Low input pasture management & pasture cropping workshop - Narrandera

Hosted by Strontian Road Landcare.

* No Kill Cropping * complementary pastures * low cost, flexible crops * within grasslands * native grasses * low-input management * improved soil & stock health

Presenters:

Colin Seis (Winner of the 2014 Bob Hawke Landcare Award)
&
Graeme Hand (Stipa Native Grasses Association)

Date: Tuesday 17 March 2015
Time: 9.00am
Venue: Bolton Street Room Narrandera Ex-Servicemen’s Club
Cost: FREE. Morning tea & lunch provided

Colin Seis is a landholder from Gulgong, NSW. Since 1996 he has been developing and fine-tuning 'Pasture Cropping' and 'No Kill Cropping' methods. Pasture Cropping is a technique of sowing cereal crops directly into native perennial pastures. It combines grazing and cropping into a single land use method where each one benefits the other economically and environmentally. No Kill Cropping is a method that sows crops into existing plant and litter cover without eliminating any other plants. It works on the complementary effects of diverse pastures rather than competition factors. It is a very low cost, flexible approach to crop growing that gives growers flexibility throughout the growing season. These two cropping systems are the only ones in the world that work within grasslands rather than replacing grasslands to grow crops, and they have been increasingly adopted by landholders across Australia and internationally over the past 15 years.

» http://www.pasturecropping.com/

Graeme Hand is a landholder from Victoria and CEO of Stipa Native Grasses Association. Stipa is an organisation that was formed in 1997 by concerned landholders. It focuses on the practical aspects of native grasses and their use in farming. Stipa promotes practical, low-cost, low-input methods of managing native and improved native pastures for improved soil and stock health, particularly utilising adaptive stock management as an effective pasture management tool. Graeme  is a Holistic Management Certified Educator and has conducted workshops across Australia.

» http://www.stipa.com.au/

RSVP by 13th March 2015 to Karen Jamieson, Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc, ph.(02) 6933 1443, office@mli.org.au