Landcare Farming Webinar Series
The Landcare Farming Webinar Series supports farmers, graziers and landholders from across Australia with expert advice to improve agricultural and ecological outcomes on their properties.
Australia's Soil Carbon Account with FarmLab
An understanding of farm carbon accounting and emissions reduction options are essential to empower the decision-making of primary producers.
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.
Prof Richard Eckard (Vic) - Speaker
Richard is Professor of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, the University of Melbourne, and Director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, a research centre addressing the impacts of a changing climate on agriculture. His research focuses on carbon farming and accounting towards carbon neutral agriculture, managing extreme climate events and options for agriculture to respond to a changing climate. Richard is a science advisor to the Australian, New Zealand, UK and EU governments, the International Livestock Research Institute and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on climate change adaptation, mitigation and policy development in agriculture. Richard was recently named on the Reuters list of the world’s 1,000 most influential climate scientists.
Dr Warwick Badgery (NSW) – Speaker
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. Warwick has significant experience in investigating soil C under grazing systems, 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, working across the MLA Carbon Storage and Emissions Avoidance Partnerships, is a board member of Monaro Farming Systems and has adjunct positions with Melbourne University and China Agriculture University.
Dr Stephen Wiedemann (QLD) – Speaker
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. Stephen’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. Stephen’s work at Integrity Ag is at the cutting edge of defining and quantifying sustainability in Australia and around the world.
Andrew Jones (QLD)- Speaker
Andrew Jones is a Partner with BDO in Brisbane. He is a member of the BDO Food and Agribusiness group, and practices as a taxation specialist. Andrew’s clients include primary producers and renewable energy generators. He also advises on the tax implications of carbon credit generation and offsetting and has been invited to speak about these issues at industry and technical forums.
Melinee Leather (QLD) – Speaker
Melinee Leather is a beef producer from Central Queensland who along with her husband Rob and their son and daughter in law run Leather Cattle Co, a family- owned beef cattle enterprise. 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 Australian Biosecurity Award in 2019, being named the Farm Biosecurity Producer of the Year.
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The Landcare Farming Program is a joint partnership between Landcare Australia and the National Landcare Network, funded by the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program to strengthen the connection between landcare and Australian agriculture.
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