Getting started with grazing for soil and landscape health with Rod and Katrina Butler
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Sometimes the hardest part about making a change to your farming is figuring out how to start. Other times it’s about maintaining confidence in a new practice as you overcome challenges.
Join us for this free webinar with farmers Rod and Katrina Butler. They will share their journey of implementing grazing strategies that have built soil and landscape health on their sheep trading enterprise at Gimlet Ridge over the past 30 years.
Rod and Katrina will speak about the challenges they overcame, what they learned in the process and the benefits they experienced. These benefits include increasing stocking rates, reduced costs and also improved landscape health. Since changing their grazing management, they have observed increasing grass cover, pastures that stay green for longer and trees and birds coming back into the landscape.
This webinar is one of five events with graziers featured in Soils for Life’s recently launched Grazing for Soil and Landscape Regeneration Practice Guide. Developed with experienced graziers from around Australia, and some of Australia’s most respected grazing educators and training institutions, we’ve produced a resource that distils the most common principles and practices used by graziers to regenerate soil health and landscape function.
The Grazing for Soil and Landscape Regeneration Practice Guide was produced with funding from Twynam Investments and guidance from Judi Earl (Agricultural Information and Monitoring Services), Helen Lewis (Australian Holistic Management Cooperative), David McLean (RCS), Grahame Rees (KLR Marketing) and Brian Wehlburg (Inside Outside Management). We also acknowledge and thank the case study farmers profiled in this guide for their generosity in sharing their stories, knowledge and experience. Soils for Life remains solely responsible for all content, and the views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funder or advisers.
This webinar is supported by “The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal” and Hand Heart Pocket.
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Rod and Katrina Butler
Until recently, Rod and Katrina Butler operated a sheep trading and opportunity cropping enterprise, Gimlet Ridge in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Rod and Katrina began adopting Holistic Planned Grazing in 1997 after completing Holistic Management training with educator Bruce Ward, and started making decisions designed to keep ground cover on the land. Rod and Katrina continued working with Bruce, and his mentoring in financial planning and context development helped them to shift their mindset, connected them with like minded practitioners and deepened their understanding and practice of Holistic Management. Over time, stocking rates increased, costs reduced and the landscape changed considerably. Since changing their grazing management, they have observed increasing grass cover, pastures that stay green for longer and trees and birds coming back into the landscape. The farm became easy to manage and low cost to run with stocking rates increasing. With all of these changes, Rod and Katrina feel that they had much more choice and control.
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