PODCAST ENCORE: GRANT SIMS – making regenerative ag work in Australia at a large scale

May 11, 2026

If you managed to catch ABC Landline yesterday, this encore podcast episode is for you!

We are re-releasing our very first Farmers Helping Farmers podcast episode with former VicNoTill president and sixth generation Lockington farmer Grant Sims. This conversation with Dan Fox was recorded way back in 2022 is our most highly listened to episode of all time.

Recording of the very first episode of Farmers Helping Farmers, the Podcast.

Landline featured Grant and the benefits of regenerative farming system on yesterday’s episode (May 10, 2026). It is exciting to see regenerative agriculture finally get the airplay it deserves. It might have taken a world war and a global fueland fertiliser crisis to get this attention, but the reality is that VicNoTill farmers like Grant have been successfully farming regeneratively in large-scale broadacre cropping and livestock systems for over 10 years.

Dan Fox caught up with Grant Sims, left, in 2022 for the first episode of Farmers Helping Farmers, The Podcast.

Grant joined the VicNoTill board in 2015 and was president until 2020. Grant has long been at the forefront of innovation and was president when our farmer-based, grassroots organisation started testing and trialling regenerative tools in Australian broadacre cropping and livestock systems.

Grant credits VicNoTill as taking his passion and vision for better soils, better livestock and better, more profitable and sustainable farming systems to the next level.

“Farmers helping farmers is a powerful way to lead change, and I don’t know any other organisation out there who does this as well as VicNoTill does,” he says.

Grant’s excitement and passion for a new approach to how farmers feed the world is contagious, as you will discover watching him on Landline and in this episode of Farmers Helping Farmers – soil health, soil function and grassroots agriculture.

VicNoTill would like to thank Grant for everything he has done for our network and agriculture in general through this simple yet powerful approach of ‘farmers helping farmers’.