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Barossa Improved Grazing Group (BIGG) has teamed up with the Grassland Society of Southern Australia Inc (GSSA) and the AW Howard Trust to offer up to five young people free attendance to the upcoming BIGG 2025 Annual Conference Moving Towards Greener Pastures on Thursday 13 February at Lambert Estate, Angaston. The bursary is available to […]

Livestock producers, agribusiness and industry supporters from the Barossa and surrounding areas are invited to join together to connect and learn at the Barossa Improved Grazing Group (BIGG) Annual Conference on Thursday 13 February 2025, Lambert Estate, Angaston. This year’s theme ‘Moving Towards Greener Pastures’ promises to offer the local livestock industry an important opportunity

BIGG received the Best Rural Communicator Award announced at the Rural Media & Communicators SA/NT (RMC) awards dinner on Friday 6 December 2024. The award recognises a government or private sector campaign that has successfully enhanced connections and relationships between rural communities and organizations, government departments, or agencies. Titled Strengthening Rural Connections: The BIGG Impact

Researchers, industry leaders and producers joined together to learn from local pasture trials and demonstrations in recent weeks: The University of Adelaide Trial Site BIGG facilitated a visit to The University of Adelaide’s trial site at Mt Crawford on October 18. Researchers Hannah Griffiths and Tshewang Dorji discussed the performance of serradellas compared to clover and medics on sandy soil.

BIGG Communications Intern and University of Adelaide student, Jasmin Ireland, shares her experience attending the Perennial Pasture Systems 2024 Conference in Ararat, Victoria: As an Agricultural Science student who is hoping to one day venture into the world of farm management, the conference offered valuable insights and practical strategies that I am excited to implement

BIGG, in collaboration with the University of Adelaide, recently conducted a series of student bus tours visiting Barossa and surrounds producers and industry providers. The tours offered students a unique opportunity to gain in-person insights into sustainable and resilient farming practices, career opportunities in agriculture, and the real-world effects of drought. The first tour occurred

Encouraged by a strong start to the Core Strength: Pilates for Rural Living initiative, BIGG in partnership with Pilates Barossa is offering a second five-week class program starting Tuesday 15 October. The new 55-minute mat pilates class is being offered at 7am on a Tuesday as an alternative time slot to accommodate varying preferences, whilst the existing

BIGG has recently commenced two new long-term pasture programs thanks to funding from the Federal Government’s Future Drought Fund: Multi-species perennial pastures This trial project was sown at Matt Neldner’s (pictured) Marananga property in late July with the aim to determine the productivity of perennial based multi-species pastures. The trial treatments range from a simple

14 BIGG producers attended the first of four AgTech eID Producer Group workshops on Wednesday the 21 August at Nuriootpa. Hosted by BIGG’s Deb Scammell the workshop was an invaluable event for local producers to establish their breeding priorities, and to expand their knowledge on how eID’s can play a role in their enterprise. Workshop