Drought Preparedness Workshop
Drought Preparedness Workshops - Presentations & Fact Sheets
Drought preparedness workshops on 19 & 20 May 2026 provided practical on-farm advice and information on water management, soil health and biodiversity to help on-farm drought preparedness and resilience.
The combined workshop presentations are available for download. We heard from:
Johnny Gardner (Gardner Farms) - on Gardner Farms’ approach to drought resilience
Ben Fleay (Precision Ag) - on soil health and maximising productivity through variable rate application
Oli Madgett (GXLab) - on soil health, resilience, and opportunities for on-farm carbon (soil and trees) including baseline assessments
Steve Rafferty (Ocean2Earth) - on regenerative soil health and application of biological fertilisation
Alex Lewis and Mary Knight (Glenelg-Hopkins CMA) - on catchment scale water and biodiversity management through to on-farm water, soil and biodiversity management
Karen O'Keefe (Corangamite CMA) - on sustainable agriculture and soil monitoring
Dennis Watson (AgVic) - on sustainable irrigation and recent trends to improve feed productivity and stock and domestic water reticulation
Carl Larson (RMCG) - on an overview of the Water Preparedness to Improve Drought Resilience and Natural Resource Preparedness to Improve Drought Resilience reports as they apply to farms
Download the presentation and fact sheets (click link):
A big thank you to our catering sponsors WFI and Charles Stewart Real Estate.
This project of the Regional Drought Resilience Planning program received funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and the Victorian Government.
