Aaron Edmond of Calingiri is one of three farmers helping CSIRO to trial elite Oldman saltbush in the paddock and offered a corner of wheat crop to plant the 1,000 seedlings. The Moore Catchment Council (MCC) obtained funding through the Northern Agricultural Catchments Council’s (NACC) Caring For Our Country (CFOC) devolved wind erosion grant scheme and CFOC’s Community Action Grants scheme to carry out the project. In partnership with the Moora-Miling Pasture Improvement
Group (MMPIG), three different project sites were chosen at Miling, Namban and Calingiri to ensure widespread testing of the shrubs.