Drought Preparedness Workshop

Drought Preparedness Workshops - Presentations

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

The water, soil and biodiversity Fact Sheets were made available

Download the presentation and fact sheets (click link):

Fact Sheet - Water Management

Fact Sheet - Soil Health

Fact Sheet - Biodiversity

A big thank you to our sponsors

Also Precision Ag

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