Maps and facts
NSW people and produce
See the interactive map to find out more about primary products and natural resource management in NSW.
Gold and other metallic minerals
- Sofala, Hill End and Stuart Town gold deposit map (available for purchase)
- Major NSW metallic mineral mines and projects map
Links
- Australian forests (www.australianforests.org.au)
Comprehensive maps that help describe the types and composition of forests around Australia. - Australian Mines Atlas (www.australianminesatlas.gov.au)
Create a map of Australia's mines, and choose what information to display: historic mines, current mines, mineral deposits, infrastructure, geography, and more. - Geoscience Australia (www.ga.gov.au)
Mineral maps of Australia, including copper, diamond, gold, lead-zinc, manganese and nickel. - MinView
NSW online mapping tool for mineral resources.
Image library
See the Landlearn NSW image library slideshow or photostream (Flickr).
Factsheets
Soil
- How to compost on farm
- Improving soil moisture
- Soil acidity and liming
- Waterwise on the farm: soil texture
Vegetables
- Commodity growing guides - Cabbage
- Commodity growing guides - Eggplant
- Commodity growing guides - Field lettuce production
- Commodity growing guides - Growing garlic in NSW
- Commodity growing guides - Onion
- Commodity growing guides - Snow peas and sugar snap peas
- The greenhouse
- Vegetable integrated pest management
- Best practice guide for growing vegetables
Pigs
- Alternative farrowing accommodation in the pork industry
- Basic pig husbandry - gilts and sows
- Basic pig husbandry - grower herd
- Basic pig husbandry - the boar
- Basic pig husbandry - the litter
- Basic pig husbandry - the weaner
- Breed of pigs - Duroc
- Breed of pigs - Landrace
- Breed of pigs - Large White
- Deep-litter housing for pigs
- Pig branding in NSW
- Pigs as pets
- Responsible pig ownership - information for local councils and pig owners
- Understanding the pork industry
Cattle
- Beef cattle breeding systems
- Beef cattle vaccines
- Blackleg in cattle
- Cancer eye in cattle
- Castrating calves
- Cattle breeds: Africander
- Cattle breeds: Angus
- Cattle breeds: Beef Shorthorn
- Cattle breeds: Belmont Red
- Cattle breeds: Boran
- Cattle breeds: Braford
- Cattle breeds: Brahman
- Cattle breeds: Brangus
- Cattle breeds: Charolais
- Cattle breeds: Chiangus
- Cattle breeds: Chianina
- Cattle breeds: Devon
- Cattle breeds: Droughtmaster
- Cattle breeds: Galloway
- Cattle breeds: Gelbvieh
- Cattle breeds: Hereford
- Cattle breeds: Limousin
- Cattle breeds: Maine Anjou
- Cattle breeds: Murray Grey
- Cattle breeds: Poll Hereford
- Cattle breeds: Romagnola
- Cattle breeds: Santa Gertrudis
- Cattle breeds: Shorthorn
- Cattle breeds: Simmental
- Cattle breeds: South Devon
- Cattle breeds: Tuli
- Cattle lice
- Cattle ticks
- Cattle worm control - the basics
- Clostridial diseases in cattle
- Dehorning cattle
- Enterotoxaemia in cattle
- Frame scoring of beef cattle
- Full hand feeding of beef cattle - management
- Full hand feeding of beef cattle - quantities
- Grain poisoning of cattle and sheep
- Grass tetany in cattle
- Handling Bos indicus cattle
- Handling cattle
- Leptospirosis in cattle herds
- Live beef cattle assessment
- Liver fluke disease in sheep and cattle
- Market specifications for beef cattle
- Muscle scoring beef cattle
- NLIS cattle: agistment requirements
- NLIS Cattle: getting started for cattle producers
- NLIS Cattle: identification and stock movements
- NLIS Cattle: improving herd management
- NLIS Cattle: property-to-property transfers
- NLIS Cattle: using electronic identification and carcase feedback in cattle management
- NLIS Cattle: utilising carcase information
- Pinkeye in cattle
- Pregnancy toxaemia in beef cattle
- Selecting and managing beef heifers
- Steps in the beef marketing chain
- Supplementary feeding of cattle
- Tips for transporting cattle and sheep
- Treating calf scours
- Using hormonal growth promotants in NSW beef production
- Vibriosis of cattle
- Water requirements for sheep and cattle
- Weaning beef calves
- WormTest for livestock and guide to egg counts
Sheep
- Age of first joining sheep
- Cheesy gland (Caseous Lymphadenitis) in sheep
- Drench resistance and sheep worm control
- Ewe management and body weight at joining
- Feedlotting lambs
- Full hand feeding of sheep - feeding management
- Full hand feeding of sheep - management
- Full hand feeding of sheep - quantities
- How to tell the age of sheep
- How vaccination works
- Liver fluke disease in sheep and cattle
- NLIS and agistment - sheep
- Sheep blowflies
- Sheep health - scabby mouth
- Sheep lice
- Vaccination programs for sheep
- Why fat score breeding ewes?