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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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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FARMERS HELPING FARMERS podcast – episode 12

January 14, 2024

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...


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FARMERS HELPING FARMERS podcast – Episode 11

December 30, 2023

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...


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New board member follows farming dream

December 29, 2023

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...


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VicNoTill new board member takes a regenerative approach to corporate farming

December 29, 2023

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...


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TRAN$ITION23 PODCAST SERIES – NAKALA MADDOCK: A fascinating insight into worm farming

September 28, 2023

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...


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Tran$ition23 conference series: Country Today interview with Mike Porter NZ

September 9, 2023

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...


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Tran$ition23 conference series: Country Today interview with Grant Sims

September 9, 2023

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.


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Catch up on Tran$ition23 conference via livestream

July 26, 2023

Farmers from around Australia and as far as NZ and the UK gathered in Moama, NSW to share the challenges and benefits of transitioning a farm to achieve regenerative outcomes at VicNoTill’s annual 3-day conference, Tran$ition23. Growing nutrient-rich food, personal wellbeing and transitioning farming systems to better care for soils were on the agenda at...


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2020 VicNoTill conference speakers

July 5, 2023

VicNoTill is pleased to present yet another fantastic lineup of top quality presenters for the 2023 annual conference “Tran$ition23”. We are all about farmers helping farmers, and ours is one of Australia’s leading farmer conferences. You won’t want to miss this! In-person and livestream tickets are available HERE  Full conference program available HERE Print out the...


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2023 VicNoTill conference program out now

July 5, 2023

VicNoTill has released its full program for the 2023 conference “Tran$ition23” which is on July 18, 19 and 20 at Rich River Golf Club Moama. In-person and livestream tickets are available HERE  Print out the full program and speaker profiles Tran$ition23ProgramSpeakers 21 years of farmers helping farmers A small group of innovative broadacre cropping farmers...


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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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