Quickchecks

Product Information

Want a quick an easy way to measure what is going well on your land to clearly identify any issues that may need action? Quickchecks - a useful new guide for woolgrowers, will provide you with the tools to measure the health of your pastures (including ground cover), soils, woody vegetation, farm watercourses, paddock production levels and birds.

Quickchecks will assist you to:

• Track the changes which occur over time on your land
• Improve land health from whatever the starting point
• Use this valuable information as part of normal decision making to improve business performance
• Examine the current condition of your land

\With Quickchecks, land monitoring is used to check progress towards your own individual Farm Landscape Goal. As each farm is different, you design your own monitoring program relevant to your own interests and needs. Working out your long term view of the farm landscape and deciding what, where, how and when to monitor are important decisions covered in this manual. Quickchecks has been developed in conjunction with 35 woolgrowers in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia and incorporates principles that are widely applicable. The monitoring can be used to positively impact on land management decisions and, over time, business performance. The approach is quick and results in practical information , which will help with tough management decisions. If you are interested in the health of your land and long term profitability, then Quickchecks is for you!