Customisation of the Pilbara GLM Workshop

Summary

The objective of this project was to have Pilbara beef producers develop, through participative learning and demonstration, an improved understanding of issues relating to natural resource management and production potential of their leases and their management.  This would be achieved by application of the appropriate principles and concepts outlined in a regionally-specific Grazing Land Management (GLM) package.   This, in turn, would support more sustainable cattle production, particularly with regard to issues such as working within climatic constraints (particularly significant inter-annual rainfall variation), dealing with appropriate property development scenarios and generally optimizing financial return within the constraints set by the Pilbara environment. 
That a package specific to the Pilbara is of benefit to Pilbara producers comes from the requirement that the package must be relevant to the local land systems and climatic areas of the Pilbara, as many of the management decisions taken on individual properties are done so because of the nature of the resources specific to that property. While the fundamental principles of land management are similar through each of the regions for which GLM packages have been developed, the GLM package for each region is stand-alone and tailored to the management of specific land and pasture systems within each region.