Smart Grazing Stronger Lands

Smart Grazing, Stronger Lands helps pastoralists and land managers adopt proven climate‑smart tools and technologies to improve grazing management and ecosystem health across Australia’s southern Rangelands.

In NSW, the Smart Grazing, Stronger Lands project is focused on making it easy for pastoralists to use the GEOGLAM Rangeland and Pasture Productivity (RaPP) satellite mapping tool to predict groundcover changes on farm and trigger management decisions like feeding, selling stock, and adjusting stocking rates.

Southern NSW Innovation Hub is working with  DustWatch Australia (Dr John Leys), CSIRO, and NSW Local Land Services to make the RaPP technology more accessible and user-friendly so that Rangelands farmers can plan ahead with confidence and make decisions that are good for their businesses, even when they’re facing dry times.

Nationally, Smart Grazing, Stronger Lands brings together regional natural resource management (NRM) groups, producer organisations, experts, and community partners to overcome barriers to adoption, including:

  • Limited time
  • Low confidence in technology use
  • Need for hands‑on support

Through demonstration sites and tailored local support - including training, peer‑to‑peer learning, and expert guidance - the project builds confidence and capacity, showcasing proven real‑world tools.

Smart Grazing, Stronger Lands expands on the successful cross‑Hub pilot program Managing Rangelands for Drought Resilience, which showed how digital tools and management systems can be applied effectively on‑farm to strengthen rangeland resilience.

Project lead

South Australian Drought Hub

Project partners

Project funding

The Smart Grazing, Stronger Lands project is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program under the Natural Heritage Trust.