FARMERS HELPING FARMERS podcast: Episode 7

July 4, 2023

Episode 7 TOM BRIGGS – Lessons About Context And Nutrition When Shifting To A Regenerative Farming System In this episode of Farmers Helping Farmers our host Dan Fox catches up with vice president Tom Briggs. As a third generation farmer in Victoria, Australia, Tom was never a big fan of school; especially the reading and...


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What happens with your soil infiltration under different management systems?

July 1, 2023

VicNoTill was the first to bring a rainfall simulator to Australia in 2017 as a way of showing rain impact and soil infiltration under different farming systems. Our farmers helping farmers group has presented the rainfall simulator at many conferences and paddock events, creating a lot of discussion and interest, and resulting in many farmers...


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FARMERS HELPING FARMERS podcast – episode 6

May 23, 2023

LISTEN HERE Building Carbon in Soils with Phil Peterson In Episode 6 of Farmers Helping Farmers our host Dan Fox catches up with Phil Peterson who is passionate about rebuilding soil carbon on farms. In the many conversations Dan has had with Phil in the paddock, this passion has come through clearly, and Dan thought...


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PHIL PETERSON – Building carbon in soils

May 19, 2023

NEW EPISODE In Episode 6 of Farmers Helping Farmers our host Dan Fox catches up with Phil Peterson who is passionate about rebuilding soil carbon on farms. In the many conversations Dan has had with Phil in the paddock, this passion has come through clearly, and Dan thought it was about time he captured some...


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Farmers Helping Farmers podcast episode 5 with Fraser Pogue

April 5, 2023

FRASER POGUE: The Good Dirt on Good Farming In episode 5 of VicNoTill’s Farmers Helping Farmers podcast, our host Dan Fox speaks to farmer Fraser Pogue. Fraser and his wife Leanne farm at Ardmona and have a long history with VicNoTill. With innovation, passion and enthusiasm for reducing synthetic inputs, this episode covers a whole...


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Farmers Helping Farmers podcast episode 4 with Terry McCosker

March 1, 2023

DR Terry McCosker – Rewarding Farmers For Their Natural Capital One of the world’s most respected leaders in soil health, carbon sequestration and regenerative agriculture Dr Terry McCosker struggled in primary and high school, before discovering he ‘learnt by doing’. Since then he has never stopped learning or doing, and is one of the masterminds...


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AgCulture

February 23, 2023

Needham Ag Technologies supplied by AG Culture Pty Ltd Since 2006, Needham Ag Technologies has been providing agronomically proven products to assist farmers looking to increase their on-farm productivity. Their after-market product range has been shaped around modifying farmers current seeding equipment to get them to optimise seed placement and seedling establishment. Due to machine...


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Farmers Helping Farmers Podcast Episode 3: Michael Eyres & Ed Scott

February 1, 2023

A soil pit will never lie Over the past decade, Field Systems Australia founder Michael Eyres and Soil Science Australia vice president Edward Scott have stood in around 7000 soil pits around the world. They focus on soil performance in managed agricultural landscapes, and help farmers identify the most limiting factors affecting production. They added...


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Farmers Helping Farmers podcast Episode 2 with Graeme Sait

December 9, 2022

Internationally renowned nutritionist and farmer Graeme Sait is a wealth of information, and after a tragic family accident, he has dedicated the past 28 years of his life to sharing all that he knows and all that he has learnt about improving plant and human health. VicNoTill is honoured to sit down with Graeme in...


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Farmers Helping Farmers Podcast: Episode 1

November 15, 2022

VicNoTill, established in the Wimmera in Victoria 20 years ago, has released the first episode  of its new Farmers Helping Farmers podcast on all major podcast platforms including Apple, Spotify and Google. Apple Podcast link: http://ow.ly/Y58850LEiOA Spotify Podcast link: http://ow.ly/zqvc50LEiOs Google Podcasts link: http://ow.ly/YH7X50LEiOl Podcast host and VicNoTill president Dan Fox, a fifth generation broadacre...


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Vic No-Till has a PODCAST!

November 15, 2022

Farmers Helping Farmers: soil health, soil function and grassroots agriculture ‘Farmers Helping Farmers’ celebrates the people at the grassroots of agriculture who are doing things differently. Hosted by third generation Australian farmer and VicNoTill president Dan Fox, ‘Farmers Helping Farmers’ asks the tough questions and, most importantly, give the honest answers. Search “Farmers Helping Farmers...


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LEADING BROADACRE FARMING CONFERENCE ‘CARBON POWER’

August 2, 2022

How regenerative farming methods are helping growers build and store more carbon on their farms will be the focus of one of Australia’s leading farmer conferences in Moama this month. The latest innovations in broadacre cropping and grazing will be on the agenda at the VicNoTill conference ‘Carbon Power’, a three-day event starting on August...


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CARBON POWER tickets on sale!

June 16, 2022

VicNoTill is thrilled to see the return of our annual farmers helping farmers conference – take 3! And to make up for not having our conference for a couple of years and to celebrate 20 years of VicNoTill, we’re making it a 3-day event on August 16, 17 & 18 including: Rainfall simulator and farm...


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Bugs & Brews paddock event with Fraser Pogue

June 10, 2022

We all know farmers helping farmers is the best way to learn and we’re excited to bring you this hands-on, practical farm event with leading Australian farmer Fraser Pogue. Fraser is never afraid to try new things in his pursuit of ‘good farming’ and is generously sharing his experiences with bioferments and biostimulants on his...


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Carbon Series – multi-species cropping, rotational grazing, bugs n brews

April 29, 2022

VicNoTill is excited to bring farmers the Carbon Series, webinars that focus on soil carbon and provide practical steps to help you increase soil organic matter in your farming system. Featuring three specialists in this regenerative, no-till farming system field, the webinars start on Friday April 29 and continue during May and June 2022. We’ve...


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Workshop & Paddock Events, March 1 & 2

February 22, 2022

We are so excited – we have 2 Carbon Power farmers helping farmers events coming up! March 1 in Tatura VIC – BOOK here March 2 in Sandigo NSW – BOOK here With Dr Terry McCosker Principles of soil health management Optimising carbon storage & sequestration Navigating the set-up of an on-farm carbon project Dr...


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Doing more with less is the new path for ag: HENRY CROOKE

September 7, 2021

The Crooke family’s soil story appeared in our member magazine ‘From the Ground Up’ Issue #63 Autumn 2021. We welcome new members, and your membership includes a copy of our popular magazine.  “I’m pretty fascinated about soil biology now and really want to work to improve it instead of killing it.” Henry and Terri Crooke Coolamon...


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