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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
The road to regeneration with Matt Tonkin Listen on your favourite podcast APP. Meet our guest host and VicNoTill board member Michael Gooden, who stood in for podcast host Dan Fox during harvest to catch up with farm manager Matt Tonkin in episode 12 of the Farmers Helping Farmers podcast. Matt is a Sober in...
Phil Peterson – Building carbon in soils, Part 2 In this second episode with Phil Peterson from Loam Bio, Farmers Helping Farmers podcast host Dan Fox explores in more detail Phil’s passion for rebuilding soil carbon on farms. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, we suggest you go back to Episode 6 of Farmers...
Callum Lawson Avenel, VIC New VicNoTill board member Callum Lawson has always loved farming and as a child was a willing helper to his father Les, friends, neighbours and anyone who’d let him do farm chores while growing up in the Strathbogie ranges in Victoria. Les and Callum’s Mum Netta purchased a hobby farm in...
Angus Ingram Kilter Rural Kyabram VIC & Tocumwal NSW Agricultural investment manager Angus Ingram has a curious mind and asks an endless stream of questions. When it comes to profitable farming systems, he believes farmers shouldn’t hesitate to ask more questions. “Most people trust what their agronomist of the past 20 years tells them but...
Episode 10 of the Farmers Helping Farmers podcast. Search “Farmers Helping Farmers Vic No Till” on your preferred Podcast App! Click here for Spotify Click here for Apple Subscribe, leave a review and listen now. Worms inspire lifelong journey of discovery The worms at NutriSoil are treated like royalty, because they are the key to sustainability, healthy...
The VicNoTill conference and network hosted a group of regenerative farmers from New Zealand including Mike Porter, a prime lamb producer from near South Canterbury in New Zealand’s South Island. He spoke about his farming journey to Libby Price from Ace Radio program Country Today. Mike was with the Foundation of Arable Research. Mike’s presentation...
Libby Price from Ace Radio’s Country Today rural program caught up with VicNoTill’s former president Grant Sims at our conference for an indepth chat about cover crops/multi-species pastures and the role they can play in your farming system. Grant is also the founder of Down Under Covers who are one of VicNoTill’s valued sponsors.
Farmers Helping Farmers podcast host Dan Fox catches up with Col Bowey from CB Farming Systems, who was one of the guest speakers at VicNoTill’s 2023 conference, Tran$ition23. Col also led a soil pit discussion and spent the week leading up to the conference visiting NSW farms. Col says success in farming always comes down...
VicNoTill is hitting the road with leading Australian soil advisors Ed Scott and Michael Eyres to dig deeper than ever before into soil issues and opportunities across NSW and Victoria. We invite growers to join us at field days covering strategic soil management, whole of landscape effect, matching soil to moisture management, soil climate boundaries...
UK arable farmer of the year and Green Farm Collective founding member Tim Parton spent a week in Australia as part of VicNoTill’s annual conference TRAN$ITION23. As well as inspiring over 100 farmers in the conference room, Tim hung out in soil pits and dug into soils with a shovel to gain a deeper understanding...
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