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24.01.2022 Harry Youngman from Tiverton Investment speaking at Farming Matters Harry Youngman first started to challenge the status quo in his home region near Hamilton in SW Victoria. Soil health has been a focus since the early 2000s, and in 2012 he established a compost production facility to build soil carbon and health. Harry co-founded the Tiverton Ag Impact Fund, which addresses soil health and biodiversity loss, improving ecological function and economic returns. Says Harry, "Our thesis was to approach the move to regenerative ag in reverse order. We identified the outcomes desired in terms of residual DM, diverse rooting architecture and using sunlight to drive a liquid carbon phenomenon, coupled with whole farm biodiversity, and adopted a principal of "Stop doing bad and allow some healing," then build."

21.01.2022 Also at our conference, we are so pleased to have Jenny Bell to give us an artist's interpretation of regenerative agriculture. Jenny was born into a farming family in southern NSW. In the 1980s she studied at the National Art School and received her degree from Sydney College of the Arts. Although from an early age she had an accord with nature and an affinity with farm life she assumed that life drawing classes in Darlinghurst and the challenges of her art education would ...lead to pastures well beyond the farm gate. With a twist of fate she found the reverse was true. The skills of observing, rendering, noticing and persisting acquired during her training were anchored, when after a decade away - she returned. Over time unexpected parallels between the art of farming and visual art revealed themselves. The adoption of holistic management principles and the processes involved in the regeneration of a farm sparked a deepening of these symmetries. The EarthCanvas project, where Jenny was the artist matched with farmers Michael and Anna Coughlan, was a catalyst for her to examine, understand and articulate the meeting of these worlds. Jenny will share her insights into this creative convergence.

20.01.2022 14 Jan 2019: EOV Monitoring Process Proves Quick and Supportive. In less than 4 months the new environmental accreditation, Ecological Outcome Verification, has set up its first 20 baseline sites, proving the process is fast and collaborative. Using rigorous scientific methodology, the monitoring measures soil health and biology, ecosystem processes, plant species and biodiversity. Read more: http://landtomarket.com.au//MediaRelease-EOV-Rollout-Quick

19.01.2022 Introducing another of our speakers, Lyn Sykes, who is well renown and respected in farming family circles. Lyn has been a leader in the traditionally male world of agriculture. For more than three decades she has made a significant contribution by raising awareness of and improving the skills relating to communication and succession. Lyn is recognised as the pioneer of a family focused approach to succession planning centered on a facilitated family meeting clarifying the v...isions and goals of each member in order to develop a shared way forward. She has worked to develop a cooperative approach to the sensitive area of succession, including cooperation between family members and their professional advisors. At the height of this work facilitating in excess of 100 family meetings year in all States. Lyn has also had a long time involvement chairing other sensitive topics and was the independent chair of the Environmental Flows Group in the Macquarie River from its inception until 2013. Lyn has had considerable involvement in many Leadership, communication and conflict resolution workshops. She believes when groups work cooperatively and harness the strengths of these differences great things are possible. Lyn is a sought after speaker as her humor, challenging style and long experience are a great asset to training leadership development or conferences. Lyn Sykes Communication 1 East Street, Dubbo NSW 2830 Mob: 0419 602 621 Email: [email protected]

18.01.2022 Tess Herbert on Building Natural Capital at Farming Matters As a farmer, feedlot owner-operator and farming advocate, Tess Herbert has a unique perspective on Natural Capital. Tess believes beef producers need to play a key role in protecting and improving Australias Natural Capital, as they manage about half of the nations landmass, including areas that cannot support other food production. Tess chairs the steering group of the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework a ...whole-of-industry initiative to define sustainable beef production and report performance. In her presentation, Tess will highlight that as an industry, improving Natural Capital and reporting this will address many stakeholders concerns; provide access to future natural capital investment; and leave the land in a better condition for the future. If youd like to know more you can watch a profile about Tess and her family here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54CyKnqAD38

17.01.2022 Event details for FARMING MATTERS Conference and Field Days (23-25 March 2020, Albury NSW) can be found HERE: http://landtomarket.com.au/FarmingMatters2020/index.php Thankyou to our conference partner Regenerative Agriculture Alliance and Carbon Farmers of Australia

