Invitation to be part of Australia’s leading farmer-based group VicNoTill

July 26, 2023
VicNoTill is looking for new Australian farmers to help us lead our global network of like-minded farmers. VicNoTill’s goal is to advance regenerative, biological, nutrition-rich farming systems and share knowledge and expertise.
We are seeking expressions of interest before 25th August 2023 by:
  • Emailing Amy: manager@vicnotill.com.au
  • Completing the form HERE
Board members will be elected at the AGM in September (details to be announced).
If you are…
– Keen to explore new innovation in farming
– Passionate about sharing your knowledge and expertise of regenerative farming systems
– Enthusiastic about making an important contribution to the future of agriculture
– Wanting to see large-scale changes in farming systems to improve soil health and grow more nutrient-rich food
…we would love to hear from you!

More about VicNoTill

VicNoTill formed in the Wimmera in Western Victoria in 2002 with the idea of helping farmers achieve better results at harvest time while encouraging greater adoption of sustainable and profitable food production systems. As farming systems have evolved significantly since that time, VicNoTill has also evolved.
With a passionate farmer-led board we encourage innovation by focusing on whole farming systems that replenish and regenerate soils for future generations, while remaining profitable. Context is critical so we are continually adapting and openly sharing our on-farm findings to help others move their systems forward.
Our farmers are sharing diverse and adaptable techniques that combine minimum or zero-tillage, stubble retention, biology and nutrition, living roots in soils, plant diversity, integrating livestock into broadacre cropping, multi-species covers and other ‘good farming’ practices.
President Dan Fox attended his first VicNoTill conference in 2017 and joined the VicNoTill board in 2021. He says the best thing about being part of VicNoTill is that everyone has a common goal to improve their farms.
We might be at different stages of where we want to get to and how we are getting there but we’re all in this together and can help each other by sharing and broadening our knowledge.
“Being part of the VicNoTill board is extremely rewarding, both from learning and sharing perspectives. When you host overseas farmers like a group from New Zealand who were part of our 2023 conference, it hits home that the innovation happening right here in our soils is leading global change. That’s a pretty humbling experience.
“The VicNoTill network has been doing this for 21 years and behind our success is the board members who have stepped up and brought their knowledge and experience to the table to help drive our organisation forward.”

2023 board from left, Brendan Pattison, Michael Gooden, Tara Hindson, Steve Stone, business manager Amy Burgess, Erwin Van Den Berg, Tom Briggs, Dan Fox.

What others say about VicNoTill

  • Libby Price, Country Today radio host and former ABC Victorian Country Hour host:

The young VicNoTill farmers are inspirational, their enthusiasm contagious, their courage to break the rules and challenge agricultural practices admirable.”

  • Internationally renowned nutritionist and farmer Graeme Sait
I hold you guys in awe. You are world leaders in what you’re doing. You are absolutely driving this whole movement and you don’t realise how far ahead of the game you are and what change makers you can become. You’re doing an amazing job and I admire totally what you’re doing.”
Reaching a global audience of 107,000 people on one Twitter video in board member Brendan Pattison’s canola paddock is an indication of how many people VicNoTill reaches.