Queensland primary producers requiring a handgun for their work can take heart from the dismissal of an appeal by the Queensland Police Service last Friday.

A Charleville grazier convicted of illegal tree clearing will only have to pay $10,000 in fines and costs instead of $112,000 after the Court of Appeal deemed that the penalty would have been "a crushing burden" on him and his family.

Queensland farmers can expect to pay up to $100,000 to install new water meters.