News from Local Land Services

Motorists in the Boorowa region are advised that there will be travelling stock on the roads starting from late April to May. Motorists are being reminded to slow down and stay alert when approaching livestock grazing or being moved along public roads in travelling stock reserves (TSRs).

Landholders and communities in western NSW are being urged to prepare for extensive flooding and isolation throughout April and May as significant flows from Queensland continue to move down the river systems into NSW.

Northern Tablelands and North West Local Land Services will begin a wild dog and fox aerial baiting program.

Local Land Services is inviting ratepayers to have their say on the way community representatives are elected to its local boards.

With deteriorating seasonal conditions across the Central, Western and Far West regions of NSW, Local Land Services is reminding livestock producers of the potential for hidden costs when purchasing stock feed.

While the forecasted high winds and rainfall from ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred thankfully passed without significant impact on the Hunter Region, Hunter Local Land Services is reminding landholders that flood preparation is essential, especially for those living on floodplains.

As part of the Minns Labor Government’s commitment to strengthening rural and regional communities the Government is delivering more than $5 million in projects to protect threatened species and boost climate resilience in the state’s far west.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and two—in this case—speaks volumes about the positive impacts of the NSW Government’s Feral Pig and Pest Program.

Landholders are seeing the on-ground benefits of the NSW Government’s continued investment in feral pig control, with thinning mobs in western NSW.

The Hunter Local Land Services District Veterinarian team would like to advise cattle producers that Three Day Sickness (Bovine Ephemeral Fever or BEF) has been confirmed this month by laboratory testing near Wingham. Suspect cases have also been reported in the vicinity of Hannam Vale, Mitchells Islands and Gloucester.