New tool for sustainable grazing land management in Queensland

Issued: 13 Dec 2023

The Queensland Government is helping graziers improve their land’s sustainability and productivity while protecting the reef, through the MyFORAGE interactive online land management tool.

MyFORAGE is an extension of the already successful FORAGE system, which provides a cutting-edge platform empowering landholders, consultants, and other stakeholders to make more informed decisions on sustainable land management practices and environmental protection.

The interactive interface of MyFORAGE allows users to adjust and modify input information which enables the delivery of better pasture growth, ground cover and long-term carrying capacity estimations at both property and paddock-scales.

It enables the user to draw paddock boundaries for property management planning, and to customise their property and paddocks for aspects including land types, water points, pasture type and land condition, making it even more valuable for decision-making.

FORAGE, which has been providing easy-to-understand PDF property scale reports for the past 12 years, has already delivered over 230,000 free reports for various stakeholders. These reports provide information on ground cover, pasture growth, and a range of other topics.

Explainer/fast fact and/or further information

The Queensland Government has funded the tool’s development through the Drought and Climate Adaptation (DCAP) and REEF Water Quality programs.

To learn more about MyFORAGE please visit the Long Paddock website.

Users can request the following reports for their property:

  • Long-Term Carrying Capacity report
  • Indicative Land Type report
  • Ground Cover report
  • Regional Comparison Ground Cover report
  • Rainfall Pasture by Land Type report
  • Pasture Growth Alert report
  • Indicative Soil Phosphorus report
  • Fire Scar report
  • Foliage Projective Cover report
  • Erodible Soils report
  • Crop Frequency report.

What can MyFORAGE do for my property?

There’s a number of ways you can adjust the base property mapped area. For example, you can customise FORAGE reports by setting up your property and paddock boundary configurations. This can be done in three ways:

  • add lot(s) on plan, then edit to create paddocks
  • import spatial/GIS files of your property and paddocks and then edit
  • draw paddocks from knowledge of features or a printed map and then edit* (make a full farm paddock map, or just create a single paddock polygon).