growers to paddock-test new tools and approaches in productive natural resource management to ensure they were practical and sensible on commercial farms;
  • Undertook Land, Water & Wool projects within the reality of commercial wool production;
  • Strongly associated Land, Water & Wool projects with the woolgrowers who contributed to identifying the research questions and were interested in monitoring and participating in the project;
  • Worked with existing groups and networks of groups. For example Bestwool 2010 in Victoria and Bestprac in the pastoral zone; and
  • Supported networks of existing grower groups to trial and test productive use of saline land.

Supporting Program Partners