MEDIA FEATURING BALALA STATION

ABC - Back Roads

Uralla, NSW
Series 10 - Episode 23

Heather Ewart heads to the New England region in NSW and the former gold town of Uralla. Now the locals are uncovering a different kind of treasure, finding riches everywhere and using that to invest in a sustainable future.


Release of baby Bell’s Turtles
Credit: University of New England
and UNE PhD candidate Lou Streeting

Balala Station Case Study
Credit: Soils For Life

Custodian of land and animals
Credit: Elisabeth Van Delden

Agmentation AgTech Stories - Richard Daugherty

Credit: UNE SMART region incubator


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Monitoring our land and its ecosystem functions.
Richard Daugherty

22/05/2020

Soil Health

Photosynthesis for Biology. Balala Station Autumn 2020. Grasses; Cereals; Legumes; Brassica’s; Chenopods.

06/03/2020

Paddock to Cover Crop

From bare, hard packed containment paddock to a lush cover crop. Regenerative farming at Balala.

26/02/2020

Paddocks 'painted green'

The one thing livestock farmer Richard Daugherty misses about the depths of one of Australia’s worst-ever droughts.

10/12/2019

Regenerative Agriculture

Owned and operated by Richard Daugherty and Sarah Burrows, a self-replacing Merino flock and Dohne fat lamb enterprise is run at Balala.

27/03/2020

Photography

Richard Daugherty, in what spare time he gets, is also a photographer.

10/09/2018

Resurrecting Balala

“The challenge is to beat and reverse climate change by learning how to farm holistically, sustainably and regeneratively.

20/08/2018

Farm Profitability & Biodiversity

Exploring the potential for improving environmental, social and economic outcomes in agriculture.

28/03/2018

Endangered Bells Turtle

Farmers like Richard Daugherty are joining efforts to prevent the demise of the species. "We know that foxes eat many turtle nests,"