17.01.2022 Some snapshots from an Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV) training day for Australian Holistic Management Co-Op members. Beautiful photos taken by Judith Crispin

17.01.2022 Also at our conference, we are so pleased to have Jenny Bell to give us an artists interpretation of regenerative agriculture. Jenny was born into a farming family in southern NSW. In the 1980s she studied at the National Art School and received her degree from Sydney College of the Arts. Although from an early age she had an accord with nature and an affinity with farm life she assumed that life drawing classes in Darlinghurst and the challenges of her art education would ...lead to pastures well beyond the farm gate. With a twist of fate she found the reverse was true. The skills of observing, rendering, noticing and persisting acquired during her training were anchored, when after a decade away - she returned. Over time unexpected parallels between the art of farming and visual art revealed themselves. The adoption of holistic management principles and the processes involved in the regeneration of a farm sparked a deepening of these symmetries. The EarthCanvas project, where Jenny was the artist matched with farmers Michael and Anna Coughlan, was a catalyst for her to examine, understand and articulate the meeting of these worlds. Jenny will share her insights into this creative convergence.

15.01.2022 Our KEYNOTE speaker is Allan Savory. How good is that!!? Allan Savory, born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa (University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany) pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertificatio...n of the worlds grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions. He served as a Member of Parliament in the latter days of Zimbabwes civil war and became the leader of the opposition to the ruling party headed by Ian Smith. Exiled in 1979 as a result of his opposition, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued to work with land managers through his consulting business. The growth of that business, a desire to assist many more people and the need for furthering his work led him to continue its development in the nonprofit world. In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, donating a ranch that would serve as a learning site for people all over Africa. In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support. The Africa Centre became the first of the Savory Institutes locally led and managed hubs. Savorys book, Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment, Third Edition (Island Press, 2016), describes his effort to find workable solutions ordinary people could implement to overcome many of the problems besetting communities and businesses today. In 2003, Allan Savory received Australias International Banksia Award for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale, and in 2010 Savory (and the Africa Centre) received the Buckminster Fuller Institutes Challenge award for work that has significant potential to solve humanitys most pressing problems. A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has received close to 7 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time. In 2015 he received the Mary G. Enig Integrity in Science Award from The Weston A. Price Foundation. See more

14.01.2022 19 May 2019: Back to Nature: Making money while restoring the land ABC Landline broadcast on regenerative agriculture, with members and supporters of Land to Market Australia https://www.abc.net.au//back-to-nature:-making-mo/11126866

14.01.2022 Our next speaker Chris Balazs is really special, because apart from his presentation on producing highly nutritious, ethically grown, grass-fed meat, from regenerating farms, he is also providing this meat for our conference dinner! (Tip: Dont miss out; places limited). Chris Balazs is the CEO and Co-Founder of Provenir , one of the leaders pioneering true paddock to plate produce, through on-farm mobile abattoir technology. Chriss innovative and adaptive approach to an em...erging sector of the food industry has seen Provenir achieve great growth over the last year, and has bought a whole new disruptive technology to the red meat industry that will improve animal welfare standards whilst increasing farmers slice of the value chain. A scientist by profession Chris has had the opportunity to work on global technology transfer projects and complete his MBA. He recently transitioned from this successful 20yr corporate career to focusing full time on ag-tech innovation. Previously a scientist by profession, now a farmer by choice, his combination of scientific knowledge, farming practicality and business acumen has enabled the dream of on-farm livestock processing to become a reality in Australia. See more

13.01.2022 Anna Rose is an Australian author, speaker and environmentalist who works on a number of strategic initiatives to help Australia tackle the climate crisis. Annas climate change journey began in high school and continued at University, where she co-founded the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and was National Co-Director for five years. Anna has appeared on the ABCs Q+A program, written articles and books, and starred in documentaries. In 2019 Anna was named one of the ...Australian Financial Reviews 100 Women of Influence. Representing Farmers for Climate Action at the Farming Matters conference, Anna will speak about Engaging Courageously in Confronting the Climate Challenge. You can find out more about Anna at her website: https://annarose.net.au Read some of Annas musings: https://www.dumbofeather.com/a/life-lessons-from-the-ocean/ Watch Annas documentary I Can Change Your Mind on Climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p9Xo-RcC2U&t=68s See more

