ABC Rural [1]

New South Wales graziers have formed a lobby group to try and keep iconic travelling stock routes open.

Travelling stock routes are an Australian farming tradition. They are fenced-off common lands which criss-cross the country alongside roadways, forming a network of 'long paddocks' traditionally used by drovers to move livestock and provide alternative grazing during drought.

At a meeting in Dubbo, central-west NSW, graziers said the routes were under threat from a government out of touch with producers' wishes.

The newly formed Combined Action to Retain Routes for Travelling Stock group will put a case to the NSW Government for better management of the routes.

» Full story [2]

Read more

» Safe the Beef Highways [3] - petition

» Combined Action to Retain Routes for Travelling Stock [1] on facebook