After a long association with Pat Coleby, Farming Secrets were very fortunate to be invited to Pat’s farm to film. This unique VIDEO opens with a rare look at Pat talking about her life. It includes an interview with Pat around her kitchen table and follows with shots of Pat addressing a group of farmers. The VIDEO concludes with Pat talking about her various books.

You will see a free range stock supplement system that enhances their cow health, free range chooks for diversification and the challenges of transition from conventional to organic.

Peter takes us on a journey retracing the history of landscapes before man intervened. He shows us through a series of historical photos how the land used to be when water stayed in the landscape. We urgently need to regenerate the landscape and restore its functioning by retaining the water.

Regenerative Agriculture is now being used as a term for then many farming systems that use techniques that can increase soil organic carbon. Regeneration is far more than being sustainable. Sustainable is defined as keeping the present system stable without degrading or running it down.

Ron and Bev Smith are dairy farmers at “Orana”, Fish Creek in Gippsland, Victoria. For the last 30 years and more they have worked hard to turn a challenging tract of land into a profitable biodynamic dairy farm. While raising 11 children they have applied the rules of nature to farm at first organically and now biodynamically. and humans.

The Course begins as soon as you register. It’s a self-paced course where you can access the Lessons anytime once they are released. Lessons are from the recording of the 2 Day Workshop presented by Dr Elaine Ingham. You have lifetime access to the course, once they are made available online they remain there for you to access permanently.

Soil Health Bootcamp: Go From Inspired To Advocate in 14 Days. Watch this program at home so you to discover new skills & ideas all about soil health and regenerative farming. This program was recorded via a live summit event

Join hundreds of farmers building soil's fertility by increasing Soil Organic Carbon!   Soil Organic Carbon (Or SOC for short), is the BEST way to increase your farm's soil fertility. However, under many conventional methods, the pathways that build SOC are blocked. Worse then this, conventional methods also cause for SOC loss too!   This Soil Organic Carbon Advanced Masterclass will help you to learn how these pathways function, and what you can do to allow these pathways to produce soil organic carbon quickly and efficiently.   In the Soil Organic Carbon Masterclass, you'll learn:

• What is Soil Organic Carbon?
• The Chemical, Physical and Biological benefits of SOC
• How SOC can make your farm drought resistant.
• Decomposition Pathway
• Benefits of the Decomposition pathway
• Liquid Carbon Pathway
• Benefits of the Liquid Carbon Pathway
• Decomposition Vs Liquid Carbon
• How to Maximise the Decomposition Pathway
• How to Maximise the Liquid Carbon Pathway
• How to prevent SOC loss

Landscape function and grassland condition are important indicators of the health of a landscape and its capability to retain water and nutrient re-serves and respond vigorously to good growing conditions. Being able to accurately and quickly assess function and condition enables land managers to improve plant and animal performance at low cost and risk and reduces vulnerability to difficult conditions.

The speakers at this conference make a living from their decisions relating to various native pasture management regimes in their various enterprises.

What was your answer? Why do we ask? Because these are all part of the great topics presented at this year’s Stipa conference. The Stipa presentations were at once stimulating and provocative with the information which in most cases resulted from 1000’s of hours of research, much of it mind-boggling and far too much to retain in the short time provided.