12.01.2022 Another speaker is friend and colleague Brian Wehlburg. No-one is more passionate or done more to educate people about Holistic Management and Regenerative Ag in Australia. From Zimbabwe, Brian Wehlburg migrated to Australia in 2001. His initial experience as an educator was gained as an instructor with the Army Parachute School. Following this he obtained an agricultural diploma and, in 1981, after two years as a farm manager started his own agricultural enterprise, growing... crops for export, breeding cattle and operating a safari/wildlife conservancy. An introductory Holistic Management course in 1995 with Allan inspired Brian to implement his new knowledge, using grazing as a tool to improve the environment with resulting significant pasture improvement and regeneration of water seeps. In 1998 he completed the Holistic Management Educators course and started teaching Allans work. Since arriving in Australia Brian broadened this hands-on experience, working for a pastoral enterprise in SW Queensland as a pasture/cattle manager, a grazing consultant, and managing a grazing property in New South Wales. He enjoys sharing his passion for environmental improvement and grazing management. Through Inside Outside Management Brian works with diverse groups, including Landcare, LLS and CMA groups, and family businesses across Australia delivering Holistic Management training. He helped develop and deliver the first nationally accredited TAFE Holistic Management Diploma, and continues his active role with the Educator group as well as mentoring new Holistic Management Educators for Australia. See more

10.01.2022 For the FIRST time that I know of, Jody Butterfield - whose tireless work is so often behind the scenes, will be speaking in Australia. Jody is a Savory Institute co-founder who has worked over the last 30 years to communicate the story of Holistic Management, initially as a free-lance writer and then as a collaborator with husband Allan Savory on books, articles and papers, including the basic texts still in use today. Over those years she has been a keen observer of the ma...ny thousands of farmers and pastoralists struggling to adopt the new ideas underpinning the success of regenerative agriculture, noting what worked, what didnt and why. Shell share some of those observations with us as well as recent research that shows the difference a Holistic Management mindset, practice and community can make in transitioning successfully from a conventional to a regenerative operation. See more

09.01.2022 Land to Market Australia Recognised as Grand Champions 23 October 2019! L2MA won the Grand Champion Award in the Australian Government Innovation in Agriculture Land Management category at the 2019 Landcare NSW Awards.... See Savory Institute Media Release; Land to Market Australia Awarded for Innovation in Agriculture: https://www.savory.global/land-to-market-australia-awarded/

09.01.2022 FULL PROGRAM for the FARMING MATTERS Land to Market Australia Conference and Field Days now available here: http://landtomarket.com.au/FarmingMatters20/program2020.php

09.01.2022 Media release: Allan Savory to headline Farming Matters 2020 21 Jan 2020: Allan Savory, founder of Holistic Management and the Savory Global Network (Savory Institute), will be the keynote at the Farming Matters For Our Love of the Land conference, to be held at Albury in March 2020. Extreme weather conditions are asking tough questions about how best to build resilient landscapes, and this conference will host a range of practitioners experienced in innovative, proven methods of building natural capital, soil health and biodiversity within prosperous rural businesses. http://landtomarket.com.au/News/News-HMConference2020.pdf

08.01.2022 16 Sep 2019: Internationally Recognised Ecological Farming Logo Launches in Australia NEWS RELEASE: Australian farmers improving the health of their land now have access to an internationally recognized logo to advertise their sustainability credentials. The Land to Market logo from the award-winning Savory Institute, based in the United States, will be rolled out among Australian program participants from October 2019.

