FARMERS HELPING FARMERS PODCAST – Episode 18, Matthew Evans

October 24, 2024

MATTHEW EVANS – The reluctant celebrity farmer and chef using his fame to spread the word about healthy soils, healthy foods and healthy people. Subscribe to Farmers Helping Farmers on your favourite podcast APP. VicNoTill farmers were rapt to welcome food writer, farmer, television broadcaster and chef Matthew Evans to the Food for Thought Conference...


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FARMERS HELPING FARMERS PODCAST – Episode 17 Joel Williams

October 11, 2024

JOEL WILLIAMS – Food for thought and the latest science on building soil carbon in an Australian context Farmers Helping Farmers Dan Fox caught up with Joel Williams during our Food for Thought conference in Wagga Wagga to talk about the latest science and the on-ground change that is happening thanks to farmers like those...


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FARMERS HELPING FARMERS PODCAST – Episode 16 JIM ALEXANDER

September 1, 2024

The latest episode of VicNoTill’s Farmers Helping Farmers podcast is out now with farmer Jim Alexander – Taking the foot off the throat of soil biology Subscribe and listen on your favourite podcast app including Spotify and Apple Podcasts. VicNoTill board member Michael Gooden visits Jim Alexander on the Cootamundra farm where he lives with his wife Em...


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FARMERS HELPING FARMERS PODCAST – Episode 15 ALLAN PARKER

August 21, 2024

A new VicNoTill Farmers Helping Farmers Podcast episode has just dropped with Allan Parker, OAM – Resetting your brain to reset your farming future Subscribe and listen on your favourite podcast app including Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Episode 15 is a conversation for farmers not to be missed and we’re excited to launch it on...


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Setting the future direction of VicNoTill

August 19, 2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT conference speaker profile: Vickie Burkinshaw Vickie is Chief Changemaker of Purple Pyjamas, a consulting firm supporting people and organisations to achieve positive change. Vickie is passionate about helping people build sustainable enterprises. She is a professional facilitator, trainer, coach, writer and mentor providing inspiration and support to a range of businesses, not-for-profits and...


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MASTERCLASS with Joel Williams & Stacey Curcio

August 19, 2024

Plant & Human Health – Thursday 5 September, Wagga Wagga NSW BOOK NOW MASTERCLASS  Following our 2 day Food for Thought conference in Wagga Wagga, VicNoTill is running a Masterclass with Joel Williams from Integrated Soils and Stacey Curcio, Cultivating Wellness.   This will include Joel presenting new material and taking a deep dive into...


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Food for Thought conference dinner speaker Matthew Evans, Gourmet Farmer

August 19, 2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT conference speaker profile: Matthew Evans, Gourmet Farmer, Fat Pig Farm VicNoTill is thrilled to announce our Food for Thought Conference Dinner guest speaker Matthew Evans is a food writer, farmer, television broadcaster and chef. Based in Southern Tasmania, Matthew lives and works on Fat Pig Farm, a mixed holding where he tends a...


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Food for Thought Conference Program

August 12, 2024

Please see below the detailed program of the Food for Thought conference which you can also DOWNLOAD. Visit our Conference page to read more about our speakers and how to book your place as numbers are limited!


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Profit and the squeeze on inputs

August 8, 2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT conference speaker profile: Dave Bushell Third generation farmer and agronomist Temora NSW Organic mixed farm with wife Charina and family Cattle, sheep, no-till cropping When Dave Bushell heard Australian pasture cropping pioneer Colin Seis speak about combining grazing and cropping in the same paddock by direct-seeding cereal crops into perennial native grasses...


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Stimulating conversations about soil

August 8, 2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT conference speaker profile: Keiran Knight Merah North, NSW Broadacre biological farming with husband John and three daughters Agronomist for Best Farming Systems Australia Growing up on an irrigation, cotton, sheep, cattle and cereal farm in the Merah North district, Keiran Knight had her sights set on a corporate career and her first...


