2014 Bob Hawke Landcare Award

NSW farmer Colin Seis works a 2000-acre property running around 4000 merino sheep, a merino and kelpie stud, and grows around 500 acres of crops annually. He is known as the pioneer of ‘pasture cropping’, a technique of sowing cereal crops directly into perennial pastures, without killing the pasture. It contributes to the development of topsoil, water management, stabilising soil erosion, controlling weeds, increasing pasture plant numbers and diversity as well as providing great potential for restoring grasslands, increasing soil carbon levels, improving soil health and growing nutrient dense, healthy food.

In the years following his win of the 2016 Bob Hawke Landcare Award, Colin has focused on knowledge sharing with national and international agriculture experts, raising awareness of the ecological benefits of pasture cropping and advocating for farming sustainability.