14 & 15 Oct 2014 – NCCMA Workshop on Pasture Cropping & Grazing Management
Posted on 14 September, 2014 by Connecting Country
The North Central CMA is hosting a two day intensive workshop on Pasture Cropping and Grazing Management, which will take place in Newstead (at the football clubrooms) on 14 & 15 October 2014. An on-farm visit will be included in the workshop.
The workshop will feature industry specialists Colin Seis and Graeme Hand. Graeme Hand was a presenter at a Connecting Country workshop held in Yandoit in 2012. The aim of this workshop is to provide commercial farmers with a ‘how-to of Pasture Cropping and Grazing Management’.
Colin Seis will present information on how to transition from conventional cropping to pasture cropping including:
- The history of pasture cropping
- The benefits of pasture cropping
- Keys to successfully integrating grazing into a cropping cycle
- How to create resilient and diverse pasturesMachinery, fertilisers, herbicides (if any)
Graeme Hand will present on what it takes for successful adoption of Planned Grazing including:
- Enterprise design- Adjusting stocking rate at a profit
- Animal phenotype and the impact of no inputs, grass genetics and immunity
- Infrastructure- staging changes
- Monitoring- recovery, dung, gut fill, water and the importance of corrective action
- Perennial grass- litter, decomposition, diversity
- Training- making decisions within the correct context, how to set up a practice paddock and planning
You can see Colin’s story online at here. Colin also features as one of the 19 case studies of innovative farm landscape management conducted by Soils for Life in 2012 (visit the Soils for Life website and case studies).
Graeme Hand is a Holistic Management Certified Educator. Graeme was taught by Alan Savory (see Savory website for more). Graeme learnt much through observing and through his own experience on his farm and other people’s farms.
Places are strictly limited. To secure a place RSVP to the North Central CMA before Monday 13th October to p: (03) 5448 7124 or e: info@nccma.vic.gov.au
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