Managing your property for improved drought resilience and increased productivity
Description
Are you interested in improving your farm productivity and profitability, and or environmental outcomes in these challenging times? Learn more about how to regenerate your land and build resilience to drought and other climate extremes through practical actions. Build your confidence in making decisions that can regenerate your land. Meet others in the district that you can learn from and share your experience and support each other. This workshop will discuss and demonstrate actions that can reduce your exposure to increased prices or reduced supply of external inputs (fuel, fertiliser, herbicides, etc), providing a way to potentially increase profitability.
The half-day workshop will commence with a brief theory session of the principles and key actions to regenerating your land, and an overview of the initial actions and observations of the cattle grazing enterprisewe're visiting. We will then proceed to visit some sites on the property to view regenerative actions implemented and discuss the results.
You will learn more about managing your soil, water, and plants (grazing and cropping) to regenerate landscape function to improve your resilience to drought and other climate extremes. The purpose is to provide an understanding to attendees of what practical actions they can implement on their properties, and how to adapt their property management to suit the location and resources available. These actions have been shown to work across Australia and globally, actions can be simple and cost effective or can be fast-tracked if you have the resources.
Light lunch and refreshments will be provided
The Growers Network
The Growers Network is a new, Growing Together South Coast initiative for local growers, farmers and producers. Whether you run a small-scale market garden, a hobby farm, livestock or are interested in working in local agriculture, this network is your shortcut to better tools, smarter practices, and a stronger local community. Find out more
This project is supported by FRRR, through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.
Workshop Presenter
Luke Peel
Luke is the Regional Agriculture Resilience Officer (Regional Circularity Co-operative) and Knowledge Broker for the Southern NSW Drought Hub. He was the research manager for the Mulloon Institute for over 8 years. Key activities focussed on establishing an extensive scientific monitoring system (surface & groundwater, soil health and function, productivity, flora, fauna, climate, satellite and drone monitoring etc). He developed and implemented many field days across the catchment including extension work with farmers, research groups, Universities (e.g. ANU sustainable farms), secondary schools. The extension and engagements included many farmer-led groups across Australia (Kangaroo Valley, Goulburn, SW WA NRM, and Bega region, plus Internationally (NZ, USA, China, Argentina, UK, etc). This has built much experience with helping famers and land mangers understand key principles of how to regenerate their land, build resilience to drought and extreme climatic events, and improve their ability to improve farm productivity and environmental outcomes. Other previous roles include twenty-plus years with the NT Govt conducting extensive R & D in satellite and ground-based monitoring systems for Northern Australia rangelands implemented in the NT and spread into WA and Qld. Conducted long-term trials on soil erosion rates on cropping using different tillage techniques, and cattle grazing of pastures with different stocking rates.
Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity
