Need help with pest animals?
We provide a free service
Farmers and landholders do not need to pay to register for the program and there is no fee for our members' pest control services.
You have total control
Farmers and landholders have total control over who comes onto their property and what conditions our members must follow.
Accredited shooters only
SSAA members registered for this program have undertaken a shooting skill test that is equivalent to tests undertaken by professional shooters.
Covered by insurance
All SSAA members participating in this program are covered by the association's $20 million public liability and personal accident cover.
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I have found the Farmer Assist program to be extremely helpful in controlling feral animals on our drought stricken property. I would recommend the program to other farmers.
Pat H, Longreach
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You can certainly turn some pest animals into hearty meals. Here's an international award winning cookbook produced by the SSAA to help you put some field sourced meat onto your fork.![]()
onlineshop.ssaa.org.au/product/field-to-fork-second-helpings/Off the back of an international award win putting Field to Fork – Second Helpings game meat cookbook among the best in the world, the conversation of sourcing game meat for the table is piquing the interest of Australia’s media. SSAA National Media and Politics Officer Rachael Oxborrow spoke to the ABC’s WA regional Drive show with Andrew Collins to discuss the field to fork lifestyle earlier this week.![]()
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The wet weather across parts of the country will provide pest animals with ideal breeding conditions. ![]()
Are you a landholder or know of one that wants to tackle pest issues before they get worst? ![]()
We can help. www.farmerassist.com.au
Good news from South Australia. Quail hunting has returned thanks to some hard work by a group of citizen scientists.SA quail hunting back from the brink!![]()
The South Australian Government has today announced the 2022 duck and quail-hunting seasons. This announcement marks a great achievement by the hunting community to have quail hunting reinstated in SA after a two-year hiatus during which many thought the pastime would be lost forever. SSAA National’s Wildlife Biologist, Matt Godson, lead a team of volunteers from the Conservation and Hunting Alliance of South Australia to undertake a citizens’ science project which surveyed stubble quail abundance across the state. The subsequent report prepared by Matt provided SA’s Environment Minister with the data he needed to declare a sustainable hunting season.![]()
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The 2022 duck season will begin on 19 March 2022 and run until 26 June with a bag limit of eight ducks per hunter per day, stubble quail season to start on 30 April 2022 and run until 31 July 2022 with a bag limit of 20 quail per hunter per day.![]()
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More details on the quail survey project can be found here: bit.ly/3FL9gQD
As a seasoned outdoorsman John Dunn has graced the pages of Australian Shooter with his entertaining and witty writings for more than three decades. Now he’s put together his second collection of columns for readers to reprise at their leisure. The Jumbunna Collection Volume II: More Stories From The Bush includes encounters from his experiences in the Outback as well as treks to locations including Finland, New Zealand and Alaska.![]()
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As David Hughes explores, the urge to hunt arises from deep-seated natural instincts and, according to this premise, the desire to hunt, fish and gather our own food represents the ‘norm’. The hunting forebears of modern man left ample records in rocks dating back millions of years.![]()
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Do you shoot many foxes? The team at the AusFox Project are looking for volunteers to provide samples to help them investigate population structure, dispersal patterns and connectivity of red foxes across Australia. Visit their website for more details - www.ausfoxproject.com/
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The SSAA’s effort to showcase the sustainable harvest and cooking of game meats has made waves internationally.SSAA’s Field to Fork - Second Helpings cookbook has been recognised with an international award. The book, which was released earlier this year, is Australia’s Best Meat Cookbook in the 2021 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.![]()
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A new fox bounty scheme has been introduced by the state government.
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