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GrazingforProfit - Yeppoon
2025-02-05 - 2025-02-11 | Queensland
What Grazing for Profit covers
GrazingforProfit® is Australia’s longest-running business program for the grazing industry. With over 8,000 graduates, it is also the most attended farm management program conducted in rural Australia.
They take a 360-Degree Approach
GrazingforProfit® takes a comprehensive view, encompassing all factors influencing your enterprise’s success. From climate variability to market fluctuations, we equip you to make informed decisions that embrace the entirety of your business environment.

Eight outcomes you can expect from GrazingforProfit®.

Financial acumen: Increase profitability, stay in control, and make informed decisions by focusing on the 3 secrets of profit, financial analysis, understanding key financial reports, optimising cash-flow, and eliminating inefficiencies.
Maximised grazing: Utilise the data-driven tools of time-controlled grazing, matching stocking rates to carrying capacity, feed budgeting, calculating graze and rest periods, and using grazing charts as a powerful management tool.
Livestock performance: Explore effective strategies to enhance reproductive health, including genetics, fertility optimisation, and planning around key dates, as well as enhancing ruminant nutrition and supplementation programs.
Ecological health: Create thriving landscapes by working with nature’s ecological systems, understanding plant succession, introducing biodiversity, encouraging biological activity, enhancing soil structure, and increasing carbon levels.
Drought resilience: Develop strategies to prepare for, manage through, and recover from drought, as well as embracing management practices that improve ground cover and water retention rates.
Focused mindset: Chart a clear path for your business and personal aspirations, setting both short and long-term goals, and clarifying your overall vision to help drive business forward.
Strategic insights: Master the balance of working ON vs. IN the business, conduct effective management meetings, navigate family succession, tackle resistance to change, and ensure everyone is on the same page.
Elevated potential: Build personal and professional skills, including time management, communication and decision-making, all while growing your networks and joining a passionate and dedicated community.

Your course facilitator is Chief of Delivery David McLean

Cost
Early Bird: $5000 (available until 5 December 2024)

Standard: $5,500
Secure your spot today!

Mental health first aid — Charleville
2025-02-10 09:00 - 2025-02-11 16:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | SQRH Building, Charleville Hospital, 72 King street, Charleville, Qld, 4470, Australia
Become a mental health first aider
About 1 in 5 Australian adults experience a common mental illness each year. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will teach you practical skills to support someone with a mental health problem. Make a real difference to people in your community.
Learn practical first aid skills

Recognise common mental health problems
Provide initial help using a practical, evidence-based action plan
Seek appropriate professional help
Respond in a crisis situation.

Standard Mental health first aid training benefits include:

Improves knowledge of mental illnesses, treatments and first aid actions.
Increases confidence in providing first aid.
Decreases stigmatising attitudes.
Increases the support provided to others.

Please note: This is a 12-hour educational course, not a therapy or support group.
Register today!
To register for Mental Health First Aid in Charleville, 10-11 February, contact Kelly Harms on 0418 345 233.
Mental Health First Aid – Charleville 2025

Millennia of Ag Innovation
2025-02-10 09:00 - 2025-02-11 19:00 | Cairns – Multiple locations, Cairns, Qld, 4868, Australia
Millennia of Ag-Innovation, the first-ever First Nations-led agtech event in Tropical North Queensland, will take place on 10-11 February 2025 in Cairns.
This event aims to provide traditional landowners access to cutting-edge agtech solutions while fostering collaboration among First Nations farmers, contemporary producers, and agtech developers. With a diverse program covering livestock, cropping, and aquaculture, the event focuses on driving innovation, resilience, and sustainable growth across agricultural sectors.
Read more and register your interest in attending →

Carbon EDGE — Emerald
2025-02-11 - 2025-02-12 | Maraboon Tavern, Corner Esmond Street and Hospital Road, Emerald, Queensland, 4720, Australia
Carbon EDGE is designed to equip red meat producers with knowledge on carbon and sustainability. The workshop will help you develop an implementable plan for your farm business to take advantage of the opportunities carbon and environmental markets may present.
Over two days, you will get an in depth understanding of:

your carbon account and emissions intensity, and how to change on-farm activities to reduce emissions
opportunities to improve productivity while reducing on-farm emissions
carbon sequestration options such as trees and soil carbon, and evaluating if they are right for your business
supply chain drivers and how to future proof your market access.

Learn more in the Carbon EDGE course outline.
Your workshop presenters
Rhonda Toms Morgan and John McLaughlin, Connect Ag.
Carbon EDGE Cost
$250 + GST for local producers, thanks to support from Kestrel Coal Resources.
To book your seat or for more information
For more information on Carbon EDGE please visit the MLA website — Carbon EDGE | Meat & Livestock Australia (mla.com.au)
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Livestock, carbon and sustainability — St George
2025-02-11 09:00 - 16:00 | St George High School Skill Centre, 2 Victoria Street, St George, Qld, 4487, Australia
St George (11 February) | 9am – 4pm | Click here to register
Wanting expert advice and your questions answered?
Join Jed Sommerfield, Extension Officer from the Department of Primary Industries Carbon Outreach Program, as he helps graziers make informed decisions about carbon sequestration and emissions reduction strategies.
Workshop Focus:

Carbon sources and sinks.
Reducing emissions on farm.
Carbon projects and the associated legalities
Market signals – is the market ready for carbon-reduced products.

Workshop details
Date and time: 11 February, 9am – 4pm. Register here
Location: St George High School Skill Centre
For more information, contact Sam Harwood (Department of Primary Industries, Charleville), 0400 256 427 sam.harwood@daf.qld.gov.au
