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Farming Together

The Farming Together Team

NEW SEASON OUT NOW! In this season, Pippa Jones - a farmer, extension officer, and Nuffield Scholar - is chatting with farmers who are putting science-backed information into practice and testing ways to reduce emissions and strengthening their farm businesses. Across six episodes, you’ll hear from farmers who are trying out research-informed tools, ideas and technologies. We delve into what sparked each journey, what’s been challenging, what’s paid off, and what farmers would do differently next

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Stay tuned... this series of Ground Cover is not...

Farming Together ·

2019/11/05

Stay tuned... this series of Ground Cover is not quite over yet. We'll be taking a short break for a couple of weeks, then we'll be back with a big announcement that you won't want to miss.In the meantime, join the conversation on social media via our facebook page, and you can join our email list by emailing raa@scu.edu.au

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35:37

Regenerating soils and communities with Helen and...

Farming Together ·

2019/10/29

Kerry talks with Helen and Mike McCosker about the important of regenerating not only soil, but also communities.The McCosker family run Angus on a 3000 acre mixed farming enterprise at Wallangra, north of Inverell. Helen is a CPA with senior management experience working in the large corporate space. A passion for the arts and music. Mike is a fourth generation farmer with extensive experience in carbon farming and teaching farmers about soil health and regenerative agriculture. He was one of the

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33:40

The five landscape functions in practice with...

Farming Together ·

2019/10/22

Today on Ground Cover, our host Kerry Cochrane, explores the five landscape functions and how they play out on Tim Wright's property.Tim is a livestock producer, and holistic management farmer, from Armidale on the Northern Tablelands of NSW. The Wrights are a pioneering family of the New England, Tim bucked the traditional farming approach of his ancestors to go where many were not brave enough to go. A holistic farmer in the true sense, who questioned traditional practices, and ventured into

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24:32

Out of the ashes with multi species pasture cropping...

Farming Together ·

2019/10/15

Today, Kerry chats with Colin Seis; a mixed farmer from the Gulgong area of New South Wales. Col has come from a traditional cropping and grazing family and experienced an ecological crash back in the 1970s. This set them up to be quite vulnerable to the bushfires that came afterwards. In those fires, Col lost everything and was badly burned. He had rebuild everything from the ground up. And he started to think about the future survival of himself, his family and his farm. So his focus quickly

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29:13

From little things big things grow with 6th...

Farming Together ·

2019/10/08

On Ground Cover today, Kerry is joined by Michael Taylor, a sixth generation wool producer from Kentucky, on the Northern Tablelands of NSW. Michael's family were one of the original settlers of the New England region. His parents, John and Vicky Taylor, discovered the real causes of the New England die back problem. The family tradition of experimentation and continuous learning is certainly instilled in Michael's approach to farming.Michael is our Agroforestry champion; diversifying his farm

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32:27

It all starts with the soil with Derek Smith

Farming Together ·

2019/10/01

Today, Kerry chats with Derek Smith, a mixed farmer from Guyra who has come along the journey from conventional to regenerative farmer.Derek started his days at the Orange Ag college and over the years experienced a number of problems on his property from crop health issues, animal health issues, weeds, fungal diseases, and insects and pests. Derek was always on the look out for a silver bullet that just wasn't there. So, Derek found himself asking some pretty critical questions of himself and his

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36:12

From bare paddock to diverse landscape with Bruce...

Farming Together ·

2019/09/24

Today, Kerry Cochrane talks with Bruce Maynard, a mixed farmer from Narromine, NSW, who was a conventional farmer, direct drilling for a decade or so, before making the switch to regenerative practices. From bare paddocks to diversity, from nature to nurture, this is a conversation exploring the journey that has seen Bruce affectionately known as 'the King of no kill cropping'. This the story of a man who was not happy with the notion of taking everything, other than what you were trying to grow, to

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04:40

An introduction to Ground Cover - a series exploring...

Farming Together ·

2019/09/17

Welcome to the introductory episode of Ground Cover – a podcast for farmers by farmers.This podcast is brought you by the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, in partnership with Southern Cross University.Ground Cover is a uniquely Australian series exploring real-life stories of land managers who have undertaken the transition from conventional farming to regenerative agriculture.Each week the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance will bring you a unique and honest conversation about the challenges and

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35:23

The regenerative agriculture revolution with Dr...

Farming Together ·

2019/09/17

Today, on Ground Cover, Kerry Cochrane speaks to renown author and regenerative farming revolutionary, Dr Charles Massy; a well known grazier from Cooma in the southern Snowies of NSW. A man, who through a paradigm shift in a very tough drought, realised his ignorance as a conventional and industrial farmer, to go on and become a famous author and academic.In this episode Charlie talks about:the time for change being ripe and farmers being intimate with their own landscape and environmentchallenging

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