07.01.2022 Emily Little from Young Farmers Connect speaking at Farming Matters Emily co-manages a multi-enterprise farm, Old Hill Farm, on NSWs Mid-North Coast. The property is working towards providing pastured lamb, vegetables, and sustainably sourced timber to the local community. In November last year, Emily and her husband were forced to flee their home when the bushfires tore through the village of Bobin and have only recently returned to their land to begin the task of rebuildin...g and starting from scratch. Their business and community work now focuses on engaging the wider community in landscape restoration to mitigate future climate-fuelled extreme events. In addition, Emily is a key coordinator of the Young Famers Connect (YFC), an organisation dedicated to providing assistance and resources for young or new farmers who are entering the industry. You can listen to Emily being interviewed on ABC Drive here: https://www.abc.net.au///young-farmers-conference/12002242 See more

07.01.2022 Gary Nairn speaking at Farming Matters After 25 years in the surveying and mapping profession, including his own business, Gary Nairn was elected the Federal Member for Eden-Monaro in 1996. His 12 year parliamentary career included Parliamentary Secretary to PM John Howard with responsibility for water reform and Special Minister of State with responsibility for e-government, the AEC and five GBEs. Post-Parliament he operated his own spatial sciences consultancy, was the ina...ugural Chairman of the NT Planning Commission and Chairman of the Tasmanian Spatial Information Council. Gary has been Chairman of The Mulloon Institute since 2016, is Chairman of the The Duke of Edinburghs International Award in Australia and is a Board Member of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust . He was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2015 for his contribution to the Parliament of Australia; to communities of NSW & NT; to surveying & spatial sciences; and to disability support services. See more

07.01.2022 POSTPONED In light of daily updates on the risk of COVID-19, and the challenges in keeping a high value program in place, the board of the Australian Holistic Management Co-operative has taken the difficult decision to postpone this conference, planned for 23-25 March 2020. We hope to regroup and hold the same event in September this year in the same location. For a full statement, click here: https://www.landtomarket.com.au/CancellationLetter.pdf

04.01.2022 I am so looking forward to hearing Walter Jehne at our conference, especially on restoring water and carbon cycles. Walter Jehne is an internationally recognized soil microbiologist and innovation strategist. He has immense field and research experience in soils, grasslands, agriculture and forests at local, national (CSIRO and Science Adviser to Australias National Soil Advocate), international (UN) level. Walter has a remarkable ability to explain complex science and econo...mic paths forward in easy to understand ways. This comes in part because he has also worked extensively beyond science. at Federal Government level, leading transformation in industry and policy. It is this rounded out diversity of experience that has given Walter a unique and exceptional capacity to devise solutions turning challenges into opportunities. His specialisation is the role of soil microbes symbiotic processes in the ecology of diseases, plant health, nutrient and waste cycling, soil pedogenesis and the regeneration of bio-systems. Decades of research have made him expert in plant root ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin, and soil carbon formation. He also has world on biologys enormous influences in hydrological cycles, weather patterns, regional and global cooling, and cloud formation and rain precipitation. Walters initial extensive research work was on the roles of these microbial ecologies in forests, agriculture and the rehydration and regeneration of degraded lands. Recent work this past decade and a half since retirement, with Healthy Soils Australia and now Regenerate Earth, has focused on commercializing leading bio-innovations. These will urgently help restore agro-ecosystems and urban agriculture and ecologies so as to help meet our water, food, habitat, carbon draw down, rehydration imperative. He is determined in advancing the practical verification, application and extension of these innovations, including for cities and their safe secure supply chains to sustain the current 8 and projected 10 billion people by mid-century.

04.01.2022 Watch this video to hear Lorraine Gordon Director of Strategic Projects Farming Together, Regenerative Agriculture Alliance Southern Cross University share her thoughts leading up to the Farming Matters Conference in March 2021.

03.01.2022 There is a fantastic program of speakers for the Conference: Farming Matters - for our love of the land. Well introduce as many as we can over the coming weeks, starting now with Rowan Reid. Rowan (B.For.Sci. & M.For.Sci.) is a forester amongst farmers. His latest book is "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit". Rowan won the Australian Eureka Prize for his farmer course (The Australian Master TreeGrower), which he continues to deliver ...around Australia and internationally (Africa, Timor Leste, Indonesia etc.). Rowan has lectured a subject in agroforestry at Melbourne University since 1991 and is now the managing director of the Australian Agroforestry Foundation. Most importantly, Rowan is also a farmer and tree grower in his own right, with a family farm in the Otway Ranges of southern Victoria and a founder of one of Australias most successful Landcare groups, the Otway Agroforestry Network. More than 12,000 visitors have toured his Bambra Agroforestry Farm, which is set up as a 42-hectare outdoor classroom for farmers, scientists, students and tree lovers, and a living laboratory for his own learning. www.agroforestry.net.au EMAIL: [email protected] Australian Agroforestry & the Master TreeGrower

