General News
13 November, 2022
Regenerative farm workshop
LODDON Plains Landcare Network hosted Colin Seis for a workshop at the LPLN Goods Shed base in Inglewood last week. Colin is a regenerative farmer from New South Wales running farming enterprises in Merino sheep, native seed harvesting and a Kelpie...
LODDON Plains Landcare Network hosted Colin Seis for a workshop at the LPLN Goods Shed base in Inglewood last week.
Colin is a regenerative farmer from New South Wales running farming enterprises in Merino sheep, native seed harvesting and a Kelpie stud from his property, Winona in the central Tablelands.
He is a renowned and respected regenerative farmer, and founded the practice of pasture cropping with friend and neighbour, Daryl Cluff in the 1990s.
A respected speaker, Colin is a pioneer of growing and managing native pastures and perennial species to improve feed gaps, vegetation cover, maintain soil health and improve biodiersity across farming landscapes.
Attendees had an interactive and informative presentation with Colin in the morning prior to going to a Kurting farming property to gain hands-on experience and knowledge of native pasture through a paddock walk with Colin evaluating soil and plant health according to the different land uses and how intervention from animals and humans can impact the soil, plant roots, and plant growth.
The day focussed on grazing practices and how to make farms more productive and more profitable by using native and perenial pastures in a livestock system, with the ability to increase productivity through cropping over the top of these pastures by improving farm management practices, and ultimately contributing to improvements in soil health, environmental outcomes, and agricultural productivity while reaping the benefits of economic profitability. “The workshop was a great success. Colin is a fantastic speaker and is incredibly knowledgeable. His wisdom and insight gained through decades of experience is transferable across farming landscapes and was incredibly insightful to those that attended”, LPLN regenerative agriculture facilitator Danny Pettingill said. The workshop and field day is part of a series of events run by the network’s Loddon Plains Future Farmers Regenerative Agriculture group through support from the Federal Government National Landcare Program and North Central Catchment Management Authority.
Loddon Plains Landcare Network’s next event is the annual general meeting November 24.