Can we increase on farm production AND achieve environmental outcomes? Join QFF and RCS Australia for this discussion.

If we want to ensure the long-term sustainability and growth for the agriculture sector, we need to ensure farmers are supported to increase productivity while maintaining environmental outcomes for the communities in which we live, work and play.

Join Queensland Farmers' Federation (QFF) CEO Jo Sheppard and RCS Australia Founding Director Dr Terry McCosker OAM and together they will explore the topic of how farming businesses can increase production and business performance in step with ecological and social outcomes.

During the webinar, Jo and Terry will explore what farming businesses can do today, to ensure a sustainable enterprise and environment tomorrow.

Date: Monday, 13 March 2023
Time: 12pm - 1pm AEST
Registration: Register here

If we want to ensure the long-term sustainability and growth for the agriculture sector, we need to ensure farmers are supported to increase productivity while maintaining environmental outcomes for the communities in which we live, work and play. 

On Monday, 13 March 2023 Queensland Farmers' Federation (QFF) CEO Jo Sheppard will be joined by RCS Australia Founding Director Dr Terry McCosker OAM and together they will explore the topic of how farming businesses can increase production and business performance in step with ecological and social outcomes.

During the webinar, Jo and Terry will explore what farming businesses can do today, to ensure a sustainable enterprise and environment tomorrow. 

About Dr Terry McCosker OAM, Founding Director, RCS Australia

Terry is an internationally acclaimed teacher and has worked in research, extension and property management in both government and private sectors for almost 55 years.

Terry co-founded RCS over 35 years ago which has set the benchmark for capacity building in rural and regional Australia. He is responsible for the introduction of the GrazingforProfit™ School into Australia which now has over 8,000 graduates.  This program is part of the RCS Rural Profit System which has transformed the business performance, production systems, ecology, and wellbeing of many graduates. Living proof that empowering people to take control can achieve sustained success and growth for the agriculture sector.

Terry was described in the Australian Farm Journal editorial in July 2010 as follows: “It is hard to imagine the mental toughness and commitment McCosker and his early farmer adopters had to muster to withstand the flood of criticism from within conventional agricultural science circles. … McCosker’s ideas took farming out of a war with nature to an association with it. He introduced Australian farmers to the concept of ecosystem health and developed methods of measuring it alongside financial health. Critically he introduced the concept of farm family well-being and welcomed female partners, siblings and parents into courses about decision making.”

RCS Australia is a Corporate Partner of the Queensland Farmers' Federation.