Farmers Helping Farmers

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Farmers Helping Farmers: soil health, soil function and grassroots agriculture Celebrating the people at the grassroots of agriculture who are doing things differently. Hosted by fifth generation Australian farmer and VicNoTill president Dan Fox, ‘Farmers Helping Farmers’ asks the tough questions and, most importantly, give the honest answers. Subscribe, leave a review and listen now. You can also become a VicNoTill member or sponsor. Web: www.vicnotill.com.au Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VicNoTillFarmers Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicnotill Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/

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JAKE CHANDLER - Farming for the environment can be profitable

Mar 10 2024 54 mins  
Young farmer Jake Chandler has always had a deep connection with all things agricultural, and has experienced the landscape from many perspectives. The son of an Ag teacher, he worked as a jackaroo in the Northern Territory before studying environmental science at university then moved into a corporate career in the mining industry. After falling in love with and marrying Gemma Wi

TRAN$ITION23 SERIES: MATT TONKIN - The road to regeneration

Jan 13 2024 53 mins  
The road to regeneration with NSW farm manager and Sober in the Country Bush Tribe Member Matt Tonkin looks at how important it is for farmers to be profitable, not only in the financial sense but also from personal and landscape perspectives. When Matt's life on the land hit rock bottom he realised he needed to make big changes. Instead of a farming system that relied on chem

PHIL PETERSON - Building carbon in soils Part 2

Jan 04 2024 49 mins  
Join our host Dan Fox in Part 2 of an indepth conversation with Phil Peterson about rebuilding soil carbon on farms. Dan has talked numerous times with Phil in the paddock, and wanted to capture some of these conversations in a podcast. He spoke to him earlier in the year but still had so many questions that he has recorded a follow up. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, we sug

TRAN$ITION23 SERIES - NAKALA MADDOCK: A fascinating insight into worm farming

Sep 26 2023 32 mins  
The worms at NutriSoil are treated like royalty, because they are the key to sustainability, healthy soils, plant, human and planet health. Nakala Maddock is the chief executive officer of the Baranduda-based business and is helping Nutrisoil take worm farming to all new heights. Nakala, also the host of the Biological Farming Roundtable Podcast, stepped out from behind the hosting

TRAN$ITION23 SERIES - COL BOWEY: Key principals of a soil building system

Sep 06 2023 41 mins  
Our host Dan Fox catches up with Col Bowey from CB Farming Systems, who was one of the guest speakers at VicNoTill's 2023 conference. Col also led a soil pit discussion and spent the week visiting NSW farms. Col says success in farming always comes down to having a good ‘farming system’ in place. In 2008 he founded CB Farming Systems and dedicated himself to learning as mu

TRAN$ITION23 SERIES - TIM PARTON: Farmers Are Heroes, Nobody Else Can Do What We Do

Aug 01 2023 42 mins  
UK arable farmer of the year and Green Farm Collective founding member Tim Parton spent a week in Australia as part of VicNoTill's annual conference TRAN$ITION23. As well as inspiring over 100 farmers in the conference room, Tim hung out in soil pits and dug into soils with a shovel to gain a deeper understanding of regenerative farming systems in the Australian context. Dan Fo

TOM BRIGGS - Lessons About Context And Nutrition When Shifting To A Regenerative Farming System

Jul 03 2023 45 mins  
In this episode of Farmers Helping Farmers our host Dan Fox catches up with vice president Tom Briggs. As a third generation farmer in Victoria, Australia, Tom was never a big fan of school; especially the reading and research assignments that were required. But since discovering the practice of regenerative agriculture there isn’t enough reading, research reports and information

PHIL PETERSON - Building carbon in soils, Part 1

May 18 2023 34 mins  
In this episode of Farmers Helping Farmers our host Dan Fox catches up with Phil Peterson who is passionate about rebuilding soil carbon on farms. In the many conversations Dan has had with Phil in the paddock, this passion has come through clearly, and Dan thought it was about time he captured some of these conversations in a podcast episode. Phil has been at the grassroots of agr

FRASER POGUE: The Good Dirt on Good Farming

Apr 04 2023 28 mins  
In 2016 a VicNoTill story with Ardmona irrigation farmer Fraser Pogue’s began with: ‘The pages in books might be black and white but farming certainly isn’t.’ The analogy drew on Fraser’s ever-increasing book collection on soil biology and his pursuit of a new way of farming that was outside the norm, and definitely not black and white. Fraser and his wife Leanne are alw

DR TERRY MCCOSKER – Rewarding Farmers For Their Natural Capital

Feb 28 2023 37 mins  
One of the world’s most respected leaders in soil health, carbon sequestration and regenerative agriculture Dr Terry McCosker struggled terribly in primary and high school, before discovering he 'learnt by doing'. Since then he has never stopped learning or doing, and is one of the masterminds behind farmers getting paid for improved land management practices and building their s