Lambing rates in western Queensland are the best they have been in a decade, despite more than eight years of drought, and graziers say it is almost certainly due to exclusion fencing.
ABC Rural: Maddelin McCoskerThe following year, the combination of fencing and rain meant Mr Chandler could join his ewes.
The lucky season for Oma Station came in March, when more than 250 millimetres fell on the parched land.In June this year the joined ewes were scanned, and the results — a 93 per cent conception rate — were some of the best Mr Chandler has seen in years."We've got country that's behind the fence, and it has rained," Mr Chandler said.
"We've immediately gone back to huge conception rates and the ewes keeping the lambs alive but this is the first year in 10 that the season has gone with Oma. "Because the fence is there, you can prove what numbers you can get back to really quickly [so] it proves the case for the funding."RAPAD is confident more funding would be forthcoming for graziers who missed out in earlier rounds.
Senior regional development officer Morgan Gronold said he had been having conversations with all levels of governments in an attempt to facilitate more funding."But we are doing everything we can to get in the ear of government to say 'look, this is probably one of the most significant projects to happen out here for decades'."From the government perspective around return of investment, it is a fantastic model.
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