Climate Resources, Tools & Contacts
Resilience Resources & Tools
Welcome to the Resilience Resources & Tools centre of Climate Great Southern.
Resources and tools have been separated into the following categories:
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- Resilience Tools & Calculators – tools to help measure current groundcover levels, compare against previous seasons or assess your general drought resilience.
- Climate Resources – information on projects and reports relevant to the Great Southern region of WA.
- Industry, Levy & Collaborative Organisation Resources – Resources centres developed by industry, collaborative and levy centres to create & enable resilience.
- Support Organisations – who you can talk to when you need help or assistance.
Stirlings to Coast Farmers welcomes contributions from community, research & extension organisations, and levy/RDC groups with a strong focus on developing climate resilience, managing soils, improving groundcover &/or sustainable production within the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
For contributions to the Climate Great Southern Resources page, please email smartfarms@scfarmers.org.au
Resilience Tools & Calculators
Drought Resilience Self-Assessment Tool (DR.SAT)
A tool to inform and build resilience The Drought Resilience Self-Assessment Tool (DR.SAT) is a free tool that enables farmers to assess their resilience against climate change including drought and other climate risks. Resilience assessments include financial,...
Feedbase Planning and Budgeting Tool
This tool is designed to help you to plan your rotational grazing systems, determine appropriate stocking rates, calculate your pasture growth rates, determine how long your paddocks will last and calculate the most economical ration for your stock. You can now also...
Australian Feedbase Monitor (MLA)
The Australian Feedbase Monitor is a world-first tool to help producers improve grazing management, forage budgeting and ground cover. The Australian Feedbase Monitor provides: access to farm-level rolling monthly pasture biomass estimates for every Livestock...
Stocking Rate Calculator (MLA)
The calculator has been designed to help you work out a paddock's carrying capacity for either cattle or sheep. This means it has been developed to help you figure out how many days a paddock can be grazed by different classes, and different numbers of stock. Access...
Climate Services for Agriculture
Combining historical, seasonal forecast and projected climate data The Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) prototype helps Australian farmers to adapt to climate variability and related trends and thereby improving the viability of their businesses. The CSA...
Australian CliMate
Climate analysis for decision makers CliMate contains ten analyses delivered on: Web App, iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Android devices. Each analysis interrogates long-term climate records to ask questions relating to rainfall, temperature, radiation, and derived...
Ground Cover Monitoring – Rangeland and Pasture Productivity (RaPP)
An online tool for Australian regions. RaPP Map is the spatial data platform for the Rangeland and Pasture Productivity activity, part of the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) initiative. This online tool gives access to a...
Pasture Health Kit
Getting more effective rainfall, and protecting the soil resource The Pasture Health Kit developed by MLA covers methods of managing ground cover, mapping land class units and displays ground cover percentages in individual photographs, allowing landholders to...
Climate & Farm Resilience Resources
Alternative Forage Crops
Summer rainfall in the southwest of WA is happening more frequently. One example of this was where over 90mm of rain fell in Manypeaks, for the period from 1st January to 10th March 2021. There is...
Increasing groundcover to build resilient soils in the Western Fitzgerald Biosphere
The Increasing Groundcover to Build Resilient Soils in the Western Fitzgerald Biosphere project had two overarching objectives. One, to increase soil health across our landscapes by encouraging...
Drought Resilience Self-Assessment Tool (DR.SAT)
A tool to inform and build resilience The Drought Resilience Self-Assessment Tool (DR.SAT) is a free tool that enables farmers to assess their resilience against climate change including drought and...
Feedbase Planning and Budgeting Tool
This tool is designed to help you to plan your rotational grazing systems, determine appropriate stocking rates, calculate your pasture growth rates, determine how long your paddocks will last and...
More Beef from Pastures Manual – Pasture Utilisation
This resource focuses on the utilisation of high-quality green pasture. Increasing the use of green pasture can be the most cost-effective way of lifting productivity for the majority of beef...
Australian Feedbase Monitor (MLA)
The Australian Feedbase Monitor is a world-first tool to help producers improve grazing management, forage budgeting and ground cover. The Australian Feedbase Monitor provides: access to farm-level...
Stocking Rate Calculator (MLA)
The calculator has been designed to help you work out a paddock's carrying capacity for either cattle or sheep. This means it has been developed to help you figure out how many days a paddock can be...
Inland Great Southern Drought Resilience Plan
This community-led plan will ultimately place the Great Southern in the best possible position to adapt, recognise opportunities, and implement mitigation activities with the benefit of both local...
Inland Great Southern Drought Vulnerability Assessment
With climate variability predicted by scientists to continue, research is being undertaken in Australia and around the world into how to mitigate the risks of drought and reduce its social,...
Climate Services for Agriculture
Combining historical, seasonal forecast and projected climate data The Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) prototype helps Australian farmers to adapt to climate variability and related trends...
Australian CliMate
Climate analysis for decision makers CliMate contains ten analyses delivered on: Web App, iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Android devices. Each analysis interrogates long-term climate records to...
National Climate Resilience & Adaptation Strategy
The National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy (the Strategy) positions Australia to better anticipate, manage and adapt to climate change.
