Armidale Regional Council has taken the opportunity to work with the RSCA and Northern Tablelands Local Land Services to update, formalise and standardise its operating procedures for the management of cattle.
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It follows council's loss of a number of cattle during the Christmas - New Year period on its farm near Armidale airport, after a tap feeding the water trough was turned off, either by some unknown person or accidentally by the cattle.
We have now customised operating procedures for our farms at the airport and on Waterfall Way.
- Susan Law
Council CEO Susan Law the two organisations actively worked with council to write the guidelines and sign them off.
"Certainly prior to the development of these operating procedures, under the administrator and the old Armidale-Dumaresq council, council was managing these cattle by custom and practice. I really don't know why," Mrs Law said.
"I think the something good that has come from what was a pretty distressing event for everybody involved, is that we have now taken the time to look at what is best practice.
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"We have now customised operating procedures for our farms at the airport and on Waterfall Way."
Mrs Law said council would continue to carry cattle on both properties for the short-term.
"However, I think it 'is fair to say that council is always looking at options for the management of its assets," she said.
"I have no doubt that there will be a time when we look at how we might manage the farms, or have the farms managed for us in the future."
