Landcare Agriculture Webinar Series
Maximising opportunities for your business
Landcare Agriculture supports farmers, graziers and landholders across Australia with expert advice to improve agriculture and ecological outcomes on their properties. Landcare Agriculture is hosting an ongoing series of free webinars to build knowledge in the area of natural capital accounting and biodiversity.
Spring 2024 webinars:
In the 2024 Spring series we will bring together biodiversity specialists covering science, emerging opportunities and understanding measurement systems, to share their knowledge.
5 December 2024: Understanding Ecosystem Opportunities to fit your business: Carbon
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Carbon in Agriculture: Understanding ecosystem opportunities for business
About this event
Understand the potential of Carbon Management for Your Agricultural Business
Hosted by Landcare Agriculture this webinar offers a unique opportunity for land managers, farmers and graziers to understand how carbon management can impact their agricultural business.
Carbon is a hot topic in Australia’s Agriculture sector but what does it mean at a local, practical level?
Join us for our Landcare Agriculture Webinar on 5 December and learn from industry specialists, scientists, and producers how carbon management can transform your farm.
What you’ll gain:
✅ Latest research tools and strategies to measure, manage, and monitor carbon
✅ Insights on improving farm productivity while enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem health
✅ Practical advice from real-world experiences from scientists and producers
✅ Guidance on carbon opportunities and projects that qualify for carbon credits
💡 Ask the experts: There will be time for a Live Q&A session with the panel!
📅 Date: 5 December 2024 1-3pm NSW AEDT
🔗 Register here: Eventbrite
This webinar, and last month’s webinar – Biodiversity in Agriculture: Maximising opportunities for business – are part of an ongoing Landcare Agriculture series designed to build knowledge and provide the latest information on environmental market opportunities.
Webinar speakers Info:
Dr Warwick Badgery
Dr Warwick Badgery is a research leader with NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) with over 15 years’ research experience on improving the profitability and sustainability of grazing systems and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions under a changing climate. With significant experience in investigating soil carbon under grazing systems, he has led the Central NSW component of the National Soil Carbon Research Project (SCaRP) and helped develop the first pilot pricing scheme for soil carbon in Australia. He is leading the development of the Grazing Intelligence models, to forecast livestock and pasture production in commercial paddocks.
Richard Heath
Richard Health is the Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s largest Cooperative Research Centre, Zero Net Emissions Agriculture CRC. His extensive experience in the Australian agriculture sector extends across multiple high-profile roles including as Executive Director with the Australian Farm Institute, Associate Professor of Agronomy and Farm Management at the University of Sydney and Director at Nuffield Australia Farming Scholars. Richard is a non-executive director of the Grains Research and Development Corporation.
Dr Stephen Wiedemann
Dr Stephen Wiedemann is an agricultural systems scientist and Managing Director at Integrity Ag. He is a leading expert in carbon footprinting and baselining, emission reduction, carbon offset project development and carbon neutral certification. Steve’s experience extends across the full suite of agricultural industries including wool and cotton, as well as beef, lamb, chicken, eggs, pork, cropping and horticulture. He is an expert advisor to the International Wool and Textiles Organisation, the Australian Red Meat Industry, AWI, MLA and the Federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Steve’s work at Integrity Ag & Environment is at the cutting edge of defining and quantifying sustainability in Australia and around the world.
Ian McLean
Ian McLean is Managing Director and Senior Consultant of Bush Agribusiness. Having grown up on a sheep and cattle property and with a background in accounting, agriculture, and consultancy roles, including work with the NT Department of Primary Industries and as Executive Officer at the NT Cattlemen’s Association, Ian brings together science and economics to help producers make informed business decisions.
Melinee Leather
Melinee Leather operates Leather Cattle Co, a grassfed and EU certified humane cattle enterprise in Central Queensland, with her husband Rob and their son and daughter in law. Their three properties span 17 500 ha and are currently running 5 000 head of cattle, where they breed and finish for the Organic, EU and natural pasture fed markets. Melinee has been actively involved in sustainability, advocacy and policy on behalf of the Australian beef industry over the last 16 years and was recently awarded the Success Through Collaboration Award at the Global Conference on Sustainable Beef in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
For Melinee and Rob Leather who own and operate Leather Cattle Co, evidence of the relationship between environmental health and the prosperity of grazing enterprises drives them prioritise and invest in sustainability across their beef business.
Facilitator: Angela Hammond, Landcare Agriculture Program Manager
The new Landcare Agriculture Program, delivered by Landcare Australia, has evolved out of the previous NLN and Landcare Australia partnership project – Landcare Farming. The learnings from the Landcare Farming program helped build this new and more broadly inclusive program and program title.
Check out previous webinars
Landcare Agriculture webinars bring together experts that discuss the latest thinking and opportunities that will unfold for Australia’s agricultural industry.
Webinar: Biodiversity in Agriculture: Maximising opportunities for your business
Is there a financial return – not just an environmental benefit – for farmers from building biodiversity?
Emerging and existing opportunities to boost farm business bottom lines by improving biodiversity will be explained in an upcoming Landcare Agriculture webinar.
Five biodiversity specialists, covering science, emerging opportunities, on-farm management and understanding measurement systems, will share their knowledge.
2022 Webinar: Maximising Ecosystem Opportunities to Fit your Business: Carbon
This webinar covers the latest thinking and a discussion of happenings in the soil carbon world in the past 12 months. Our highly respected Carbon experts will once again make themselves available to discuss the Carbon market, latest research results & changes in this evolving space. In this webinar, the five experts will advise on the latest ‘carbon literacy’ for producers and the role of carbon sequestration solutions in reaching decarbonisation targets, alongside the opportunities that will unfold for Australia’s agricultural industry in the coming years.
Webinar: Understanding the Australian Feedbase Monitor
Alastair Rayner from Cibo Labs demonstrated how the Australian Feedbase Monitor can be used by land managers to support their on farmland management & grazing decisions for every individual property in the country.
Webinar: Tax Implications of Carbon Credit Generation
There have been recent changes to tax laws for primary producers that undertake projects to create ACCUs. In this session, we will discuss these changes, along with other important tax and accounting considerations that primary producers should consider in relation to carbon farming.
2023 Webinar: Maximising Ecosystem Opportunities to Fit your Business: Carbon – Update
What do resilient agricultural investments look like? As economies transition towards lower emissions, new carbon neutrality and emission-efficient technologies are presenting economic, environmental and social market opportunities to Australian producers. In this webinar, Landcare Farming will bring together five experts to advise on ‘carbon literacy’ for producers and the role of carbon sequestration solutions in reaching decarbonisation targets, alongside the opportunities that will unfold for Australia’s agricultural industry in the coming years.
Webinar: Australia’s Soil Carbon Account with FarmLab
Get ready for a deep dive into technology and environmental science. This webinar is designed to help growers understand advanced techniques for soil and environmental measurement, focusing on quantifying soil carbon.
Discover FarmLab’s role in the National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge and how growers can actively participate and benefit.
Learn about groundbreaking research in soil carbon modeling across Australia’s landscape and how it affects agriculture, including cost savings in measurement.
By watching, you’ll gain the knowledge and tools to improve your environmental practices. Embrace technology, explore digital data monitoring, and support sustainable farming.