Managing soils during and after drought in cropping systems
Except from the Soil CRC Drought can damage soils, reducing yield after the drought breaks. The deterioration in soil condition can have wider economic, social and environmental effects on entire...
Managing soils during and after drought in grazing systems
Excerpt from Soils CRC Website. Drought can damage soils, reducing yield after the drought breaks. The deterioration in soil condition can have wider economic, social and environmental effects on...
Regional Drought Resilience – Community Consultation Report for the Inland Great Southern.
Drought resilience is a key issue for many regional communities throughout Australia. This report summarises the key concerns arising from community consultation carried out for the inland Great...
Defining Drought in Western Australia
By Stanley Mastrantonis In Australia, rainfall percentiles were established as the de-facto measure for classifying meteorological drought and are used as triggers for drought support programs....
South Coast NRM Southern Soils – Soil Erosion
Wind erosion is a natural process that has assisted historically in shaping Australian landscapes. However, soil degradation by wind erosion has been augmented by inadequate or inappropriate land...
South Coast NRM Southern Soils – Climate Change
Climate change is bringing challenges to natural resource management across Australia and the South Coast region of Western Australia is no different. Understanding the risks of projected climate...
South Coast NRM Southern Soils – Soil Health
Healthy soils are essential to produce quality crops and pastures. Soil must be physically, nutritionally and biologically balanced be productive and stable. Soil structure decline, soil...
Ground Cover Monitoring – Rangeland and Pasture Productivity (RaPP)
An online tool for Australian regions. RaPP Map is the spatial data platform for the Rangeland and Pasture Productivity activity, part of the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural...
Australia’s Changing Climate
Our climate is changing and this will affect most of us in some way during our lifetimes. Changes that are currently occurring include rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, sea level rise...
South Coast Snapshot
AIM/PURPOSE The purpose of this report was to capture and present available information on the condition and trend of key natural assets of the South Coast Natural Resource Management (South Coast...
Climate change: impacts and adaptation for agriculture in Western Australia
The Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (DAFWA) is actively working to reduce the vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate variability and change and to increase the...
Climate Change in Australia – Projections for Southern & South-Western Flatlands
This report presents projections of future climate for the Southern and South-Western Flatlands (SSWF) based on our current understanding of the climate system, historical trends and model...
Pasture Health Kit
Getting more effective rainfall, and protecting the soil resource The Pasture Health Kit developed by MLA covers methods of managing ground cover, mapping land class units and displays ground cover...
Industry, Levy & Collaborative Organisations
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research.
Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC)
Grains Research and Development Corporation is an Australian research statutory corporation founded in October 1990 under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act, 1989. It invests in projects and partnerships to drive profitability and productivity in Australia’s grains industry.
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA)
Meat & Livestock Australia is an independent company which regulates standards for meat and livestock management in Australian and international markets. Headquartered in North Sydney, Australia; M&LA works closely with the Australian government, and the meat and livestock industries.
WA Grower Group Alliance (GGA)
GGA aims to shape the WA agricultural industry to grow the national agricultural output to $100 billion by 2030. Grower Groups, working together through the Alliance, are in a unique and potentially catalytic position to drive innovation investment from a ground up perspective. Groups will be at the forefront of innovation and adoption; shaping the future for the benefit of all WA producers.
GGA hosts the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hub.
Future Drought Fund
Drought is an enduring feature of the Australian landscape. It has significant economic, social and environmental impacts.
The $5 billion Future Drought Fund provides secure, continuous funding for drought resilience initiatives. It will help Australian farms and communities prepare for the impacts of drought.
Support Organisations
Beyond Blue
Beyond Blue has been providing supports and services to people in Australia for 20 years.
We are Australia’s most well-known and visited mental health organisation, focused on supporting people affected by anxiety, depression and suicide. We don’t ever take this position for granted nor do we rest on our laurels.
Lifeline
You are not alone. We’re here to listen.
Every 30 seconds, a person in Australia reaches out to Lifeline for help.
We are a national charity providing all Australians experiencing emotional distress with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
We exist so that no person in Australia has to face their darkest moments alone.
Rural West
Rural West provides a free, confidential, mobile, independent financial counselling service to regional small businesses and all primary production enterprises in WA, who are navigating their way through difficult and turbulent times. We’re here for you!
Drought Angels
Drought Angels provides a unique service for which it is has become well known within the rural sector. We are the charity run by big hearts who offer a listening ear, a warm hug and personalised support to farming families who are impacted by natural disasters such as drought, fire, mouse plague & flood.
Regional Mens Health Initiative
The Regional Men’s Health Initiative is a team of people who are passionate about raising awareness of men’s health and wellbeing in regional, rural and remote communities throughout WA.
We encourage men to talk about issues in their lives and identify their true mates and the people they can confide in when times get tough.
iFarmWell
ifarmwell is a free online tool kit to help farmers cope effectively with life’s challenges and get the most out of every day, regardless of the circumstances they face.
Our mission is to equip farmers with new tools that reduce the negative impact that stressful situations have on their lives, so they have more time and energy to focus on the things that make them happy.
This project is jointly funded through Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and Stirlings to Coast Farmers.
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