PLAYING THE LONG GAME: building resilience for your livestock farm business

What makes a livestock farming business resilient to seasonal risk?

What did a resilient farm enterprise look like in the past?

What does a resilient livestock enterprise look like now and what will it look like in the future?

Join seasonal risk agronomist Dale Grey, from The Fast Break, and Chris Mirams, farm management consultant, for this not to be missed interactive workshop. Explore history and climate modelling for future planning and discover how resilient your livestock farm enterprise is in the face of future droughts, floods and fire.

Come along and learn about:

~Basic weather patterns & seasonal forecasting in the North East

~ The language around weather

~ Climate predictions

~What things you can do to adapt & respond to seasonal climate risks

~ Trigger points & actions you can take to safeguard your property and business

~ The adaptive capacity of your farm enterprise

~ Drivers of profit

PLUS: learn about our soon to be released Farm Business Resilience Workshop Series and how you can secure the opportunity for a free one on one session with a farm business consultant!

WHEN

Wednesday, 27th March ~ 9:30am-1:30pm

WHERE

Coulston Park Community Centre, Tangambalanga

29 Kiewa East Rd, Tangambalanga

DETAILS

Morning tea and lunch will be provided
Physical Fitness level required: EASY (sitting for 45 minutes or more)
If you are unwell on the day please remain at home in consideration of the health of others

DALE GREY

Dale Grey is a seasonal risk agronomist based in Bendigo, who has worked with Agriculture Victoria in the Grains Team for the past 24 years. One of the industry's most entertaining and engaging extension figures, he provides information to farmers to help them make better use of seasonal climate forecasts.

Dale has been interpreting climate models from around the world every month since 2008 and converts these insights into grower-friendly resources. He is in his 10th year of authoring the Fast Break climate newsletters. In this entertaining series Dale breaks down climate concepts relative to the season, using easy to understand analogies.
The newsletter details oceanic and atmospheric climate driver activity over the previous month and summarises three month model predictions for the Pacific and Indian Oceans, rainfall and temperature for Victoria.

Dale Grey and The Fast Break newsletter

CHRIS MIRAMS

Chris always knew his future was on the land. He embarked on a farming career as a jackaroo in 1981, working on sheep stations across Australia, before attending Agricultural College. Working through the ranks, Chris was equally happy studying applied genetics or writing a budget, as mustering a paddock on horseback, with his tireless black and tan kelpies.

Chris’ farm management career culminated in managing an iconic grazing property in the southern Riverina. This property quickly became a stamping ground for scientists and researchers and a leading example of large scale, highly productive, sustainable management. During that time Chris chaired EverGraze, a national farming systems research and development project, Chaired Holbrook Landcare, completed a Diploma in Financial Markets and graduated as a Fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Program.

In 2012 Chris established a farm management consultancy, focused on rural leadership and farmer education. Chris has enjoyed Non-Executive Director roles on regional and agricultural boards, including Holbrook Landcare, Scots School Albury, Alpine Valleys Community Leadership Program, Meat Livestock Australia and its subsidiaries. Chris is currently on the Board of North East Water, the Red Meat Advisory Council and is Chair of Sheep Producers Australia.

A graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Chris has a passion for the farming industry and believes that leadership is about bringing out the best in others ( Rotary, 2024)

FURTHER INFORMATION AND QUERIES

Contact Chontelle (KCLG Project Officer)

chontelle@kclg.org.au ~ 0491 624 943

Due to our limited funding it is difficult to cater for every dietary requirement. If you have special dietary requirements please bring your own food and drink.

The Farm Business Resilience Program is jointly funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and the Victorian Government’s Future Agriculture Skills Capacity Fund.

References

Rotary, 2004, Create Hope in the World, Rotary District 9790, Rotary International, accessed 4th March, 2024, < https://www.rotary9790.org.au/50201/Page/ShowSitePage?ClassCode=SitePage&Slug=conference&StorySlug=speakers>

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