TRAN$ITION23 – Paths to Change – VicNoTill Conference
April 19, 2023TICKETS ON SALE NOW! CLICK HERE TO BOOK
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Farmers Helping Farmers podcast episode 5 with Fraser Pogue
April 5, 2023FRASER 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, 2023DR 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, 2023Needham 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, 2023A 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, 2022Internationally 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, 2022VicNoTill, 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, 2022Farmers 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, 2022How 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, 2022VicNoTill 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, 2022We 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, 2022VicNoTill 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, 2022We 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, 2021The 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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VicNoTill new president Dan Fox
August 17, 2021We’re thrilled to announce that VicNoTill has a new president, Dan Fox from the Marrar district in NSW. Dan was elected as president at our AGM after past president Brent Rothacker finished his term in the role. If you’d like to get to know a little bit more about what Dan and his family are...
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FRASER POGUE: From the pages of books to the silver screen
July 9, 2021This story first appeared in Issue 62, the Spring 20120 edition of our member magazine From the Ground Up. We welcome new members, and your membership includes a copy of our popular magazine. JOIN NOW. By Melissa Pouliot In the winter 2016 edition of From the Ground Up, Ardmona irrigation farmer Fraser Pogue’s story began...
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Introducing biofertilisers to a no-till system
July 9, 2021Q&A with Fraser Pogue When did you start using biofertilisers? We started using a commercially available liquid about nine years ago. What prompted you to start using them and continue using them? We first started using them to reduce our use of synthetic fertilisers. The first time we tried it in faba beans it worked...
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VicNoTill board nominations now open
July 6, 2021We are looking for new farmers to help us lead our national network of like-minded farmers. VicNoTill’s goal is to advance regenerative, biological farming systems and share knowledge and expertise in no-till and zero-till systems. Our network is spread across Australia and our farmers are managing their systems under a range of climate and environmental...
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Postponed – CONFERENCE 2021: CARBON POWER
June 5, 2021Unfortunately, due to current COVID restrictions, we have had to postpone our conference 2021 until spring. We’re working towards the same fabulous lineup. We will update our members via email and social media when we have confirmed the new date. Featuring Costa Georgiadis, John Kempf and Graeme Sait. VicNoTill is thrilled to host our annual...
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Tribute to retiring board member Matt McKinley
May 19, 2021It is with mixed emotions that VicNoTill farewelled two of its valuable board members, Paul Oxbrow and Matt McKinley this year. Matt was our board’s first NSW member and joined in 2017, and we have appreciated his refreshing honesty as his approach to building a more resilient farming system has evolved. We took a look...
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