03.01.2022 Our next speaker is David Farley. David Farley is an accomplished Executive Leader, Chairman & CEO with a life-long, global career in agribusiness. David achieved a portfolio of success leading publicly listed and private organisations with revenues in the hundreds of millions through significant growth, transformation and change. Leveraging a broad knowledge base of soft commodity trading, international investment, distribution network design and optimisation and co-operativ...e sales and marketing structures David is a passionate agricultural policy advocate and global markets, technology and innovation enthusiast, a recognised thought leader, David holds strong networks and relationships with institutional agricultural fund investors (USA, UK & Australia), government stakeholders, and capital markets and across the global agribusiness sector. See more

02.01.2022 Pete Lewis in conversation with Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield at Farming Matters. Pete is the director of Brisbane-based consultancy Way With Words after a 40 year career in print and broadcast journalism. He currently works with a range of rural stakeholders, from government, statutory and commodity peak bodies, to academia, advocacy groups and non-profits. Pete is a former National Rural and Regional Reporter for ABC News & Current Affairs, foreign correspondent and Ex...ecutive Producer of the ABCs award-winning national rural affairs programme ABC Landline. He is a delegate to the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ), President of the Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists (ACAJ) and former President of the Rural Press Club Queensland. See more

01.01.2022 Did I say we had a fantastic line-up of speakers? Charles Massey writes and speaks superbly, and bravely, and doesnt hold back! Charles Massy gained a Bachelor of Science (Zoology; Human Ecology) at ANU in 1976 before going farming for 35 years and developing the prominent Merino sheep stud Severn Park. Concern at ongoing land degradation and humanitys sustainability challenge led him to return to ANU in 2009 to undertake a PhD in Human Ecology. Charles was awarded an Or...der of Australia Medal for his services as Chair and Director of a number of research organizations and statutory wool boards. He has also served on national and international review panels in sheep and wool research and development and genomics. Charles has authored several books on the Australian sheep and wool industry, the most recent being the widely acclaimed Breaking the Sheeps Back (UQP 2011), which was short-listed for the Prime Ministers Australian Literary Awards in Australian History in 2012. Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture - a New Earth is Charless fourth book; it has attained best-seller status, and has been shortlisted for the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards - Non-Fiction Book Award, the 2018 Waverley Library Award and the 2018 ABIA Book Awards - Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year. See more

01.01.2022 Tony Hill speaks on Ecological Outcome Verification at Farming Matters Tony teaches Holistic Management in NSW and is an accredited professional with the Savory Institute. With a background in economics, policy making, regional development, ecology and biodiversity, he has worked for government and consulted on design applications for Cooperative Research Centres. Tony chairs the Australian Holistic Management Cooperative, has been a member of the Upper Shoalhaven Landcare Council, and is an accredited teacher of the NSW TAFE Holistic Management Diploma. He is the founder of the Land to Market Australia project incorporating Ecological Outcome Verification.

01.01.2022 Louisa Kiely speaks about the challenges of Carbon Farming at Farming Matters Louisa co-founded the Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming (now Carbon Farmers of Australia) in February 2006 to lobby for the right of Australian landholders to trade on the emissions offset market the credits they can earn by sequestering carbon in their soils and landscapes. She has since travelled extensively, meeting scientists and farmers to spread the word about Carbon Farming. Louisa orga...nised and ran Australias first National Carbon Farming Expo & Conference in Mudgee in November 2007, followed by Orange in 2008 and 2009. The 8th annual National Carbon Farming Conference & Expo was held in 2015, and in 2019 the conference had close to 400 delegates and 35 exhibitors. Louisa also founded the @National Carbon Cocky Awards, rewarding farmers who are reducing emissions and sequestering carbon on farm. For her efforts she was the 2008 NSW Runner Up RIRDC Rural Woman of the Year. Between 1998 and 2017 Louisa was a fine wool grower near Mudgee, NSW. You can see Louisa in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q61EyYnC7l0 See more