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Joining the dots for a bright farming future

August 8, 2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT conference speaker profile: Michael Gooden Michael and Heloise Gooden, children Jude, Sally and Margot “Willowlee”, 70km east of Wagga Wagga Fourth generation Riverina farmer Mixed farm and cattle stud, flood irrigated off Sandy Creek Farming & Grazing for Profit – RCS Holistic Management with Bruce Ward Having grown up on his family’s...


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A student of the soil

August 8, 2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT conference speaker profile: Rob Hetherington Farms with wife Judi and son Daniel, Kate and family Cropping and multi-species for dairy Lake King, WA Wheatbelt NRM Soil Health Champion 2022 At last year’s VicNoTill conference, Transition23, the buzz word on everyone’s lips was calcium. This year, the Food for Thought conference will explore...


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Regenerative ag in the blood

August 8, 2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT conference speaker profile: Stacey Curcio Growing up where dinner table conversations centred around the principles of regenerative agriculture and a holistic view of farming built a strong foundation for Stacey Curcio’s fascination with nutrition and human health. Her parents Pam and Dr Terry McCosker, OAM, a pioneer in the field of regenerative...


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Australian farming ‘buzzing’ with innovation

August 8, 2024

FOOD FOR THOUGHT conference speaker profile: Joel Williams Joel Williams is known around the world for his enthusiasm and passion for working with farmers to increase their knowledge and understanding of soil health. With links to VicNoTill going back almost a decade, he can hardly contain his excitement over returning to Australia this spring as...


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FARMERS HELPING FARMERS PODCAST – Episode 14 CALLUM LAWSON

July 29, 2024

Episode 14 of Farmers Helping Farmers, the podcast, is out now featuring CALLUM LAWSON – The power of opening your eyes and asking questions When Victorian cattle farmer Callum Lawson went to a holistic grazing course, it turned the way he approached farming on its head. He came home from the first day feeling baffled...


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DOING MORE WITH LESS – Field Days July 2024

June 26, 2024

DOING MORE WITH LESS Using nutrition to reduce synthetic inputs and improve soil and plant nutrition. In the paddock with VicNoTill. Speak to leading farmers in their paddocks who are successfully using alternatives to fungicides and insecticides to protect crops and maximise their reproductive potential in spring. Wednesday 24 July – Birchip VIC Wednesday 31...


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FARM WALK – Adding multi-species to the mix (31st May)

May 15, 2024

FIELD DAY! FRIDAY 31ST MAY – BRIDGEWATER & WOODSTOCK WEST Would you like to learn how minimum till, regenerative practices can be used to improve your farm profitability and soil health? If you are broadacre cropping or mixed farming, the City of Greater Bendigo invites you to join us and VicNoTill in the paddock.


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VicNoTill Conference 2024 – FOOD FOR THOUGHT

March 11, 2024

WE GROW WHAT WE EAT VicNoTill farmers are passionate about thinking outside the square in their pursuit of profitably producing quality, nutritious food in large-scale broadacre cropping and mixed farming systems. We grow what we eat, and growing more nutrient-rich food for today’s and future generations is the challenge we have set ourselves. Join us...


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FARMERS HELPING FARMERS PODCAST – Episode 13 JAKE CHANDLER

March 11, 2024

Episode 13 of Farmers Helping Farmers is out now Farming for the environment can be profitable Young farmer Jake Chandler has always had a deep connection with all things agricultural, and has experienced the landscape from many perspectives. The son of an Ag teacher, Jake grew up at Uralla in nothern NSW and loved the...


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Managing stubbles in a soil building system – February Field Days

January 15, 2024

FEBRUARY FIELD DAYS!!! Join VicNoTill in NSW & VIC paddocks on Feb 2 & 5 to talk stubbles! BOOK Exact Locations to be emailed with booking confirmation. These events are proudly brought to you by LawrieCo Special guests: John Broster from Charles Sturt University & Rodney Capon from LawrieCo Featuring the latest research, industry representatives...


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